The organs will come from genetically modified pigs in the hopes of helping the thousands of Americans waiting for transplants. Also in the news: the world's smallest heart pump, nanoplastics in the ...

Valance Sams Sr. believes that he has experienced "a miracle." Sams, now 46, underwent a triple organ transplant in the spring of 2023, making him one of fewer than 50 people in the United States to ...

A wife honoured her husband’s last wish by making an important call before seeing his body, leading to his body donation for ...

Cancer, heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases, obesity and diabetes, infectious diseases and organ transplantation. All ...

In a nutshell Americans judge transplant candidates based on perceived personal responsibility, with the least support given ...

At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story. Sixteen hours into a transplant ...

An increase in organ donors from 0.5% of all deaths to 1% could eliminate transplant waiting lists if more people knew about this option, a top doctor has estimated. Starting on June 17 ...

Martinez's surgery marks the first time that a simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant was performed in New Mexico using organs from an out-of-state donor, Larrieux said. Larrieux flew April 29 on ...

All that ended April 29 when Martinez, 31, received an unusual double transplant that gave him a new kidney and pancreas, curing him of the disease that had dominated his life since childhood.

Mayo Clinic/YouTube A 30-year-old Michigan man has finally received a life-changing face transplant after attempting suicide 11 years ago. In the early hours of March 5, 2014, Derek Pfaff was ...