If you’re thinking about donating at this week’s NEWS CENTER Maine blood drive, the American Red Cross is asking you to ...

Until recently, if a heart stopped beating, it couldn’t be donated. Donor hearts typically come from patients determined to be brain dead, from which doctors can extract the beating organ and ...

Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain-dead, but new research shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available organs. It's called donation after ...

Typically, heart donations are usually acquired from patients who are brain dead. A few years ago, surgeons started to acquire hearts after circulatory death instead by reanimating them with a machine ...

Surgeons Dr Jacob Schroder and Dr Zachary Fitch perform a heart transplant at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC, in October 2022. [AP Photo] Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain ...

A new transplant method that "reanimates" donor hearts appears safe and effective, a new clinical trial has found -- in an advance that could substantially expand the supply of donor hearts available ...