"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told Newsday.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

In a historic medical milestone, a Long Island hospital successfully completed its first heart, liver, and kidney transplant on a single patient—giving a 47-year-old Queens man a miraculous second ...

Dr. Steve Bynon was accused of changing figures in a database so certain patients on the waitlist would be unable to receive ...

As of September, more than 9,000 people in the US were waiting for a liver transplant. It is the second biggest need on the transplant list, following only kidneys. according to the Health ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

But two additional pig kidney recipients so far are thriving ... That “clouds the picture,” said Dr. Parsia Vagefi, a liver transplant surgeon at UT Southwestern Medical Center who wasn ...

One of every three donated kidneys never gets transplanted. CBS News explores why a growing number are being discarded.

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

Prolonged alcohol use can scar the liver, but treatment and staying alcohol-free may help prevent life-threatening problems.