In this July 13, 2012 photo, Hannah Warren, 2, poses with her parents Lee Young-mi and Darryl Warren at Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul, South Korea. Hannah received a new windpipe made ...

Hannah Warren was born without a trachea, so doctors made one with stem cells. April 30, 2013— -- In a groundbreaking feat of science and surgery, a Korean toddler born without a windpipe ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

LONDON – Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, ...

Before Ciaran Finn-Lynch had the operation in London, doctors thought he could die at any moment. He was born with a windpipe just one millimetre wide and only survived his first 11 years thanks to a ...

A 36-year-old man who had tracheal cancer has received a new lab-made windpipe seeded with his own stem cells in a procedure in Sweden they call the first successful attempt of its kind, officials ...

(CBS/AP) "Oh my God. If this has not been done, how can I agree to this?" That's what cancer patient Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene said after learning that the windpipe transplant that could save his ...

Hannah Warren was born without a trachea but now has one made from plastic fibers and a stew of her own stem cells. The 2-year-old Korean Canadian has spent every day of her life in intensive care, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sonia Sein said she spent the last six years “trying to catch every breath at every moment” after extensive treatment for her severe asthma damaged her windpipe. She is breathing ...

For more than 25 years, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe. Today, she has a new one after surgeons implanted the windpipe from a dead man into her ...

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. “This technique has great promise,” said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a ...