Passengers usually save their applause for when the plane touches down, but on United Airlines on Saturday they were clapping even before the plane left the ground. That's because United …
Donor
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Bone marrow transplantion
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Heart transplant recipient Harley Duffer honored her organ donor, Nurse Peyton, at the Rose Parade, highlighting the impact of organ donation and lifesaving gifts. SAN DIEGO — A beating heart …
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Photo credit: SvetaZi Living donor liver transplants are increasingly emerging to increase the number of transplant patients and reduce the demand for deceased donor transplants. Living liver transplantation (LDLT) from …
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Videos
Transplant donor wakes up on operating table as doctors prepare to remove his heart
by News Sourceby News SourceA nightmare scenario played out at a Kentucky hospital as a transplant donor woke up on the operating table just as doctors were …
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Bone marrow transplantion
Bone marrow transplant recipient stands by donor as best man
by Mary Saladnaby Mary Saladnaman. Jack, this is my brother. When Mike Riley gets married this weekend, his best man Jack Epley will be by his side. Just like Mike has been by Jack's …
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Organ Donation
Lives of kidney disease patients could be saved by international changes to donor policy
by News Sourceby News SourceCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Thousands of kidney disease patients' lives around the world could be saved every year if countries adopted the UK's rules on organ donation, a new study …
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According to the American Cancer Society, there were more than 100,000 new cases of colon cancer this year. If it spreads, it is considered metastatic colon cancer. That's what happened …
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Liver Transplantation
Daughter gives mother a new life with living donor liver transplant
by News Sourceby News SourceTThe pain in his abdomen worsened day by day, and Consuelo Santiago could hardly get out of bed. For 10 years, she had suffered from a debilitating liver disease that …
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Jennifer Ellis was born with a rare condition in which her organs are inverted, a condition that often affects the lungs. She needed a lung transplant, but ended up bonding …
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Videos
Surgeons perform first organ transplant from an HIV-positive donor
by News Sourceby News SourceDoctors in Baltimore have performed what’s believed to be the first ever kidney transplant from a living donor with HIV.