HEALTH Pig kidney still functioning in brain-dead man 6 weeks after transplant surgery: ‘Extremely encouraging’ Doctors are hopeful that xenotransplantation could one day be possible in live ...

Guy Alexandre, transplant surgeon who saw death differently, dies at 89. He stirred outrage in the early 1960s with transplants from ‘brain-dead’ donors.

In the film, Stone’s character, Bella Baxter, receives a brain transplant from her surviving unborn child after killing herself. The surgery is performed by experimental scientist Dr Godwin Baxter ...

He is one of five people who have undergone this procedure at Penn Medicine—the center of the world's most advanced knowledge ...

Brain transplants are a long way from being feasible, and even if the technical challenges could be overcome, there are ethical issues to grapple with.

Darryl Young, 61, suffered irreversible brain damage and was left in a vegetative state after a botched heart transplant procedure at New Jersey's Newark Beth Israel hospital in 2018, according to ...

While avoiding spreading the breastbone, which aids in recovery, Houston doctors recently performed the first fully robotic ...

A 41-year-old man died in a traffic accident. His family has agreed to donate his organs to save the lives of many seriously ...

"In hindsight, the brain tumor surgery was harder than the heart transplant," she said. She got a new heart two weeks later Dudas said she was cleared to get back on the transplant list 10 days ...

Back home, Dr. Barnard continued transplant research while practicing heart surgery and running a family. (With two children, he was best known in South Africa, until last week, as the father of a ...

Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center successfully performed a fully robotic heart transplant on an adult patient – ...