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

Connecticut saw a record number of deceased organ donors with 166, officials said, and some 45% of Connecticut adults are ...

Director of Pediatric Heart Transplant at Children's National. The heart was prepped for surgery and implanted all within a four hour window. Desai performed the more than 12 hour operation on Jack.

A team at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has performed the world’s first heart transplant with zero ischemic time ...

The titanium heart, invented by Daniel Timms, uses magnetic levitation technology with a single rotating disc to pump blood.

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

NEW YORK CITY (WCBS/NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A single heart transplant saved the lives of three ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the ... the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also ...

Annette Tremlin, 68, who was one of the first people in the country to receive a non-beating heart transplant in June 2015, described how the surgery had allowed her to watch her grandchildren ...

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.

WASHINGTON — On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or ...

Heart transplant patients who underwent a pioneering form of surgery have reunited with the medics who saved their lives to mark the 10th anniversary of the first operation of its kind.