organ transplants

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an…

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo signed two bills related to transgender rights and vetoed another, bucking trends from other Republican…

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said it will attempt to break up the network that runs the nation’s organ transplant system as part of a broader modernization…

LONDON (AP) — A senior Nigerian politician was on trial in London on Tuesday for allegedly exploiting a street trader by transporting him to the U.K. to donate a kidney in…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - AP Medical Writer EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Too many Americans are missing out on a cure for hepatitis C, and a study underway in a…

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who got a new lease on life after a ground-breaking heart transplant between an HIV-positive donor and recipient got to meet the family of the woman…

CHICAGO (AP) — An Indiana woman heard the heartbeat of her late daughter inside the chest of a 68-year-old Illinois man who received it in a transplant operation.Amber…

There are more than 100,000 people in the United States waiting for an organ transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, known as UNOS."I was born Type 1 diabetic," said…

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Satdarshan Monga, University of Pittsburgh Health…