When Archie Gupta met Stefanie Praytor, the woman she saved with an organ transplant, they shared a hug that they believe ...

In addition to being faster and less invasive than a traditional tissue biopsy, the blood test is also potentially more ...

Liver transplant is a lifesaving surgery, but a significant number of patients experience organ rejection or other ...

known as split liver transplantation, could reduce the number of deaths caused by liver failure. Here’s a real-life illustration (the names have been changed to protect privacy): Jacob was born ...

But doctors at Chicago's Northwestern Hospital said yes. "And everybody agreed that we should give him a shot," said ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

A liver transplant is an operation to remove your liver and replace it with a healthy liver from a donor. We have separate information if you are having part of your liver removed. Your doctor might ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health has introduced the nation’s first robotic living donor liver transplant at the university’s transplant center ...

producing bile and liver proteins inside the brain-dead transplant recipient, researchers report March 26 in Nature. Such a transplant could one day buy time for people waiting on the liver ...

MURRAY — Chris Krukowski waited on the liver transplant list for two years. Near the end of that time, he was spending most of his life napping, unable to do much for his family. Back then ...