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 ...

If the voice is the primary expression of personality, sarcasm and profanity are essential to Sonya Sotinsky’s.

B O S T O N, May 31 -- Twenty years ago, Timothy Heidler was in a motorcycle accident that left him unable to speak. But the first successful larynx surgery in the United States has restored his voice ...

A team of doctors at a children’s hospital in Memphis have successfully performed the world’s first voice box reconstruction and changed a little boy’s life. Two-year-old Cooper Kilburn from ...

When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue and voice box to save her life from the cancer that had invaded her mouth, Sonya Sotinsky sat down with a microphone to record herself saying the ...

Marty Kedian, left, and his wife, Gina DeFeudis. Kedian lost the ability to speak because of a rare form of laryngeal cancer. With a voice box transplant, he's now regained that function. “It’s such a ...

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (WFXT/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A man regained his voice after a historic surgery. A Massachusetts man has been dealing with a rare form of cancer of the voice box. He was faced ...

A thyroplasty is a surgical procedure to help or change a person’s voice. Different types of thyroplasty are available as treatments for several voice conditions or as part of gender affirming surgery ...