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

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

March 31, 2021

KENYA: Urine will be vital in kidney transplant (VIDEO)

Kidney, urine sample and a form. It is estimated that 1.7 million people globally die of acute kidney injury annually. In Kenya, about five million Kenyans suffer from kidney-related conditions with

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March 27, 2021

Robin Roberts Said This ‘GMA’ Co-Host Sent Her ‘One of the Most Thoughtful E-Mails’ She Ever Received (VIDEO)

Robin Roberts of Good Morning America is one of television’s most beloved broadcast journalists. Often sharing personal stories from her own life, Roberts was very open about her second cancer

March 24, 2021

AUSTRALIA: Funnel-web spider venom may one day help save the lives of heart transplant patients

Striding along a sandy track, a group of scientists is doing something kids are warned not to do: looking for funnel-web spiders. Leading the pack, known as the "bugs-and-drugs squad", is

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March 2, 2021

UK: Heart transplant breakthrough: NHS doctors become first in world to complete transplants in children using organs brought back to life by a machine (VIDEO)

The technique has saved the lives of six British youngsters and the transplants have all happened during the coronavirus pandemic. A 14-year-old girl has told Sky News she feels "blessed to

February 15, 2021

VIDEO: Valentine’s Day Special for Largest Transplant Games Ever <3

The USA transplant community was ready to welcome people from all over the globe this year in what would have been the largest and most dynamic gathering of organ transplant

February 13, 2021

20/20 special: How TV producer Benita Alexander unknowingly became ensnared in fraudulent romance with star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini

Hundreds of Benita Alexander's friends and family had already bought their plane tickets to Italy to attend her extravagant wedding that was supposed to be officiated by the pope when

February 5, 2021

(VIDEO) ‘I Am Honored to Be Your Mother’: Miracle Baby Survives COVID & Liver Transplant Before 1st Birthday (Watch)

*When Kasen Donerlson of Syracuse, New York, was born on Jan. 14, 2020, he spent several days in the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU) due to breathing issues and jaundice

February 4, 2021

INDIA: (VIDEO) Who needs a Liver transplant? Symptoms, causes, precautions and more

A liver transplant is a surgical procedure involving the removal of the liver that is damaged and replacing it with a healthy liver from a deceased or living donor. It

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