JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (April 28, 2021) -- April is National Donate Life Month and Brooke Army Medical Center celebrated Blue/Green Spirit Week April 10-16, promoting the ...

The human body is a remarkably resilient thing, as many case studies of people surviving without organs tell us ...

Editor’s note: Colleen McCarthy is president of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, a nonprofit trade organization leading the U.S. organ donation community. She is also the vice ...

The number of people needing an organ transplant vastly outweighs the number of organs available. In 2022 there were about 1,800 Australians waiting for an organ but only about 1,200 people received ...

What is an Organ-on-a-Chip? An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic device that simulates the key functions and physiological responses of a specific human organ or organ system on a miniaturized scale.

WASHINGTON (AP) — On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or xenotransplants ...

When Anna Rose was 23 years old, she had nothing to do but lie in her bed in Portland and wait for the call that two lungs were ready for her in Seattle. “My doctor at the time was really rushing ...

When a human heart was left behind by mistake on a Southwest Airlines plane in 2018, transplant officials downplayed the incident. They emphasized that the organ was used for valves and tissues, not ...