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ATLANTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Surgeons with Piedmont Atlanta have successfully performed a rare surgery that replaces the patient’s heart and liver at the same time, according to the hospital system. …

Philadelphia – The 5-year-old girl named Melony Hunter is facing a challenging medical journey as she prepares for surgery to deal with a serious heart condition. Her parents, Deyonte and …

ORLANDO, Fla. — A local foreign language teacher dealt with a debilitating condition that required a blood transfusion for years before eventually receiving a life-saving transplant in Orlando. Now she …

In January, Courtney's Bluekey of Portage County received a life-saving call. She didn't respond immediately. “I thought it was a scam or something,” she told WPR's “Wisconsin today.” For 84 …

ZION, Ill. (WLS) — It's been 40 years since a suburban woman received a kidney transplant. Kidney is now 80 years old. Zion woman Debbie Ramsey spent years trying to …

VALHALLA, WESTCHESTER COUNTY (WABC) — It was a heartwarming reunion for a toddler, her mother and family as they returned to Westchester County Hospital on Friday. There, the girl received …

A six-month-old girl born with a life-threatening lung disease can now breathe on her own thanks to a rare double lung condition. Transplantation. Shortly after she was born on Nov. …

It all started with a minor cough when Shannon was in her final year of graduate school at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “The cough turned out to be pneumonia …

CHICAGO (CBS) — A California doctor battling advanced stage lung cancer is now cancer-free after surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital completed the first-ever lung and liver transplant on a cancer …

CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – More than 40,000 people will receive organ transplants this year. Almost 3,000 people will get a second chance at life by receiving donor lungs. COPD, …