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(WHTM) – Two Pennsylvania lawmakers want to provide tax incentives to living organ donors. State Sens. Lindsey Williams (D-Allegheny) and Linda Schlegel Culver (R-Columbia, Lucerne, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder) said: invoice …

The liver is the only organ in the body that can re-generate making it an option for living organ donation. Experts at Mayo Clinic …

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – It’s not often that organ donation recipients get to meet their donors. That’s not the case for one Minnesota man. He was given a new lease …

Today, Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) introduced HR 6171, the Living Organ Donor Tax Credit Act. This bill would provide a one-time refundable tax credit of …

If you’re among the 54 percent of American adults who’ve registered to be an organ donor, it’s encouraging to know your decision …

Medical illustration of living kidney donation.Credit: Mayo Clinic More than 90,000 people in the United States are waiting for a kidney transplant, and demand outstrips available supply, highlighting the critical …

GARNER, N.C. (WTVD) — At just 23 years old, Harris Canady faces a battle he never expected. He is a musician, soil scientist, and North Carolina State University graduate whose …

Kyoto – Kyoto University Hospital announced on Monday that it had performed the world’s first simultaneous lung and liver transplant from a living donor. In an operation on November 15 …

Liver transplantation has been accepted as a life-saving treatment and standard of care for many forms of end-stage liver disease since the early 1980s. Initially, all liver transplants used livers …

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Thanks to a change in national policy, people who are in overall good health and live well-controlled type 2 diabetes can donate a kidney. Dr. Naim Issa …