Researchers at WPI say they developed a flexible optical fiber that could destroy hard-to-reach tumors in the larynx.

An international research team said Feb. 15 it found a fossil of a dinosaur larynx bone, a world-first discovery that could help solve the mystery of what dinosaurs sounded like. So far, the study ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have developed a flexible optical fiber that can be threaded through a ...

WPI researchers develop flexible optical fiber technology to improve and expand outpatient laser surgery for tumors in the ...

A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one. Transplants of the so-called voice box are extremely ...

On Thursday morning, Marty Kedian did something that was beyond his abilities for years: He sat at a table with his wife and friends and had a conversation. Diagnosed with larynx cancer a decade ago, ...

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PHOENIX, Ariz. — On Feb. 29, Mayo Clinic marked a milestone: its first larynx transplant. It is only the third transplant of its kind in the United States and the first done on a patient with cancer.

NEWBURYPORT - A Haverhill man spent a decade barely able to speak following a partial laryngectomy to battle cancer. He can now speak thanks to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He became just the third ...

A surgical team in California on Thursday announced they had done something spectacular: They replaced the larynx of a 52-year-old woman who hadn't been able to speak or breathe on her own for more ...

Organ loss due to late-stage cancer is a heavy burden on both the patient and the health care system. Total laryngectomy in patients with advanced laryngeal or hypopharyngeal carcinoma is lifesaving, ...