Surgery

As it is now, the U.S. transplant system treats kidneys from all Black donors as if they are at higher risk for failing, even though only some are.

A first-of-its-kind study demonstrated that a new nervous system-controlled bionic leg helps leg amputees walk more naturally than traditional prosthesis.

Being able to transplant kidneys using only local anesthetic could shorten patients' hospital stays and make the procedure accessible to more people, doctors say.

Rick Slayman was the first person in the world to receive this pioneering surgery in March 2024.

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient after giving her a new heart pump.

Doctors in Boston performed the first pig kidney transplant in a living patient.

A new implantable device, so far tested in rats and pigs, could soon be trialed in humans to help detect harmful post-surgery leaks in the body.

This is the first whole-eye transplant performed in a person, and it was completed alongside a partial face transplant.

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine used breast implants and an artificial lung to keep a patient stabilized until his double-lung transplant.

Doctors report an "unusual and spectacular injury" in which a knife blade lodged in a man's belly drifted through his abdomen.