Luca was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease. He was added to the waitlist for a deceased donor transplant seven months ago.

Ken Long, 54, has claimed he was denied a heart transplant at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati because he refused to take a ...

Colorado couple Ashley and Jimmy Cleverly were living a picture-perfect life, until a diagnosis left Jimmy in need of a ...

Phoenix Children's is more than one hospital. It is a health system for kids with 50 locations in the Valley, including 2 ...

Key TakeawaysKidney transplant recipients who’ve never been exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus but receive organs from a donor ...

Despite being a pioneer in organ transplants in the region, Malaysia has fallen behind. This lag is evident in organ pledges ...

For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

Desiree Teubert and Kyle Geisler of New Auburn are in a situation no parent ever wants to face. They are waiting for a kidney ...

Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...

A schoolgirl aged 14 who was badly disfigured in a fire has volunteered to undergo the world's first full face transplant. The groundbreaking surgery involves removing the face from a four-hour ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first ... testing pig kidney transplants in people with kidney failure, marking a major step forward in cross-species transplantation.

Despite the dramatic decline in the incidence of fatal infection that marred the early successes of kidney transplantation ... or bypass of immune defenses. First-line defenses are altered ...