PITTSBURGH — Faced with a federal judge's order in the heart-wrenching cases of two terminally ill children seeking lung transplants, a national...
WASHINGTON -- It's a life or death matter: Who gets the next scarce donated organ? In an unprecedented challenge to the nation's transplant system, a ...
By Peter Murray Contributor, Singularity University. In what's being called a medical first, doctors were able to keep a liver functioning outside t...
Nothing can prepare you for the loss of a child, which is why I never would have guessed that allowing my son's organs to be donated, and thus, letting him live on through the lives of total strangers, would provide the comfort to get through my toughest days.
Researchers created an artificial rat kidney in the laboratory that was then transplanted into another rat and ultimately produced urine -- a huge advance in the field of bioengineering.
Hope is a very powerful thing, and as a father that has lost a child, sometimes it is the only thing. I began to realize that with my business and marketing background, I could help. Within weeks after Taylor's funeral, I filed the appropriate paperwork to being what is called Taylor's Gift Foundation.
It was New Year's Eve 2006, and Marnie Blakey couldn't get rid of an extremely troubling thought that kept bubbling to the top of her mind. "There ...
Plastic surgery is more than skin deep. Reconstructive surgery, which Dr. Murray also excelled in, continues to push the field forward, with implications far beyond cosmetic procedures.
The photograph of a beaming transplant patient holding her old, diseased heart in her hands has been lifting spirits across the Internet. "This is ...
A 27-year-old British woman with cystic fibrosis died after receiving a pair of smoker's lungs in an organ transplant. Her family said the woman did n...
It was a brisk December morning when I received the call that I had received a heart from the transplant waiting list. A few days later, I woke up receiving word that I had also become the recipient of successful dual heart and kidney transplant.
Rightly or wrongly, we make much more fuss about the rights of the dead than the benefit of the living. When there are public scandals about transplantation, these are never about the lives lost that could so easily have been saved, but about organs said to have been improperly procured.
More than 100,000 patients are on the waiting list for solid organ transplants, but in 2011 there were just 28,465 transplants completed. And the shortage is only worsening as the numbers of available organs continues to drop, both from living and deceased donors.
A few good men from the U.S. Navy came to a widow's aid to give her husband a proper burial in San Diego last week. When Kenneth Nosik, 26 years ol...
On Sunday morning a group of five members of Our Lady of Guadalupe Angelican Catholic Mission in Chicago's largely Mexican neighborhood, Little Villag...
Imagine going from having no face to having someone else's face. Face transplantation is the process of removing part or all of a donor's face and ...
During your recent and glamorous visit to Croatia, you left about $60,000 in tips for the staff of the hotels Hilton Imperial and Rixos Libertas in Dubrovnik.
The whole concept of organ donation isn't something that most people think about very often, unless of course you happen to know someone who has done it or if you're walking around with a heart that isn't your own. I fall in the former category.
Kidney theft is a venerable urban legend. The origins of urban legends are notoriously difficult to identify but in the case of kidney (or other organ) theft, the rumors seem to have preceded the real-life cases by some years.
Dick Cheney's heart transplant at age 71 has left many wondering if the former Vice President was too old to undergo the procedure. Often, hospital...
Some people just aren’t content waiting in line with everybody else. Wealthy people are bypassing donor lists by duping poor people in Banglades...
Neil Millman wanted to give me some pointers about what was ahead of me. As I walked into his hospice room, I knew it could just as easily have been my room. The cancer that is attacking his body is the result of taking drugs for years that kept his transplanted kidney alive.
HOLLIS, Maine — A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes – and a new stomach, liver, spl...
Jesus Navarro had everything he needed to get a kidney transplant in the United States--private insurance and a willing donor, his wife, with a compat...
Amy DeStefano started off the new year with a new lease on life when she got the heart for which she had waited three years. After a virus damaged ...
