Earlier on April 21, the court had directed the Centre to convene a meeting of chief secretaries and public health secretaries of all State...

India is set to promote kidney swap transplants nationwide, aiming to increase transplant numbers by up to 15%. Following a directive from ...

India reported 15,158 organ transplants until September 30 this year, including 1,075 for international patients. The government outlined m...

The Kerala government has established an advisory committee to oversee organ transplantation procedures in the state. Health Minister Veena...

In a groundbreaking procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital, doctors successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient,...

Scientists have said that they are closer to comprehending the best way to turn the human body reactive to an organ donation from another s...

A genetically modified pig kidney has achieved an unprecedented milestone by functioning successfully within a human body for approximately...

Organ donation and transplantation is governed by Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994 (amended in 2014) under National Or...

Working towards firming up the policy, the ministry has already recommended states to remove the domicile criterion for registering those s...

The Gurgaon-based airline delivered the heart from the operation theatre to Global Hospital in two hours and twenty-two minutes, well withi...

The pig that 'donated' its heart in the Maryland operation was genetically modified so that its heart would not trigger the type of fatal p...

While it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for l...

Although many questions remain to be answered about the long-term consequences of the transplant, which involved a brain-dead patient follo...

The court further said, "There is no organ in the human body like a criminal kidney or criminal liver or criminal heart! There is no differ...

Believe it or not, pigs might soon extend the lives of people waiting for organ donations.

Union Minister JP Nadda said an Inter-Ministerial Coordination Committee has been set up to coordinate various activities for promotion of ...

Maha government will modify on lines of the central government the rules it has framed under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, HC wa...