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Janet Hong, 56, is looking for a living donor for a liver transplant. The criteria for a suitable donor are good health, between the ages of 16 and 60, a …

A Maryland woman is backing a bill aimed at increasing the number of living organ donors. Lindsay Gutierrez before being released from Hopkins Hospital after undergoing a liver transplant in …

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A young woman from Montgomery County is fighting desperately for her life: She needs a lung transplant but most hospitals are turning her down. Following tubing to …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pig kidney transplants After just 47 days, surgeons were forced to remove the slowly failing organ, forcing the patient back onto dialysis. Lisa Pisano is the second …

DIXON — Julie and Scott Helfrich are no different from any other couple who's been together a long time. Married for more than 40 years, they've been by each other's …

A dying woman was rejected by her partner for a partial liver transplant because she had been drinking alcohol whilst on the waiting list. Amanda Husk, 36, was on life …

It all started with a minor cough when Shannon was in her final year of graduate school at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “The cough turned out to be pneumonia …

Dr. Jeffrey Stern, assistant professor of surgery at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine, and Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the New York University Langone Transplant Institute, prepare a …

In an unprecedented procedure, a terminally ill patient received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also became the first patient in the world to be surgically implanted with a mechanical …

Woman becomes first person to receive both pig kidney transplant and heart pump A woman with life-threatening heart and kidney disease has become the second person in history to receive …