transplants

Doctors said the 58-year-old patient wasn’t eligible for a traditional heart transplant. While the next few weeks will be critical, doctors were thrilled at his early response to the genetically modified pig organ.

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.

In a step toward animal-human transplants, researchers plan to track the organ's performance for a second month.

Congress has approved legislation that would allow HHS to expand competition for contracts related to the network that matches donor organs with patients waiting for transplants.

Donation after circulatory death, a method long used to recover other organs but not more fragile hearts, could allow possibly thousands more patients a chance at a lifesaving transplant — expanding the number of donor hearts by 30%.

According to the hospital, a healthy person donates part of the liver to a patient with a poorly functioning liver. The rest of the donor’s liver will regrow close to full size and capacity a few months after surgery.

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.

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.

The war has hammered Ukraine's health care budget, leaving some patients without access to care. U.S. hospitals are helping to fill the gap.

Evusheld, which the FDA approved for emergency use, offers about six months of protection if administered before a patient is exposed to the virus, Gov. Ron DeSantis says.