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The Gift of Sight: Man who received cornea transplant meets family of donor
ABC Action News Tampa Bay· 18 hours agoDerbin Manuel Huertas passed away suddenly last year from complications of diabetes at the young age of 15. “He was full of joy and love,” said his mother Ana Brownell Huertas. One of those ...
Small pump for kids awaiting heart transplant shows promise in new trial
Medical Xpress· 3 days agoThe pump, a new type of ventricular assist device, or VAD, is surgically attached to the heart to...
FDA Approves Azurity Pharmaceuticals’ Myhibbin as an Oral Suspension for Organ Transplant Recipients
Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine· 4 days agoAxurity Pharmaceuticals announced that the FDA has officially approved Myhibbin as a ready-to-use...
As Spokane School Board president donates kidney to her husband, they had role models and friends...
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 1 day agoMay 8—Since they hit it off on a blind date in 1997, Nikki Otero Lockwood and Bill Lockwood were romantically compatible. Introduced through work friends, the two worked in health care, Bill ...
Daughter Saves Mother's Life With An Organ Transplant — Twice: "It Was A Miracle!"
Woman's World via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEileen Harlin had always been close to her mom, Julia. She couldn’t imagine life without her. So...
A Millcreek boy got a new heart. His same doctors gave one to his mom 23 years earlier
Gannett via AOL· 4 days agoHe remained in the PICU for four days and was discharged from the Cleveland Clinic on April 17 to live in a nearby apartment with his family. "It's hospital policy for < ...
Council Post: Rotationplasty: Turning Disability Into Ability For Young Cancer Patients
Forbes· 1 day agoSays I Can't Foundation. Osteosarcoma is rare, yet it’s the most common form of bone cancer among...
Small pump for kids awaiting heart transplant shows promise
Science Daily· 3 days agoThe pump, a new type of ventricular assist device, or VAD, is surgically attached to the heart to augment its blood-pumping action in individuals with heart failure, allowing time to find a ...
Can an organ transplant really change someone's personality?
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoIn another case, a 45-year-old man remarked how, since receiving the heart of a 17-year-old boy, he loves to put on headphones and listen to loud music—something he had never done before the ...
Trumping pandemic preparedness
Politico· 23 hours agoAccording to HHS, 32 percent of the more than 100,000 people awaiting an organ transplant in 2021 were African American, but only 13.5 percent of recipients from a living ...
