Organ donation following medical assistance in dying (MAiD), also known as euthanasia, is a relatively new practice both in ...

A Chinese team has achieved a world first with a pig liver graft that functioned in a living recipient for more than a month, ...

A man suffering from liver cancer in China was given the organ from a swine and lived for more than 170 days, including a good five weeks without any complications ...

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, improving the ...

A health insurance dispute is preventing a North Carolina man from getting a cancer drug his doctors say is necessary.

The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...

No cause of death has been determined for actor Michelle Trachtenberg, whose body was found on Wednesday at her Upper West Side home, according to the New York City chief medical examiner’s office. A ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the ...

Patients of this operation are eventually freed from tqking strong anti-rejection meds. MIAMI — Kimberly Lindsey marvels that her 3-year-old son Merrick doesn’t need to take 10 different medicines ...

PARKVILLE, Mo. — Almost a year after the first living liver transplant in Kansas, the recipient is celebrating a new lease on life following a second surgery. Man celebrates new life after first ...

The surgery also brings new hope for patients with stage 4 colorectal cancer who have seen it spread to their liver. Kelli Podrez was higher on the transplant list but agreed to share the liver with ...