Lung Transplant

WATCH: Hospital Hosts Prom For Sick Kids

Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Leukemia, Video, Heart Transplant, Lung Transplant, Julie Keeton, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Weston Keeton, Joshua Kahan Foundation, Jeff Kahan, Chop Prom, Childhood Cancer, Impact News

After Jeff Kahan lost his son to cancer, the grieving dad decided to bring life to kids battling life-threatening diseases. He fulfills his mission...

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Community Rallies Together To Help Teen In Need Of Lung Transplant

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transplant, Fundraising, Cystic Fibrosis, Lung Transplant, Children's Health, Organ Transplant, Impact News

Most three-year-olds are concerned with ABCs, cookies and cartoons. For Bethany Bibb, it was the year she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Now 1...

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Lyndsey Scott Received Lungs Of 30-Year Smoker In

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smokers Lung Transplant, Lung Transplant, Health, World News

LONDON — The family of a 28-year-old British woman who unknowingly received a lung transplant from a smoker says she would have been "horrified"...

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Homeless 14-Year-Old Girl Gets Approved For Lung Transplant (UPDATE)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronnie Walker, Kimberly Covington, Homeless Youth, Organ Transplant, Lung Transplant, Loyola University Chicago, Dr. Robert Love, Loyola University Health System, Lung Transplant for Homeless Girl, Impact News

UPDATE: Ronnie Walker's social worker, Carolyn Taren, informed The Huffington Post today that the 14-year-old and her family will soon be moving into ...

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Scavenging for Organs: Why the Donor Famine Justifies A Radical Harvest

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Law, Organ Donation, State Law, Norway, Iran, Liver, Legislation, Mandated Choice, Politics, Kidney Transplant, Courage, Ethics, National Kidney Foundation, Disability, Presumed Consent, Bioethics, Health Care, Medicine, State Legislatures, Illinois, Liver Transplant, Heart Transplant, Belgium, Kidney, Dale Risinger, Conservative, Pro-Life, Unos, France, Heart, Human Rights, Lung Transplant, Liberalism, Health, Great Britain, Republican, Hospitals, American Medical Association, Doctors, Spain, Healthcare, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

18 Americans die every day while waiting for an organ transplant, yet the American political establishment has been unwilling to champion non-traditional methods of expanding the organ supply.

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