Scot’s father, Pearl Pollard, died on a heart transplant list more than 20 years before his son underwent a successful transplant.

"Heart of Pearl" follows Pollard's heart transplant and the impact his father Pearl "Poison" Pollard, who died waiting on a heart, had on his life.

Pollard took part in a special screening of "Heart of Pearl" Saturday at Flix Brewhouse in Carmel. The former Indiana Pacer and NBA champion has spent his post-basketball career raising awareness for ...

Brittany Clayborne remembers the day her health crisis began in 2010. She had just given birth to her son, Micah, and was home recovering when she suddenly couldn’t breathe. “It was like they were ...

I’m so impressed by the bravery you’ve shown,” wrote the former president, who had a quadruple bypass surgery in 2004 ...

It started with the gift of a single heart — and ended with three lives transformed. Doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital performed an extremely rare series of ...

Mason Burnette received a heart transplant nearly five and a half years ago. Thursday, he is looking forward to starting t-ball practice next week. “He's healthier than ever, which is amazing ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary ...

Heart donation after circulatory death (DCD) has expanded global heart transplant access, increasing transplant volumes by about 30% at centers adopting the technique.

Dr. Stephen Pettit, a transplant lead and consultant cardiologist at Royal Papworth Hospital, said DCD heart transplantation is gradually spreading worldwide, increasing the use of hearts that ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow ...

Interestingly, in 2023 and 2024, Stanford University issued papers detailing its own beating-heart transplant operations – but in procedures to date, the hearts had undergone brief periods of ...