Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ... the new kidney, he said. Rejection is a common threat after transplants of human organs ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...

scientist found that bacterial infections flourished and lowered overall survivability. This new piece of the body’s immune defense could open new pathways to improved antibiotics and other medicinal ...

The recipient died the following month after receiving the body part ... to WHIO that the infected organ was a kidney. A Michigan HHS investigation also found this to be the case.

Behold, the human brain: Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and ...

“She was found unresponsive and unconscious on the floor; she didn’t have any broken bones, but she was severely dehydrated and has major organ failure,” Kat Surcombe told Mail Onlin ...