This comes after a dip in the number of hearts donated to heart valve banks, with 600 hearts donated in 2021 and just 368 ...

A conservative transfusion approach after general and vascular surgery was shown to be safe vs. earlier, less restrictive ...

Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...

When it comes to end of life directives, Catholics would do well to read about the current protocols surrounding organ donation and the recent bioethics discussion surrounding brain death. Father Anth ...

A man who lived with a genetically modified pig kidney for a record 271 days had the organ removed and will return to ...

Billionaire businessman Timothy Mellon – scion of the famed American banking family – is the deep-pocketed donor who gave $130 million to pay US troops during the government shutdown. The reclusive ...

Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump. Timothy Mellon during a property tour in 1981. A grandson of former Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, Mr. Mellon was ...

A 2-year-old Barstow toddler is undergoing a heart transplant for a rare congenital heart defect. Alaia Browning was diagnosed prenatally with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, an underdeveloped left ...

At a time when registered organ donors are taking their names off registration lists, with a spike in such moves this past summer after several mistakes made national news, there is an urgent need to ...

ZANESVILLE – As Adam Burkhart recently celebrated his 43rd birthday, he couldn't help but think of those long seven months he spent in a hospital, waiting for the right heart donor. He had just turned ...

Payton Herres is only alive today thanks to the generosity of an organ donor and his family, who gave her his heart 12 years ago. The 25-year-old, from Dayton, Ohio, was born with a rare congenital ...