Singapore's health ministry proposed Monday the revision of its human organ transplant law to allow payment to kidney donors.

Minister of Health Khaw Boon Wan told Parliament that amending the Human Organ Transplant Act to also scrap the age limit on kidney donors will help increase the number of kidney transplants done in the country and save more lives

Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic here have pioneered surgery to remove donor kidneys through a single incision in a bellybutton.

Dr. Inderbir S. Gill and colleagues believe that since the procedure has a reduced recovery time, it will encourage more donors to donate kidney

Anti-rejection drugs given after life-saving organ transplants put them at a higher risk of developing cancer, according to a new study.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School implanted human kidney cancer cells into mice and then gave the rodents cyclosporine, an immunosuppressant drug often used after transplants. Mice that received the drug grew tumors at a faster rate than mice left untreated

World-renowned heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey died of natural causes late Friday, according to the DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center at Methodist Hospital in Houston. He was 99.

In a career spanning more than 70 years ago, DeBakey performed more than 60,000 heart surgeries. His patients include late American presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the last Shah of Iran and King Hussein of Jordan

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided Cipro and its class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones will now bear a "black box" after reports confirmed that the drugs increase the risk of tendinitis and tendon rupture.

The federal agency said that the warning on the drug is necessary to ensure that the drugs' benefits outweigh the risks. It is also requiring the manufacturers to provide a medication guide to patients about the potential side effects of tendon rupture