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 airlifted from Abu Dhabi. The complex, time-sensitive operation involved ...

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

Ferreira explained that a brain dead person simply remains on ventilator support until the heart and body finally succumb. The concept of brain death — when injury to the brain is really massive ...

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

Adriana Smith, a brain-dead Atlanta woman kept alive under Georgia anti-abortion laws, gave birth on June 13 and will be taken off life support Tuesday, her family said. Smith’s mother, April ...

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