A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the ...

At 37, the former bakery manager survives as a living Venn diagram of America’s pandemic ... a complex hospitalization resulting in a kidney transplant and an inexplicable lung condition ...

He said Northwell first tapped him to help lead the program about four years ago. About a year and a half ago, he moved from ...

Rep. Peoples-Stokes introduced the bipartisan HEART Act to repeal the state ban on registering at multiple transplant centers ...

Kateryna Mamedova had the chance to embrace the transplant patient who received her late husband’s heart -- and to hear his ...

When former Ukrainian soldier Aslan Mamedov was declared brain dead following a car accident in 2024, his wife honored his wishes to donate his organs to save others' lives. Mamedov's heart was ...

A pediatric heart transplant had never been carried out on Long Island. Until last Friday. Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Hospital successfully completed the first procedure on the island ...

In a first-of-its-kind surgery for Long Island, the Northwell Health Transplant Institute performed a successful three-organ ...

Nearly 15 years ago, when I was just 11 years-old, I had a heart transplant. The heart I was born with was completely removed from my body and as per the words of my brutally honest yet legendary ...

Ava was born with multiple congenital heart defects, which resulted in her needing a heart transplant. For over 200 days, she stayed in the hospital waiting for a suitable donor heart to become ...

The mortality rate associated with valve replacement is “worse than the mortality of heart transplant.” That’s why Douglas Overbey, MD, MPH, from the Duke University Medical Center in Durham ...