A close friend of mine recently received an organ transplant, and another acquaintance is considering becoming a living donor ...

After successfully performing his heart transplant surgery, Toronto General Hospital cardiologist Gordon Ross assured patient David Wychman that the five-second rule "totally applies" to internal ...

Each day that Steve Soltys gets to roughhouse with his grandsons, or go to a family picnic, or get home from work still full of energy, he is thankful to the person who made that possible. Soltys, ...

UAB researchers discover that the immune system consistently targets the same region of mismatched HLA proteins after organ ...

James Emmanuel received a life-saving kidney from his daughter through a transplant performed with the help of a skilled ...

Ben Zion Cohen Mirkov and Olga Cohen Mirkov welcomed what they thought was a healthy baby boy. "It's not the first boy that I have, so I feel that something is strange," Olga Cohen Mirkov said.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh gave transplant recipients certain immune cells from their organ donors. It ...

MANHASSET, NY -- Doctors at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York performed a rare three-organ transplant procedure all in one. Our sister station WABC-TV spoke to the 47-year-old ...

My phone rang at 2 am. I was mostly awake; I never really sleep on call. As I rubbed my eyes, I tried to focus on the voice ...

In 1990, Joseph Murray and E. Donnall Thomas shared the Nobel Prize for their work in organ and bone marrow transplantation [ ...

The incidence of kidney disease in South Texas is not just higher than the national average. South Texas and the Rio Grande ...