A nine-year-old boy whose campaigning helped bring about changes to Northern Ireland's organ donation rules has received a ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they've completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

The hospital introduced a procedure designed to better preserve donor hearts and improve patient recovery.

Dylan and Catrin Green fear baby Macs has days to live and say he urgently needs a 'Berlin heart'.

Two university hospitals are pioneering new ways to expand lifesaving heart transplants for adults and babies — advances that could help recover would-be heart donations that too often go unused. The ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

Heart transplant surgeon Raymond Lee, MD, explains what patients can expect after a heart transplant—including how long the heart will last. The average lifespan of a transplanted heart is about 10 ...

Hershey Medical Center has performed its first heart transplant using a new cardiac preservation technology that keeps donor ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two months ago at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, surgeons removed a transplanted heart from a patient who had died and re-transplanted it in another recipient.

A Belfast schoolboy has received a heart transplant after an eight-year wait for a suitable donor. Nine-year-old Dáithí Mac ...