Researchers at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) marked the 10-year anniversary of modern heart donation after ...

Toronto doctors have carried out a groundbreaking transplant with a heart that had stopped beating, according to the University Health Network.

Researchers headed by teams at Michigan Medicine and Mayo Clinic have discovered how a molecular process that occurs when donor hearts are preserved in cold storage contributes to failure after ...

Former NBA player and Survivor contestant Scot Pollard is opening up about the moment he met the family of his donor heart. The 50-year-old — who spent 11 seasons with the NBA — underwent a heart ...

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. The 25-year-old, from Dayton, Ohio, was born with a rare congenital ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a pioneering method to mend damaged hearts without open-heart surgery, an advance that ...

Duewy Scobee is alive thanks to an organ donor, Roc Dabney, from Pennsylvania. After running a 5K, Scobee was able to connect ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — One local mother is advocating for people to become organ donors after her son saved several lives. Kolanda Daniels lost her son in 2018, and because he was an organ donor, he was ...

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...

"There was a connection there that I felt," the retired athlete, 50, said of uniting with the family of his heart donor, Casey Angell Scot Pollard underwent a heart transplant in February 2024 The ...