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

As thousands of people await a lifesaving heart, scientists are racing to buy them more time. A promising advance from scientists in Germany offers a potential solution.

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 ...

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

"This is an important experiment, which opens up a different path to what has been tried so far in both vital organs (heart ... liver until a human liver can be obtained for the definitive transplant.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.