The Ochsner Transplant Institute in New Orleans stands as a national leader in organ transplant surgery. Since 1984, ...

Caroline Laubach was fighting for her life while she waited for a new heart to replace the failing one she was born with. It’s a far cry from the Laubach who will cross the finish line at Gift of Life ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan Health Transplant Center broke the state’s record for completing the most liver ...

The change risks introducing chaos and litigation into a system that thrives on coordination and trust. To run a successful ...

Diabetes mellitus is most commonly known as diabetes, which is a disease that affects how the body uses glucose or blood ...

The hospital authority has initiated the admission of liver patients under the indoor patient department (IPD), said a BMU press release today (15 April) ...

He passed away in 2011, even after receiving a combined liver and pancreas transplant. This was an individual who, like other prominent people struck with this disease, had all the necessary ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a ...

assistant professor of Surgery in the Division of Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation. “We also appreciated knowing where the kidney was during transport and knowing the organ temperature.” ...

Australian researchers are poised to become the first in the world to take pancreatic islet cells from genetically modified pigs and transplant them into human patients. Their goal: To cure type 1 ...

Our new method allows us to go one step beyond cancer diagnosis by revealing which subtypes of pancreatic cancer cells make up a tumor. The more we know about which cells are present, the better ...