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

She was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis – an inherited condition that causes mucus buildup in the lungs, and often leads to ...

Frank Bough is on the road to recovery after being given a new liver. Doctors told the former Grandstand presenter he had cancer and without a transplant had only weeks to live. Bough, 68 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In contrast to the kidney or the heart, the function of the liver in the body is far more complicated, thus making liver transplant much more difficult. Xenotransplant specialist Dr. Shimul Shah ...

He said: "I lost my kidney transplant several years ago. I now undergo dialysis three times a week just to stay alive. These attacks haven’t just hurt emotionally. They’ve made that fight harder." ...

According to the CDC, fewer than 10 people die annually from rabies in the U.S. And it happening due to organ transplants is very rare, but not unheard of; in 2013, a patient who received a kidney ...

A Michigan resident has died of rabies after apparently undergoing an organ transplant ... "In addition to the organ donor’s kidney, doctors implanted corneal grafts from the donor’s eyes ...

What Is a Fecal Transplant? A fecal transplant is a procedure that places the stool of a healthy person into the colon of someone who’s ill. Your doctor may call it bacteriotherapy. A fecal ...