This Valentine's Day, National Donor Day emphasizes importance of organ donation in Colorado
While we are out celebrating Valentine's Day, it is important to also give back for National Donor Day. In the state of ...
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Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants Hit Long-Awaited Testing Milestone
Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...
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Illinois woman thrives after rare dual organ transplant
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair Jennifer Homendy provides an update Friday into the investigation of the ...
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‘What a beautiful thing’: Woman dedicates herself to organ donations after son’s heart transplant
As a Montana organ recovery coordinator, Megan Truman spends a lot of time helping grieving families. Organ donation is a ...
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
The amazing story of how a cooler and app have transformed organ transplants
What started as a conversation about a new app, became a story about how new technology from a company called Paragonix has ...
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
Handmade, from the heart: See crocheters' healing gifts for organ donor families
This nonprofit's volunteers are lovingly creating keepsakes for those who donated their loved ones' organs to save others.
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Organ Transplants From Different Species Risky and Costly, New Paper Argues
Organ xenotransplantation, the transplantation of genetically engineered organs from pigs to humans, is not a viable solution ...
F.D.A. Approves Studies of Pig Organ Transplants for Kidney Patients
The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...
Health Affairs8d
The Organ Transplantation System Is Inequitable. Modernized Data Can Help Fix That
In the absence of accessible, integrated, multidimensional patient data, the organ transplant system will remain both highly ...
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A new heart for Valentine: Illinois woman thrives after rare dual organ transplant
CHICAGO - This Valentine’s Day, we heard from a woman who recently underwent a rare dual organ transplant. Doctors gave Laura Valentine a new heart and liver. Valentine, 35, was born with only half a ...