A JAMA study suggests a lab-based urgency score could rank heart transplant candidates by how sick they are, better than ...

Newswise — New research from Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University about a model simulating interactions of lung organ donors and candidates over time to project outcomes has recently ...

More babies and children survive the wait for a heart transplant than in the past, but improvements are due to better medical care, not changes to wait-list rules, a new study finds. The method used ...

The American Heart Association is providing $4.5 million in funding to establish a new research network as the first part of a multi-phase initiative aimed at improving heart transplant outcomes ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. In a pioneering medical case that could help ...

When a patient is going through end-stage heart failure, the best treatment is to get a heart transplant. The basic steps are familiar: First a patient gets on the waiting list, and then the wait ...