The story of transplants has always been one of altruism. After all, organs can be neither sold nor purchased. They can only ...

There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes ...

There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was considered experimental only a half-century ago. Until just the past ...

After his death, the research team learnt that the transplanted organ was infected with a pig herpesvirus that had not been detected by tests 1. But even a few weeks is a long time for an animal ...

The revelation has shocked this South American nation and plunged its health network, a source of national pride, into crisis ... private laboratory that tests organ donors for HIV.

In an effort to address its ongoing organ donor shortage crisis, Japan has started breeding the first pigs genetically engineered for human organ transplants. This significant success, announced ...