December 6, 2021

Community hosts bone marrow registry drive to help save Atlanta boy’s life | News (VIDEO)

COBB COUNTY, Ga. (CBS46) – A few minutes of your time could potentially save the life of 10-year-old Carter Soriano of Atlanta or someone like him. That’s the message at Truist

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Liver Transplants

Sports

December 6, 2021

Liver transplant, marathon part of an extraordinary year for two Bob Jones alumni | Greenville News

By Eric Connor [email protected] GREENVILLE — Facebook is often a place where pressing the "like" button is dismissed as innocuous acknowledgement or pored over for hidden meaning. It's the realm of "thoughts and

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Kidney Transplants

Legislation

November 24, 2021

MUSC kidney transplant wait times to increase following new national allocation system

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina say the average wait time for a kidney transplant at MUSC is three and a half years. Last month,

November 17, 2021

Kidney transplant connects two Oklahoma National Guardsman for life (VIDEO)

OKLAHOMA CITY —During Greg Randolph’s last official military physical exam, he was diagnosed with degenerative kidney disease after serving 24 years in the Oklahoma National Guard. Until recently, the condition was

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Donation

Lung Transplants

November 17, 2021

After organ donation, Smith family meets the man who received Tyronzen Smith’s lungs

Charmin Porter Smith uses a stethoscope to listen to Gary Davis’s chest Saturday afternoon. Smith’s sons’ organs and tissues were donated after they were killed in a car accident on

November 17, 2021

World’s First Artificial Heart Transplant on a Female Shows Promising Result, Gives Hope to Wider Variety of Patients (VIDEO)

Cardiothoracic surgeons from the University of Louisville Health - Jewish Hospital and the University of Louisville performed the first-ever Aeson bioprosthetic total artificial heart implantation on a 57-year-old woman from

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Advocacy

Bone Marrow Transplants

November 10, 2021

Diego’s miracle: The lives saved by one man’s battle with cancer

Diego sat up wearily in the hospital bed that had been a position of purgatory for him too many times already. It was early January 2020. A bone marrow transplant at

November 10, 2021

CANADA: Hospital carries out world’s first drone-delivered lung transplant (VIDEO)

A Canadian hospital has carried out the world’s first ever lung transplant where the organ was delivered by a drone. The unmanned aircraft flew the lungs on a six-minute journey from

November 10, 2021

University of Chicago Medicine’s heart transplant program named highest-performing in U.S. (VIDEO)

CHICAGO — The University of Chicago Medicine’s heart transplant program has been named the high-performing in the U.S. Only 14 of 143 heart transplant programs in the U.S. earned a five-star

November 10, 2021

Teenager Badly In Need Of Liver Transplant Miraculously Recovers Thanks To Quick-Working Dialysis Machine – CBS New York (VIDEO)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Try to imagine being a healthy high school student, and out of the blue one day you’re in liver failure so bad you may only have

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