transplants

An judge rejects the motion of Nemours Children's Hospital, saying it didn't establish legal standing because it had not shown it would be “substantially affected” by the proposed rule on transplants.

Nemours, Memorial Healthcare and AdventHealth Orlando, which support the AHCA rule, have moved to intervene after Tampa General, UF Health Shands and Jackson Memorial filed challenges.

A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant. Doctors say he is faring well after his June transplant.

The new research aims to overcome barriers for using organs from someone who dies when their heart stops.

Aimee Sachs' father is spearheading a massive registration campaign. His daughter, who suffered strokes and died at age 38, was a professional sports reporter. She was also an organ donor.

The hospital completed 889 procedures at its Transplant Institute.

Researchers are gearing up as two companies to begin the world's first formal studies of pig-to-human transplants in 2025. So far emergency transplants haven't yielded survival past two months

The 12-floor, 565,000-square-foot building, adjacent to the hospital's Davis Islands campus, will be named for the Taneja family, major donors to the project. It is slated to open in 2027.

The U.S. transplant system ordered hospitals to quit using a test that made Black patients' kidneys appear healthier than they really were.

The 565,000-square-foot tower, slated for the northern end of the Davis Islands campus, which will have room for 144 beds, 32 operating suites and increased intensive care capacity.

Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart in September.

In a step toward animal-human transplants, researchers plan to track the organ's performance for a second month.