organ transplant

A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes - and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.

HOLLIS, Maine (AP) -- A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes - and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor....

Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world's first synthetic organ transplant, using an artificial windpipe coated in stem cells.

(MedPage Today) -- Undergoing a thoracic organ transplant at night rather than during the daytime does not appear to increase a patient's risk of dying within a year, a retrospective registry study showed.

(MedPage Today) -- After a rare, high-profile case of HIV transmission through organ transplant, nearly a third of surgeons changed their practice, researchers reported.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A prominent organ-transplant hospital wasn't to blame for the death of a man who became riddled with cancer after getting a kidney from a donor who unknowingly had uterine cancer, jurors found Friday....

A celebrity like Apple CEO Steve Jobs scores a rare organ transplant and the world wonders: Did he game the system?

The rich have plenty of advantages that others don't. But winning the "transplant lottery" involves more than the size of your wallet - and true medical need....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators are exploring whether organ transplant drugs made by Roche and Novartis increase the risk of an often-fatal neurological disease....