On today's special episode of the 5 Things podcast: U.S. surgeons have completed over a million transplant operations since they started doing them nearly 70 years ago. Still, each year about 100,000 ...

The Perez family has been waiting nine years for a multi-organ transplant for their son. They got the call this week that UPMC Children’s Hospital had a match for all five organs their he needed. The ...

More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a new heart, kidney or some other organ. Many will die waiting. Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs that ...

Cloning human organs has sparked intense interest and debate in recent years, drawing attention from scientific, ethical, and medical communities. The potential for cloning human organs presents ...

When non-surgical medical intervention is no longer enough for patients with missing or damaged organs, organ transplantation can become their best chance for life-sustaining care. A transplant is a ...

Assistant Professor (Internal Medicine, Kidney Transplantation & Nephrology), Erasmus University Medical Center These reports and cases are part of a global proliferation of the organ trade that ...

Editor’s note: Colleen McCarthy is president of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, a nonprofit trade organization leading the U.S. organ donation community. She is also the vice ...

On Palm Sunday five years ago, fire struck two cathedrals: Notre-Dame and St. John the Divine. Both their organs are now restored. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll find out about ...