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 ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report they ...

Transplanting organs from non-human animals into people could revolutionise medicine, potentially saving thousands of lives that are lost while people wait for organs. Scientists have previously ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and ...

No official cause of death has been released for actress Michelle Trachtenberg, but many news reports indicate she recently had a liver transplant. Michelle Trachtenberg had received a liver ...

Ernest House needed a liver transplant. But a heart condition was keeping him off the transplant list. “I would have died,” he says. “There's no doubt about that. My body was failing.” A former ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

Changes to the policy that governs how liver transplants are allocated in the United States were meant to increase the number of transplants and make the process more equitable, but a new study raises ...

Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar shared some positive medical news on the evening of Nov. 16. Kosar took to social media platform X to share that he was scheduled for an early-morning ...

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 ...

Recognizing early liver disease signs is crucial as many conditions develop silently. Persistent fatigue, jaundice, abdominal swelling, confusion, frequent infections, and gastrointestinal bleeding ...