Researchers at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation ...

Caroline Laubach was fighting for her life while she waited for a new heart to replace the failing one she was born with. It’s a far cry from the Laubach who will cross the finish line at Gift of Life ...

Combining two different kinds of signals could help engineers build prosthetic limbs that better reproduce natural movements, according to a new study. A combination of electromyography and force ...

A surgical team at Virginia Commonwealth University recently performed the first fully robotic liver transplantation in the ...

Thirteen years ago, one infant received a heart transplant from another infant. During National Donate Life Month, their ...

Dubai: A 13-month-old boy with a rare health condition has received Dubai’s first paediatric liver transplant, a milestone ...

Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. He and her doctors decided it would be less risky to remove the pig's kidney than to try saving it. "We did the safe thing ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains a distant goal, but doctors took some hope since the pig kidney did its blood-filtering work ...

CHICAGO -- Bulls guard Lonzo Ball got to meet the family of the man who donated the knee cartilage he received in a transplant two years ago. Ball signed jerseys and took pictures before Wednesday ...

In an advancement for organ transplantation in Pakistan, Dow University Hospital has successfully conducted its 190th liver transplant under the guidance of international medical experts.