After nearly two decades of life-threatening illness, repeated complications, and organ failure, 33-year-old Briana Dery of ...

The procedure is considered one of the most complex in modern medicine, in part because intestinal transplants themselves are ...

A new type of cell therapy shows promise as the first treatment for advanced liver disease, following results from a clinical trial. Patients with the condition who were treated with the cell therapy ...

After being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis-related diabetes, Jasmine Jones's liver and kidneys began to fail, leading to a rare and complicated quadruple transplant.

A new type of cell therapy which could offer “real hope” to patients with advanced liver disease has been welcomed by a liver charity. Researchers said results from a clinical trial suggest that the ...

Organ and cell transplants are potentially life-saving treatments for a variety of medical conditions, but their success depends on how long the transplanted cells or tissues can survive in their new ...

“It had been done, but it had always failed,” said Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine. “When you took out the lungs, the cancer cells would spread to the rest of the body ...

The heart wants what the heart wants … regardless of whose chest it beats within. Recent research has found further correlation between organ transplant surgery and personality changes. In a study ...

Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine factor infertility, occurs when a woman is born without a uterus, has had to ...

The transplant of two new lungs, a kidney and a liver into a single patient over 36 hours “continues to be at the edge of ...

The criminal case over an overseas organ transplant underscores the chronic shortage of available organs in Japan and the lengths and risks Japanese patients will take to avoid the waiting list here.