Tracheotomy refers to the opening or incision made during a medical procedure to aid breathing, called a tracheostomy. Many people use these terms interchangeably. When used as a synonym for ...

Val Kilmer is opening up about his health. While promoting his new film Paydirt, the Top Gun actor, 60, spoke about having a tracheotomy necessitated by his two-year battle with throat cancer. The ...

An immigrant grandmother was left suffering severe memory loss and forced to breathe through a hole in her neck following a ...

"I'm doing great," he shared. "I feel a lot better than I sound." The star is back at work and will appear in "Paydirt," which comes out on Friday. While he's played a number of iconic characters, ...

"I'm doing great, I feel a lot better than I sound." Val Kilmer is opening up about some of the challenges he faces after he underwent a tracheotomy. While appearing on "Good Morning America," the ...

Surgically opening the windpipe, or trachea, within the first seven days of the start of mechanical ventilation decreases the time patients spend on ventilators, shortens their ICU stay and lowers ...

After the actor was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015, he was treated with chemotherapy, radiation and a tracheotomy to help him breathe. Kilmer, 60, recently appeared on the US Today show, where ...

Patients who undergo tracheotomy should be carefully monitored for a while after surgery, say Turkish researchers. Surgeons should be aware of the significant increases in thyroid hormones that can ...

Adult ICU patients who received tracheotomy six to eight days vs. 13 to 15 days after mechanical ventilation did not have a significant reduction in the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia, ...

TRACHEOTOMY is performed at every age of life. The indications for tracheotomy vary considerably in childhood from those in adult life. In a small child the operation requires a more meticulous ...

A Minnesota father was enjoying his time off work by mountain biking the popular Cuyuna Lakes Mountain Bike Trails when he took a serious fall and fell down a ravine. By chance, an off-duty emergency ...

Val Kilmer likens acting after throat cancer changed his voice to learning a new language. “It’s just like any other language or dialect,” he said during an interview Monday on “Good Morning America.” ...