Colorectal cancer is the fourth-most-common cancer in the U.S. and the second deadliest. One in 5 patients is diagnosed with ...

Liver disease patients waiting for a transplant have been offered fresh hope. A new mechanism for rapid liver regeneration triggered by a chemical messenger called glutamate has been discovered.

Dr. Steve Bynon was accused of changing figures in a database so certain patients on the waitlist would be unable to receive ...

Gandhinagar: According to information provided by the state govt in the Gujarat assembly on Wednesday, 38.57% of patients who underwent a liver transplant and 3.3% of patients who received a ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

Chinese doctors have made a historic breakthrough by successfully transplanting a genetically engineered pig liver into a human. The organ functioned ...

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

Houston-based Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center reactivated its abdominal transplant program after a yearlong pause. In ...

The patient’s cancer was initially treated with chemotherapy, a colon resection and liver ablations. Since the transplant, there have been no signs of cancer and the patient does not require ...

Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an used a genetically modified ...