A new technique in lung transplantation could save many more lives. Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute says it has adopted practices known as "lungs in a box" and "lungs in a fridge" ...

Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants, the most in a single year since Northwestern's lung transplant program ...

Mr Miller is one of just 70 Americans who has received a beating-heart transplant ... limits the amount of organs available to people who need them. But a 'heart in a box,' which is kept pumping ...

Here’s how it works. For those with damaged or failing organs, organ transplant is often the only hope of survival without the aid of a machine. Organ donation saves thousands of lives ...