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 ...

Ben Zion Cohen Mirkov and Olga Cohen Mirkov welcomed what they thought was a healthy baby boy. "It's not the first boy that I have, so I feel that something is strange," Olga Cohen Mirkov said.

CHESANING, Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) - A Michigan family is celebrating the gift of life for their son who needed not one but five organ transplants. Jakob Perez, 9, is known as a light to anyone who ...

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 ...

More than 100,000 Americans need an organ transplant to stay alive, and each day, 17 die waiting. But a CBS News analysis finds one out of five donated organs is being tossed out. Tom Hanson has the ...

PORT CHESTER - Karina Valdovinos, whose 19-year-old son Christopher Ramirez tragically died following an automobile crash two years ago, saved the lives of five individuals in dire need of transplants ...