Transplant

Fifty-seven-year-old Ted Garding is Mayo Clinic’s first altruistic living liver donor. The living liver donation program allows a healthy person to donate a portion of [...]

April is National Donate Life Month. It's observed to help raise awareness about the importance of organ donation.

In the U.S., it’s estimated that 4.5 million [...]

ROCHESTER, Minn. — While 2021 proved to be a record-breaking year for organ donation in the U.S., many people are still hesitant to register to [...]

When Veronica Ciudad-Real was diagnosed with multiple myeloma — a blood cancer she had never heard of — in early 2021, the single mother had [...]

Mayo Clinic living donor Mike Peshut is one of 22 kidney donors who reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro today on World Kidney Day, Thursday, [...]

"I was 38 minutes with no brain activity," says Joe Bitter, recalling a 2015 incident.

He collapsed one night without warning, and his life thereafter would [...]

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new scoring system to help health care professionals predict the 30-day mortality risk for patients with [...]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ― Mayo Clinic and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) announced today a research agreement to transform organ transplantation. The institutions will bioengineer innovative approaches [...]

Editor’s Update 2/7/2022: : Dr. Mussallem successfully completed the 26.2 With Donna marathon on Sunday, Feb. 6, and shared her appreciation for the support of [...]

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My husband had a kidney transplant last year. The medication he takes to prevent organ rejection also suppresses his immune response, making him [...]

Heart-pounding moments have been ever-present in Gregg Bohlig's life. He is a gifted athlete and was a three-sport star in high school, earning state player [...]

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Cancer, infections and heart disease pose the greatest risk to kidney transplant recipients ― not organ rejection ― according to a recently [...]