Melony Hunter, a 5-year-old girl, is preparing for surgery to address a serious heart condition. Her parents are seeking ...

Academics found that some children in need of a kidney transplant are facing inequalities in their care. Black children are less likely to be put on the transplant waiting list, as are those from more ...

Mixed martial artist Ben Askren underwent a double lung transplant a month after he was hospitalized with severe pneumonia, ...

A Victory for Disability Rights in Healthcare The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Charlotte Woodward ...

Following a heart transplant, patients must undergo surgical biopsies so that clinicians can monitor for signs of organ rejection. A new study shows the promise of a biomarker that could allow doctors ...

The surgeries and medications began to exacerbate heart failure, so it was determined that a heart transplant was the long-term outcome.” Tennis began the testing and workups needed for a heart ...

The patient’s bad heart was pulled underneath his breastbone and through his abdomen, with the transplanted heart going up ...

The patient, a 45-year-old man hospitalized for months with severe heart failure, became the first in the United States to ...

Key technological advances have increased the number of patients receiving hearts from donation after circulatory death (DCD) ...

Three men who had never met came together in the Sharp Memorial Hospital transplant unit and left with new hearts and lifelong friendship.

Dick Albert was a bricklayer by trade. “I worked 12 hour shifts, 14 days in a row, building furnaces at Erie Mining,” he ...

Cassandra Shumpert is a beacon in her community. For decades she worked as a hairstylist and touched the hair and heart of ...