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A local organization is encouraging more people to become organ donors to help honour the anniversary of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash and Green Shirt Day.

Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospitals Kidney Transplant Program completed its 50th transplant on March 14, 2022.

Ten-year-old Delaney Soto received a pediatric heart transplant at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone a few days before her birthday. Learn more.

Allison Dsouza was unable to walk a short distance without becoming winded. The Munhall resident’s trouble breathing led to a diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension, high blood pressure in the blood vessels in the lungs. Pulmonary hypertension is a rare, incurable lung disease. She has what’s called “idiopathic” pulmonary hypertension, which

Outrage over the denial of transplant organs to the unvaccinated is an opportunity to educate people on the complexities of organ allocation, writes Melissa Walton-Shirley, channeling her inner Ted Lasso.

Around 115,000 people across the country are waiting for heart transplants. Almost 4,000 of those are in NJ.

Preliminary findings from Penn Medicine in an ongoing first-in-human clinical trial examining the safety, tolerability and feasibility of chimeric antigen recep

Preliminary findings from Penn Medicine in an ongoing first-in-human clinical trial examining the safety, tolerability and feasibility of chimeric antigen receptor macrophage (CAR-M) has helped to establish the viability of this innovative immunotherapy, which advances the trailblazing scientific discovery of CAR T cell therapy- also pioneered at Penn- for solid cancer tumors and offers a promising new strategy in the fight against cancer.

/PRNewswire/ -- The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN®) today announced the publication of new NCCN Guidelines for Patients®: Graft-Versus-Host...

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network today announced the publication of new NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD).