A Las Vegas mother contracted COVID-19 while pregnant. Her family is now pleading for help with raising $2.5 million to cover a lung transplant.
Chelsea Jovanovich met Cheryl Urban, her uterine donor in May 2021, days before giving birth to her son. Now, the two call each other "soul sisters."
Matthew Moore, of North Carolina, happened to be in the right place at the right time to be first recipient of CARMAT's total artificial heart.
Brian Flynn gave his brother's friend a kidney in 2019. A year later, he decided to do it again to help during the pandemic.
Since the coronavirus upended society in just a matter of months, I’ve been thinking about Bozeman, Montana. My memory winds back to the morning of March 5, 2009, when a natural-gas explosion killed one local woman and shattered buildings on the eastern side of the city’s Main Street Historic District. […]
A 61-year-old woman with cirrhosis was denied a liver transplant when doctors suspected she had a drinking problem. She had tested positive for alcohol use despite claiming she didn’t drink. The woman actually had a rare disorder called auto-brewery syndrome, when the body produces alcohol internally due to bacteria and […]
On December 3, a 36-year-old man in Serbia became the third known person to receive a testicle transplant. When a man’s testicles are nonexistent, he experiences both reproductive- and hormone-related problems, Dr. Bobby Najari, the director of the Male Fertility Program at NYU Langone Health, told Insider. But testicle transplants […]
A Duke University medical team became the first in the U.S. to successfully transplant a previously-dead adult heart, a procedure known as “donation after circulatory death” or DCD. The procedure could dramatically increase the number of transplant hearts available for patients in need, allowing for up to 30% more donors […]
A hospital in Camden, New Jersey, accidentally transplanted a kidney into the wrong patient. Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital said the patient who got the kidney had the same name and was of a “similar age” to the woman who was actually supposed to get the transplant. Both patients […]
The average billed cost of a heart transplant is an estimated $US1,382,400, according to consulting firm Milliman, and other organs aren’t much cheaper. Doctors say transplant centres are strong revenue sources for hospitals; they charge high service fees, which factor into the overall cost, to help meet their bottom line. […]
Damien, 13, lives with a kidney disorder called Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). He has been undergoing treatment for years and awaiting a transplant. However, he has been told he will not be eligible to be placed on a list until he is living in a “stable home.” So, his maths […]
Six months ago, Starr Gardy saw a sign that she says changed the course of her life, she told Good Morning America. The sign was on the window of Lashonda Pugh’s car, asking for someone to donate their kidney to her son Daniel Jones Jr. Jones lives with Alport syndrome, […]
Celebrities are not immune to health issues. Several celebrities have had organ transplants, with kidney transplants being the most common. Some celebrities have even donated their own organs after death. In recent years, many celebrities have been candid about their health journeys, sharing stories about everything from everyday wellness to […]
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