When Jeremy and Hanna Maynard got married, they knew they were in perfect alignment, but kidney disease tests that the theory was diagnosed and things went downhill quickly. He needed …
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Kidney Transplantation
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When Erin Wheeler's kidneys (donated by her father when she was 10 years old) began to fail, her mother, Julia Catalano, wanted to donate her, but she wasn't a good …
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Alabama woman passed a major milestone on Saturday and became the recipient of the longest lifetime of pig organ transplants. Healthy and full of energy with new kidneys for 61 …
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The importance of organ donation. I teased her, oh, what are you looking at? It looks very high. Emily Hoffman's older sister, Beth Hoffman, teased her sister three years ago. …
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Kidney Transplantation
Viral social media posts of low country women could lead to kidney transplants
CHARLSON, S.C. (WCSC) – Social media posts reaching thousands and reaching thousands may give women a second lease. Hope Walters, 23, is receiving community support after she shares it Facebook …
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Towana Rooney knew that the first four people who received the organs from pigs had died within two months. However, Gazden in Alabama was still a game I tried. After …
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Heart Transplantation
The courageous struggle of women in Athens and Tennessee for new hearts in a time of national scarcity.
ATHENS, TN — Every eight minutes, another person is added to the transplant waiting list. Heart transplantation is the most effective treatment for end-stage heart failure. But a national shortage …
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Emotional effects
Why are 80% of organ donors in India women? Transplant surgeon talks about gender disparity in organ donation
Donor burden Organ donation places physical and psychological stress on women, especially when forced. As all the doctors who spoke to TNM acknowledged, living organ donation is a complex surgery …
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AUBURN, Maine (WGME) — Another patient is left without access to donations after a national charity suddenly shut down. A woman recovering from a kidney transplant was left struggling to …
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Maria Contreras and Monica Davis had nothing in common until fate forced them together now they share the same life-saving …