Researchers warn against widespread use of the transplants due to potential for long-lasting, unintended health consequences ...

Research at Harvard—from medicine to technology to education and business—touches countless lives, moving us closer to ...

Pesh Patel, a Lafayette resident on the organ transplant waitlist for the second time, is working with lawmakers to get more protections for organ donors and recipients, including Medicaid ...

A California cancer survivor was the recipient of the world's first in-human bladder transplant this month thanks to a pair ...

A California cancer survivor was the recipient of the world's first in-human bladder transplant this month thanks to a pair ...

The Washington Post: FDA Approves Pig Organ Transplant Trials For Patients With Kidney Failure The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that ...

The person who received the bladder is doing well, and the successful transplant could offer hope to thousands of people with bladder dysfunction.

Dr. Inderbir Gill calls it “the realization of a dream” for treating patients with debilitating bladder conditions ...

Multiple obstacles, including vascular connections and immune suppression, made the pioneering bladder transplant procedure a challenge.

California surgeons have performed the first-ever successful bladder transplant, aiding a patient who previously had his ...

This new transplant surgery was developed over several years. The doctors first practiced on pigs and then ... placing it in the patient. The transplant team got their first match in early May. They ...