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Her husband died waiting on a Houston hospital’s liver transplant list. Now she intends to take...
Houston Public Media· 4 hours agoIt was last year that 56-year-old Melanie Crowel learned her husband Ron’s liver condition had taken...
Paying back the time: Black patients unfairly kept off transplant list get credit due
The Post and Courier· 13 hours agoAt MUSC in downtown Charleston, that amounted to more than 800 years of wait time that...medicine...
SMART LIVING: HIV positive and donating organs
WAFB Baton Rouge· 10 hours agoOne woman is working with lawmakers to change the system, allowing more people, even people who are HIV positive, to donate their organs. More than one...
Pennsylvania Hospital Suspends Its Liver Transplant Program
New York Times· 5 hours agoHershey Medical Center was the second time this month that a hospital has taken this rare step. A...
Pig Kidney Transplants Are Medicine’s New Arms Race
Bloomberg· 13 hours agoCompanies are vying to end the shortage in donated organs. The real winners will be the patients struggling to get off the wait-list. Lisa Jarvis is a...
NHS calls for more living donors amid organ shortage
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe number of patients on the transplant waiting list is at its highest in a decade but organ donor numbers – for both the deceased and ...
New technology is helping make organ transplants easier and better — and saving more lives
CBS News· 7 days agoA vigil in Delaware County over the weekend remembered Damien Hocker, a 17-year-old killed in an...
Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in bid to extend a woman’s life
NBC NEWS· 5 days agoDoctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a...
She Didn't Qualify for a Transplant—So Now She Has Two Pig Organs
Wired News· 5 days agoA 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically...
Couples from Markham, Orland Park share their lives by sharing kidneys
Chicago Tribune· 4 hours agoPhil Allen’s 25th anniversary present to his wife, Meghan, will be hard to top — he gave her one of...
