After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- After a rare six-part transplant at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, six people are bonded by three kidneys. On Tuesday, they sat down together to talk about the gift they ...

Scientists have taken a decisive step toward ending one of transplant medicine’s most stubborn bottlenecks: the need to match donor organs to a recipient’s blood type. By chemically reengineering a ...

Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano’s combination of heart and ...

No sooner did the recipient of her kidney donation open her envelope and read her name aloud than Olivia Miller began welling up in tears. Miller made a beeline for the woman, Esmerelda Guerrero, whom ...

We’ve all got organs that work tirelessly to keep us alive, and others that we can’t imagine living without. But did you know that some of the parts of our body, while important for various functions, ...