One of every three donated kidneys never gets transplanted. CBS News explores why a growing number are being discarded.

Patterson is a registered nurse and executive director of a consulting firm that supports OPTN contracts.

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

Reports show more than 100,000 people, including children, are currently waiting for an organ transplant here in the United ...

Looney's transplant was part of a larger effort to provide genetically engineered pig organs to help solve the human organ shortage. A handful of other patients have received pig kidneys and hearts.

Laura Epstein’s new company is delivering lifesaving kidneys and hearts to those most in need faster than ever.

Ann Sidesinger could barely walk 10 feet. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis had made her lungs thick and stiff. Even with an ...

One of every three donated kidneys never gets transplanted. CBS News explores why a growing number are being discarded.

After years on the waitlist for an organ transplant, she began to develop problems associated with chronic dependence on dialysis. Without a donor match, she would die – but the complications ...

More than 90,000 people in the United States are on the waitlist to receive a kidney transplant, according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, accounting for the vast ...