One of every three donated kidneys never gets transplanted. CBS News explores why a growing number are being discarded.

In the United States more than 100,000 people are currently waiting on lifesaving organ transplants. And while transplants and recoveries have reached record highs in recent years, so has the number ...

Laura Epstein’s new company is delivering lifesaving kidneys and hearts to those most in need faster than ever.

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

Never before had anyone transplanted a frozen organ into a large animal. There was so much that could go wrong. “I think there is about a 50 percent chance that it will work,” Korkut Uygun ...

Tennessee has become the fourth state to prohibit insurance companies from funding organ transplants if the body parts come ...

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

April is Donate Life Month, and while Colorado has one of the highest rates of organ donors in the country, with 62% of ...

One of every three donated kidneys never gets transplanted. CBS News explores why a growing number are being discarded.

After years on the waitlist for an organ transplant, she began to develop problems associated with chronic dependence on dialysis. Without a donor match, she would die – but the complications ...

More than 90,000 people in the United States are on the waitlist to receive a kidney transplant, according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, accounting for the vast ...