A critically ill 58-year-old Iraqi patient with just 15% heart function and multi-organ failure recovered after a high-risk ...

"Hope Takes Flight brings a very serious subject to discussion. Iif I hadn't got my new heart, I wouldn't be able to tell you ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — When it comes organ donations, every second counts. However, with 113,000 people waiting across the nation - and 644 in Nevada - it can be a while before you get that ...

A Maryland man is making slow but steady progress more than a month after getting a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. The operation at the University of Maryland Medical Center was the ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Every 18 hours someone in New York dies waiting for an organ transplant. Religious concerns, language barriers and the unappealing subject of mortality make our area last in ...

AWARENESS AROUND ORGAN DONATIONS AFTER LEARNING THEIR FOUR YEAR OLD SON WILL NEED HIS SECOND HEART TRANSPLANT. WESH TWO BREVARD COUNTY REPORTER MEGAN MORIARTY SPOKE WITH THE FAMILY ABOUT THIS ONGOING ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan may have found a way to improve heart transplant outcomes by expanding the time an organ can be preserved outside the body. Dr. Paul Tang and his team found ...

MISSION, Kan., Nov. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (Family Features) Heart health is about more than just the heart itself. It’s a two-way street between the heart and the rest of the body. However, ...

Surgeons at Duke University have resuscitated a 'dead' heart on the operating table after it stopped beating for more than five minutes. The organ was later transplanted into the chest of a ...

Doctors at NYU Langone Health have taken another step toward making pig organs available for transplant, by successfully implanting pig hearts into two newly deceased people. Brain-dead patients can ...

June 7, 2006 — -- Two weeks ago in the United Kingdom, a man in his late 50s received a new heart -- a heart that was still beating while waiting to be transplanted. The operation, at Papworth ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...