The complex surgery involved transplanting composite tissue from the central part of the face and required the participation ...

Wellness Wednesday is sponsored by Intermountain Health. Sometimes doing everything right isn’t enough. Erika Morton was only 35 when she learned she needed a new liver. She was athletic and ...

The Intermountain Transplant Program celebrated completing 515 transplants and changing lives in an event at Intermountain ...

ROCHESTER — As Rachel Handleton, Justin Kaus and their partners waited in a Mayo Clinic exam room for Dr. Hassan Alkhateeb, they reminisced about the first time they met each other: It was April 2020, ...

It’s not every day someone gets to meet the person who saved their life, but that’s exactly what happened Thursday during a ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - “I’m just happy he no longer looks like a Simpson doll,” Ryan Binkley jokes, “He’s back to his regular, happy skin glow. Full of life, full of energy.” Ryan Binkley is talking ...

The transplant recipient fell ill and died in January 2024, just weeks after receiving a kidney transplant Getty (2) A Michigan man died of rabies after receiving a donor kidney from a man who was ...

EIGHT NEWS AT TEN. FOR ALL OF YOU GUYS TO KNOW HOW MUCH CLOSURE THIS GIVES ME AND AN OTHERWISE ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE WORLD. YEAH, IT WAS HEARTBREAKING. AND EMOTIONAL REUNION. A GROUP OF DONOR RECIPIENTS ...

The film, “End the Wait,” follows two Georgia men whose kidney transplant journey inspired a nationwide push to save lives.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The transmission of tuberculosis from a donor organ to a transplant recipient may result in spread of the bacteria outside of the lungs, leading to a wide-spread infection, ...

Four adults developed breast cancer after receiving vital organs from a donor. Four adults in the United Kingdom developed breast cancer after receiving vital organs from a single donor -- three of ...

Although it’s of vital importance that parents and donors be adequately counseled before using a donor or donating, all too often, research demonstrates this is not the case. One 2013 published study ...