There are some who are advocating a radical notion to solve the organ shortage: broadening our definition of “death.” ...

A critically ill seven-year-old Saudi boy received a lifesaving heart transplant at KFSHRC in Riyadh, with the donor heart ...

In cases of brain death, where the heart may still be beating, the patient has lost all vital brain functions, particularly in the brain stem.

The first brain death during pregnancy in which the fetus was delivered after time on life support, more accurately called organ support, occurred in 1981.

Family of California Teen Declared Brain Dead Sues Hospital for Malpractice Doctors declared Jahi McMath brain dead, but her family says she's alive.

As cases move through the courts, more scrutiny of “good faith” and “due diligence” in consent contexts and negligence in organ and tissue donor process integrity by hospitals and OPOs will be ...

A pregnant brain-dead woman in Georgia was kept on life support until her fetus was viable. Experts say it raises ethical and legal questions.

The results suggest that lung xenotransplantation could one day become an option, but they also point to how much more work ...

A team of surgeons in China has successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig lung into a human for the first time.