Absent mitigation strategies, a mere 7% increase in U.S. kidney transplant candidates could prolong the wait list by nearly ...

Doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world’s first living mitral valve replacement, saving three lives in North Carolina.

The investigation was opened shortly after the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported on the program’s suspension in September 2024 ...

It's early days for xenotransplantation, but eGenesis, Eledon, United Therapeutics and more are working to develop solutions ...

Pollard, who recently received a new heart, was surprised with the honor at a fundraiser Saturday for he and his wife's ...

In July 2009, Judy Meikle, at age 57 and of Winnetka, Ill., received the heart of Benjamin Kopp, a 21-year-old Army Ranger ...

People with Down syndrome are denied organ transplants. Charlotte Woodward received one and she wants others to have the same ...

Voorhees University Head Basketball Coach James Williams knew he needed to take his health more seriously when he passed out during a team practice last year.“T ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) has a single moving part: a levitated rotor held in place by magnets. As the name ...

and I officially enlisted for a heart transplant. Treatment to my original heart was no longer working and doctors said it was my only option. On February 5, 2021, at 46 years old, I got the call ...

With her son on the heart transplant waiting list, Fee said she was anxious during what turned out to be 21 months before Marshall got the transplant. She expected that the call notifying them ...