The Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Act would end the practice of denying transplants to people with Down ...

A writer explores how a Jewish ritual changed her relationship with mortality. I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting some of my stitches, ...

Jessica Eastes was a cardiac nurse when she learned she was in heart failure and would need a transplant to survive.

The chances were slim, and the wait was long, but Scarlett Grace Rodriguez is home and healing, and so is her family.

Tullahoma basketball coach Jason Welch overcame heart surgery before the season, then led team to TSSAA basketball state ...

Since 2006, the Cares for Kids Radiothon has raised over $4.5 million for the MaineHealth Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.

Metal scrap dealer Melvin Hoffman continues to work these days despite a serious health condition he was born with. Hoffman ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

Friday the 13th lived up to its notorious rep for a Long Island teen — who suffered a stroke that day in December, leading her to need brain and open-heart surgeries. “I was on a call with my ...

Reilly’s whole world was thrown for a loop in mid-November, when testing while recovering from a concussion turned up an ...