The story of medicine in Pittsburgh has included huge chapters on the growth of transplant surgery. Livers, hearts, kidneys and lungs — all of these are the critical organs people need to survive.

When people sign up to be organ donors, they often think about hearts, lungs and kidneys. But there’s another part of that decision that can quietly change — and even save — many more lives: tissue ...

Part 1 of a four-part series The story of how Chris Truitt went from being a tissue industry insider to an industry skeptic starts with a family tragedy. In 1999, his 2-year-old daughter, Alyssa, died ...

The mission of supporting families through troubling times is alive and well in the Palmetto State, as We Are Sharing Hope SC (SHSC) continues to encourage eye, organ and tissue donation. SHSC ...

Nineteen-year-old Evan Spear was driving home late at night from the University of Arizona in May 2015 to visit his mother in Boulder when his car hit a black bull that had escaped from a farm south ...

An elite athlete, former model and mining engineer spent the day in Philadelphia raising awareness about tissue donation, a cause that saved her life. More than 65% of Turia Pitt's body was burned ...

GREENSBURG, Pa. — In August, Cassidy Gamble got the phone call from her dad’s girlfriend she didn’t want to receive. “There were paramedics there, and they were doing CPR,” Gamble recalled. Her dad, ...

Meredith Smith chose to remove her brain-damaged husband from life support. She said Lifebanc wanted to keep him alive ...

Birth tissue donation is part of a growing statewide program with thousands of participants run through Tennessee Donor Services. Donated birth tissue can help burn victims recover. Nashville-based ...

Bexar County has asked the Texas Attorney General's Office to weigh in on whether it is correctly interpreting a new state law to mean that county officials can no longer assist tissue donation groups ...