April 21, 2021

Double lung, kidney transplant patient takes first steps (VIDEO)

"It’s very real and you don’t realize it until it happens to someone that you love. And it doesn’t discriminate on age, color, nothing," Tori Vondenstein said. HOUSTON — Colby Vondenstein

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April 21, 2021

ROMANIA: Romania concludes agreement with Italy for lung transplant patients

Romanian patients waiting for a lung transplant will be able to undergo the procedure in Italy following an agreement concluded between Romania’s Ministry of Health and the Italian authorities, health

April 15, 2021

U.S. surgeons perform successful “COVID to COVID” double-lung transplant (Video)

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago successfully transplanted both lungs on a COVID-19 patient using them from a donor who previously recovered from the virus. Dr. Samuel Kim, a thoracic

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April 14, 2021

SCOTLAND: Scotland’s opt-out law for organ donation comes into force

Scotland’s new opt-out law for organ donation comes into force today, which it is hoped will lead to an increase in the numbers of transplants. Under the legislation, if an adult

April 14, 2021

UK: Peterhead lung transplant recipient backs organ and tissue opt out awareness campaign

A Peterhead woman who received a life-changing double lung transplant is urging people to make their organ and tissue donation decision known ahead of the law change to an opt-out

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March 31, 2021

Social Work researcher advances literature on pediatric quality of life in organ transplant patients

A Florida State University professor is paving the way for social workers, psychologists and transplant teams across the country to increase the quality of life for children who have received

March 27, 2021

UPMC Hamot doctor, Carl Seon, M.D., recovering from double-lung transplant (VIDEO)

Carl Seon, M.D., can get out of bed on his own and slowly walk around his UPMC Presbyterian hospital room. These are small, but important, steps as the 51-year-old UPMC Hamot

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March 27, 2021

IRELAND: Cavan transplantees promote Organ Donor Awareness Week

Stephen Smith from Castletara Gleb_Photography_0868874482 The incredible stories of two Cavan transplant recipients featured as part of the online national launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week 2021, which runs from March

March 24, 2021

CANADA: March is Kidney month but it’s so much more than that

By Stan Ashbee on March 10, 2021. March is Kidney Month and Mar. 11 is World Kidney Day. As a kidney patient, Jan Clemis was diagnosed over 40 years ago with kidney

March 24, 2021

Push is on for Montana to ban organ transplant discrimination ~ Missoula Current

On Feb. 8, a bill nicknamed “Griffin’s Law” passed the Montana Senate 49-0. The bill is named for Griffin Dalrymple (left), whose mom, Jayci (right), campaigned for legislation that would

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