Scripps Health patients and doctors made history by participating in the first intercontinental kidney transplant paired donor chain, which started with a man in Greece and has grown to involve 10 organ donors and recipients.

Terri Sempek made medical history in Nebraska on March 27, 1991, when she was the first person to have a pancreas transplant at the Nebraska Medical Center.

HENDERSON, W.Va. — Many people rely on their cellphones for making calls, updating Facebook and texting friends and family. For Beth Tucker, her cellphone is a matter of life and death.

Surgeons with the Methodist J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center performed 50 transplants in April, putting them on pace to perform more than 500 this year.

Dr. Hassan Emami Razavi, the deputy health minister, said currently there are 33 centers for kidney transplant, eight centers for heart, two centers for lung, six centers for liver, one center for pancreas, and five centers for bone marrow.

TEHRAN, May 18 (MNA) – The director of the organ transplant society announced recently that about 18,000 patients are waiting for organ transplant in the country.

KUCHING: Taboos and myths on death are among reasons that contribute to the very low number of people donating their organs in the country.

HARDIN – Friends plan a benefit to help a financially strapped family plagued with health problems. One health issue after another seems to have attacked Calhoun County resident Jon Brackett, 52, whose diabetes led to many other problems after a kidney…

A Columbus man, who received a kidney and a pancreas from an Olmsted Falls man, will run the Cleveland half marathon this Sunday.

Something is rotten in the state of organ transplantation in Memphis. Our city is in danger of losing access to many of the organs that are donated in Tennessee for transplant; as a result, lives could be lost. As a native West Tennessean, I am deeply …