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 ...

Delayza Diaz didn’t use her voice for the first time until she was 9 years old. For most of her life, she has communicated by vibrating the inner lining of her cheeks to form words, a process called ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vocal fold (or vocal cord) paralysis occurs when your vocal folds, the two bands of tissue in your larynx (voice box), stop moving. Usually, this occurs because one or both of the nerves that go to ...

A person may want to change their voice for various reasons. Tips such as vocal exercises, extra care of vocal cords, or surgery may help. A person can take steps if they wish to change their voice, ...