Nova Scotia will be the first jurisdiction in North America to have a presumed consent law. 

Nova Scotia's 15-year-old Tahlia Ali has been waiting for a lung transplant operation she hopes will change her future.

Organ transplants in Canada are only being done in "urgent" cases, leaving many Canadians unsure when they will receive the organ that will save their life.

French researchers have used human cells to grow a skin-crawling replacement for surgical thread.

A Calgary woman who was told she might have to wait up to nine years for a kidney transplant is calling her organ donation a "Christmas miracle."

The genetically modified pig-monkey creatures were born alive but died within a week, according to scientists in Beijing.

Despite increased interest among Canadians in becoming organ donors, a recent report by the Canadian Institute of Health Informaton (CIHI) says the country's organ supply isn't meeting the demand.

A New Jersey hospital says it mixed up two transplant patients' names and gave the wrong person a kidney.

Researchers are trying to figure out how to make more donated organs useful for transplants.

A Cobourg woman's desperate search for a live liver donor is highlighting the lack of available organs for transplant in Ontario.