For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Payton Herres is only alive today thanks to the generosity of an organ donor and his family, who gave her his heart 12 years ago.

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A new transplant procedure could be the answer to enhancing access and successful outcomes for patients in need of a new heart. Known as a beating-heart transplant, the process reduces the times a ...

Organ donation after the heart stops beating, a practice called donation after circulatory death, has gone from rare to routine in the United States, a new study shows. This shift over the past 25 ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...