“I can’t do this anymore,” Sonia Sein told herself, her family and her doctor. For six years, she had endured a tube inserted in her windpipe, or trachea, to keep her alive, but her discomfort and ...

The first successful direct transplant of a trachea is a medical milestone that could help thousands of people with airways damaged by ventilators and other causes. Sonia Sein, outside her Bronx home, ...