transplants

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.

Miami fashion designer René Ruiz joined Jackson Health to speak about his recent philanthropic endeavor: custom-made hospital gowns for patients recovering from transplant surgery.

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.

The vaccines haven't proved very effective for people living with organ transplants. But getting a third dose of the mRNA vaccines gave a big bump in antibody levels in a new study.

Six challenges have been filed alleging that health systems could get shut out of the market and quality of care could be harmed.

A medical team in New York City says it has performed the first complete surgical transplant of a trachea. These kinds of transplants are one of the last big transplant challenges.