He suddenly realizes: His kidney is gone. It rarely happens that way anymore, but there’s reason to fear illegal organ harvesting. The practice is rampant and getting worse by the year.

Demand for organ transplants has increased in recent years (Stefan Rousseau/PA) Some 35 human organs were made available for transplant after being donated over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day ...

In Gretel and the Great War, an antic epistolary novel set in early 20th-century Austria, the writer tries to make sense of a ...

Mumbai set a new record for organ donations in 2024, achieving its highest number of Brain Stem Death (BSD) donations since the Covid-19 pandemic. According to data from the Zonal Transplant ...

My father, who was a doctor, recently passed away. He left a last will and testament where he subjected his kidneys for donation to a hospital upon his death. Can human organs be subject of a donation ...

Faye Louise was diagnosed with a rare cancer that often requires multiple organs to be removed via surgery — but one year later, she's now cancer-free Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer ...

AP spoke with three people closely watching pig kidney development, including two who’ve asked about volunteering for a trial. Some hope pig kidneys might one day help ease a dire shortage of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Alongside their new organ, some transplant recipients also say they’ve inherited new ...

The calls and emails started coming to NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States soon after doctors began experimenting with pig organs in humans. People worried ...