SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A woman whose natural voice could have been silenced forever because of vocal cord damage is able to talk again after undergoing a rare voice box transplant. Brenda Charett Jensen ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A California woman who couldn't speak for more than a decade has her voice back. She's only the second person in the world to get a voice box transplant. You can hear Brenda ...

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 ...

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When advanced throat cancers require removal of the entire voice box, patients can often regain the ability to speak by implanting surgical devices. But these prosthetic voice boxes are expensive, ...

Grant Hasse was born with two very rare conditions - one that's usually fatal, the other that should have left him unable to talk. But at almost 4 years old, he's a healthy bundle of energy after ...

A woman whose natural voice could have been silenced forever because of vocal cord damage is able to talk again after undergoing a rare voice box transplant. Brenda Charett Jensen, 52, reunited ...

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 ...