Pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first human heart transplant in 1967, died today while on holiday in Cyprus. Barnard, who was 78, died at a ...

believed the discovery would validate South Africa's black majority in much the same way that Christiaan Barnard's first successful heart transplant in 1968 affirmed apartheid South Africa to the ...

Becoming an organ donor has long been a cause near and dear to the heart of Catholic Memorial hockey coach Larry Rooney. When his younger brother, Joe, was in need of a kidney in 2019, Larry ...

The researchers were ... Analysis Reveals an Additional Mechanism Behind Statin Therapy's Heart-Related Benefits in People With HIV Dec. 11, 2024 — Investigators who previously found that a ...

Transplant immunology is the study of the immune response that occurs when an organ or tissue is moved (grafted) from one individual to another. A major problem following transplantation is that ...

Since 1968 when the first kidney transplant in Maryland was performed at one of our facilities, Johns Hopkins has been a leader in transplant innovation. In 1996, the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive ...