heart transplant

Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart in September.

Donation after circulatory death, a method long used to recover other organs but not more fragile hearts, could allow possibly thousands more patients a chance at a lifesaving transplant — expanding the number of donor hearts by 30%.

The man pleaded multiple times to get his medication to prevent organ rejection and was denied. It's not the first time the jail's medical contractor was involved in an inmate's death.

Siding with a preliminary decision by state regulators, an administrative law judge Tuesday recommended denial of plans by Nemours Children’s Hospital...

A proposal to build a fifth pediatric heart transplant center in Florida is drawing opposition from at least two of the existing programs.