At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never ...

Crossmatch tests of the prospective kidney-transplant donor's lymphocytes ... one of the six grafts that survived the immediate post-transplant period was subsequently rejected at four months ...

By Allison Detzel While José Alfredo Pacheco, a dialysis patient, desperately waits for a lifesaving kidney transplant in Illinois, his donor and brother, José Gregorio González, is being held ...

Similar to people with kidney disease, transplant recipients should only consider acetaminophen to manage post-operative pain symptoms. Again, best practices include using the lowest dose possible ...

That was a lot to cope with.'" After a challenging recovery, Richelle has now made it past the critical first 12 months post-transplant and is embracing life in her community at Taree on the New ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint Wednesday that pig livers might eventually be ...

A kidney transplant patient has died in Ohio after ... rabies,” Michigan DHHS spokesperson Lynn Sutfin told USA TODAY. “Post exposure preventive care, if appropriate, has been provided.” ...

This leads to long-term damage, including scarring and shrinking of kidney tissue. Studies show that most kidney transplant patients will experience signs of kidney damage from these medications ...

Andrew Ross is the first pediatric patient at Texas Children's Hospital with active cancer to be considered for and undergo a kidney transplant. (Courtesy Ross family) Andrew Ross (left ...