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The mood in the room was somber as five doctors, a nurse, and a social worker pulled their chairs around the table and turned to address Autumn Chenkus and Charlie Higgs. The couple’s 5-month-old son, Maverick, was down the hallway fighting for...

On a weekend in mid-September 2012, a team of gynaecologists and transplant specialists at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden, performed two uterus transplants with living donors. In both cases, a mother donated her womb to her daughter. Both...

Georgia teen denied life-saving heart transplant due to ‘non-compliance’ A Georgia teenager in dire need of a new heart was denied a transplant after doctors determined that his history of poor grades and prior issues with the law did not...

Ugreen/iStock/Thinkstock(NEWARK, N.J.) — For decades, Lisa Salberg, 48, has grappled with complications from a dangerous form of heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. She had a stroke at 21 and multiple operations over the years to try and...

In what’s believed to be a world first, Canadian doctors say they were able to save a young mother’s life with a radical procedure — they removed her lungs. Melissa Benoit, who was born with cystic fibrosis and had developed a rampaging lung infection...