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Transplants April 11, 2016

Surgery set for teacher who volunteered to donate kidney to student

A Wisconsin teacher who surprised the family of one of her student’s by volunteering to donate a kidney will soon make good on her promise, as the surgery has been set for April 27.

Transplants April 11, 2016

Texas couple speaks out after failed uterus transplant

Less than two weeks after the Cleveland Clinic performed the nation’s first uterus transplant, surgeons at the hospital revealed Friday that the organ had to be removed due to a fungal infection.

Transplants April 11, 2016

Cleveland Clinic says first uterus transplant in US fails

The Cleveland Clinic says the nation's first uterus transplant has failed.

Transplants March 24, 2016

Most people would donate a kidney— especially for money

People might be more willing to donate a kidney if they were paid for it, according to a new survey.

Transplants March 24, 2016

3-way kidney swap saves New York woman's life

Thirty-five years ago, Tom Danz and his wife, Angela, promised to have and to hold each other for better or for worse.

Transplants March 18, 2016

Family hears infant son's donated heart beat inside 2-year-old boy

A grieving Georgia mother heard her son’s heart beat again in the chest of the 2-year-old boy who received his donated heart.

Transplants March 14, 2016

Why do uterus transplants fail?

The first transplanted uterus in the United States has been removed just weeks after the procedure, and only a handful of these operations have been performed successfully in other countries.

VISION AND HEARING March 11, 2016

Surgeons use pig's cornea to save teen's vision

Doctors in China were able to save a teen’s vision by using part of a pig’s eye in a rare transplant.

Transplants March 10, 2016

Good match not always needed for living donor kidney transplant

Transplanting a mismatched kidney from a living donor may lower the risk of death more than not doing a transplant at all, according to a new study that could open the door to more operations.

Transplants February 19, 2016

Jury rules doctors who transplanted diseased kidney not negligent

BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts jury has found that several doctors who transplanted a diseased kidney from a deceased homeless man into a patient were not negligent in his death.

Transplants February 18, 2016

Gut bacteria may influence alcoholics' liver damage

Differences among alcoholics in who gets severe liver damage and who doesn't might be partly due to differences in their gut microbes, suggests a new study using mice and people.