The family of a man who died because a Florida surgeon removed his liver instead of his spleen is suing, saying hospital staff took part in a cover-up to hide the true cause of their loved one’s death ...
Successful transplants have increased in Maine and across the nation over the past five years as awareness grows and the ...
Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other ...
According to the National Kidney Foundation, 123,000 Americans are on that waitlist. More than a 100,000 of those waiting ...
Diseased organs assessed during hospital autopsies shouldn’t be used to determine reference values because the disease can actually affect the weight of an organ. Furthermore, the number of autopsies ...
LIVER, HEART, KIDNEY, spleen, and pancreas probably aren’t foods you eat very often, if ever. You may have heard that these organ meats are high in iron, B vitamins, protein, and other nutrients ...
Towana Looney, an Alabama woman who received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant, has surpassed two months post-surgery, ...
Tissue processing advance can label proteins at the level of individual cells across whole, intact rodent brains and other large samples just as fast and uniformly as in dissociated single cells.
Demand’s 500th transplanted organ, being announced today, is emblematic of the gaps and inefficiencies in the current transplant system that the organ recovery, technology and logistics company is ...
An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two ...