This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Denise Aptekar, Kidney Transplant Recipient How To Increase Organ Donation RatesPay It Forwa...
The photograph of a beaming transplant patient holding her old, diseased heart in her hands has been lifting spirits across the Internet. "This is ...
Our float's central image, two intertwined hearts, will stand above us: a beacon of what is good and hopeful about humanity. We begin again, as we must, standing strong against pain, loss and resignation.
One morning, two of my doctors had just finished evaluating me. They had left the room and routinely sat down at their computer stations to type their medical notes. I could easily hear their conversation. I heard one doctor say to the other, "Oh well, he brought it upon himself."
Toni Trujillo, a medical marijuana patient in Los Angeles, was removed from the kidney transplant list at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center earlier this yea...
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.
I come to this discussion with a point of view that not too many have. An exceedingly personal point of view. I donated a kidney 8 weeks ago.
BOSTON -- Doctors at a Boston hospital have performed the nation's second full-face transplant, less than a month after the first. A team of more tha...
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he believes he'll have to make a decision on whether to have a heart transplant given his me...
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...
In September, my life changed forever. I was diagnosed with aplastic anemia. Within the past two months, everything is different. The 5 a.m. training days I once dreaded, I would now gladly welcome.
Shortly after the Olympics, I had the opportunity to meet my donor family. I was more nervous about our meeting than I had been for my Olympic race. How do you thank a family for life itself?
I will be covering this subject with medical experts on transplant and medical marijuana and attorneys who are pursuing remedies for medical marijuana...
Just weeks before Christmas, 13 donors have given 13 people with failing organs a new chance at life in a massive kidney donation effort involving 26 ...
Why -- when we are faced with the possibility of losing our life or the life of a loved one -- do we also have to fight with an insurance company which is there to take care of our medical needs in the first place?
This post has the latest news on the billions in subsidies which off-shore transplant carmakers have received from state and local governments.
Late last night, Senate Republicans derailed a bill, passed the day before by the House, to loan $15 billion to the Detroit Three, with 10 Republicans joining 40 Democrats and two Independents in favor.
Surgeons replaced the damaged windpipe of Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old mother of two, with one created from stem cells grown in a laboratory at Bri...
