The girl, from Sweden, needed the transplant because her vein leading to her liver was blocked , Bloomberg reported, a condition called "extrahepatic portal vein obstruction."

THURSDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) — Women who have had a liver transplant typically have successful pregnancies, according to a new study.

THURSDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) — Women who have had a liver transplant typically have successful pregnancies, according to a new study.

LONDON — For the first time doctors have successfully transplanted a vein grown with a patient’s own stem cells, another example of scientists producing human body parts in the lab.

On Sunday morning a group of five members of Our Lady of Guadalupe Angelican Catholic Mission in Chicago's largely Mexican neighborhood, Little Village, decided to stop eating. They say they are on a hunger strike, demanding organ transplants for t…

(Reuters) – Hispanic patients in need of a heart transplant are 50 percent more likely to die before they get one that white patients, according to a U.S. study. Previous studies found that black patients fared poorly after transplants compared to whit…

New research confirms that successful pregnancies are common for female liver transplant recipients. The study appearing in the June issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the St…

New research confirms that successful pregnancies are common for female liver transplant recipients.

One Bay Area family is celebrating a high school graduation that they never thought they would see thanks to a recent heart transplant at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

     A Wichita hospital has announced that it is suspending its kidney transplant program and ordering an independent review after learning of the deaths of four patients who received kidney transplants in the last year.