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Some doctors are advocating for a partial reversal of a blanket ban on organ transplants using tissue from HIV+, saying it only makes sense for HIV+ donors to provide tissue for HIV+ patients in need.

The nation’s first face transplant patient has said a donor saved her from a life of eating and breathing through a tube, but until this weekend she knew her only as a woman who died in 2008.

As grateful as she was when her sister-in-law offered in October to donate a kidney on her behalf, Kathy Niedzwiecki didn’t believe for one second her prediction that it would happen before Christmas.

The "beating heart" transplant is an experimental operation that’s mostly been done in Europe. The donor heart is placed into a special box that feeds it blood and keeps it warm and ticking outside the body.

Live-donor liver transplantation is a lifesaving option for many suffering from end-stage liver disease but also a controversial procedure that raises questions about when it’s appropriate to put a healthy person at risk to save another.

There is an initial shock upon first glance at Connie Culp, the woman who received the nation’s first face transplant nearly two years ago.

The recipient of a rare double hand transplant says he feels "fantastic" and can wiggle fingers on both his new hands.

Doctors have successfully transplanted windpipes into two cancer patients in an innovative procedure that uses stem cells to allow a donated trachea to regenerate tissue and create an organ biologically close to the original, they said Friday.

A Spanish man who underwent the world’s first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras Monday for the first time since his surgery, thanking his doctors and the family of the donor.

It’s an early step toward one day building new lungs: Yale University researchers took apart and regrew a rat’s lung, and then transplanted it and watched it breathe.