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Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart in September.
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A novel program in Tennessee aims to interest more Black and other minority medical students in organ transplants, to help ease troubling disparities.
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The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has reached the one-month mark and a hospital video shows he's working hard to recover.
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The move is widely considered the first step in restructuring Jackson Health’s cardiac care after it was closed down for five months this year.
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The genetically modified kidney worked properly the first month before showing subtle signs that rejection was forming. But doctors say the kidney's function bounced back with simple medication changes.
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A little-noticed provision of sweeping legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration would make it easier to fly human organs from donor to recipient.
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The procedures are being developed because the demand for human organs for clinical transplantation far exceeds the supply. Also, a look at a research trial of a brain hemorrhage treatment.
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It's all highly experimental, but manufacturer Miromatrix is making plans for first-step human testing — an experiment outside a patient's body, to see how well a bioengineered liver can filter blood.
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Amber Morgan and Tom Johnson met for the first time Saturday, four years after he received a heart transplanted from the body of Andreona Williams, who was 20 when she died from asthma complications.
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Many transplant centers require people with alcohol-related liver disease to remain sober for half a year, before becoming eligible for the waiting list for a liver. But this thinking may be changing.