transplants

Researchers are gearing up as two companies to begin the world's first formal studies of pig-to-human transplants in 2025. So far emergency transplants haven't yielded survival past two months

The 12-floor, 565,000-square-foot building, adjacent to the hospital's Davis Islands campus, will be named for the Taneja family, major donors to the project. It is slated to open in 2027.

The U.S. transplant system ordered hospitals to quit using a test that made Black patients' kidneys appear healthier than they really were.

The 565,000-square-foot tower, slated for the northern end of the Davis Islands campus, which will have room for 144 beds, 32 operating suites and increased intensive care capacity.

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

In a step toward animal-human transplants, researchers plan to track the organ's performance for a second month.

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%.

Miami fashion designer René Ruiz joined Jackson Health to speak about his recent philanthropic endeavor: custom-made hospital gowns for patients recovering from transplant surgery.

Tampa General Hospital and Adventist Health System filed challenges to the proposed organ-transplant rule, while UF Health Shands and Miami’s Jackson Memorial joined in another challenge to the rule.

The researchers confirmed all of the patients were infected with COVID-19 with five suffering severe symptoms that required hospitalization.

By Christine Sexton / News Service of Florida It’s been less than two weeks since Florida jettisoned some long-standing regulations for hospitals, but...

Florida hospitals are battling about cancer treatment and the appropriate level of state regulation of bone-marrow transplants.