2 cases demonstrate efficacy of surgery, but tissue rejection must be monitored, reports say
3 new reports raise question of how long a heart must stop beating before death is certain
Black patients conferred better outcomes; organ pool increase cut wait time to transplant
Even recipients with hepatitis C had good five-year survival rates, study finds
80% of patients receiving rituximab able to get new organ, and treatment cost less
A new test makes life easier for heart transplant patients.
A new drug for hepatitis C proves to be just what patients who have failed other treatments have been waiting for.
Medicine's next big thing: doctors are growing organs in the lab. Soon, they could even be printing them. Watch this video to learn about this cutting-edge technology.