Springfield family hopes transplant story encourages others to donate
This week, 39-year-old Brian Yontz donated a kidney to his 67-year-old father, Rick Yontz, at the Comprehensive Transplant Center of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. But the Springfield...
View ArticleFirst U.S. Uterine Transplant Fails
In a sad development for the patient, the medical team at the Cleveland Clinic and prospective parents, comes news the first uterine transplant performed in the US has failed. The complex, eight-hour...
View ArticleTransplanted trees in Colorado Springs symbolize lives saved by organ donors
A pounding heart and sweaty brow voiced Eva Krynovich's thanks Sunday. The 68-year-old heart transplant recipient helped plant hundreds of trees at Red Rocks Open Space, to honor of organ and tissue...
View ArticleHeart comes for free but transplant cost hits patients
Bengaluru: Last year, a private hospital in the city did its first heart transplant. The lucky recipient was Kolkata-based Vika (name changed). The 28-year-old, who comes from an economically weak...
View ArticleDead donors' kin to get priority in kidney transplants
NEW DELHI: A patient who has earlier donated a kidney or is a close relative of a person whose organ was donated after death will get preference in allocation of deceased donor kidneys, according to...
View ArticleLouisiana, Alabama families meet after heart transplant
OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — Emotions, adrenaline and uneasiness abounded as Jonathan and Holley Perry traveled from Monroe, Louisiana, to east Alabama to meet Tucker, Amanda and Davis Boswell for the first...
View ArticleSpring beauty routines and the new Softsoap Luminous Body Wash
Spring is a good time to reassess your beauty routine—either find time to do new procedures such as, facial exercise, weekly pore cleaning or nightly skin polishing. Sunday night is usually a trigger...
View ArticleSolon pushes for a strengthened human organ donation and transplantation...
(Source: Congress of the Philippines) you are here » Home » Press Releases Solon pushes for a strengthened human organ donation and transplantation program Total views: 7 26 April 2016 09:14:25 AM...
View ArticleKamothe hospital performs a successful kidney transplant
NAVI MUMBAI: A 27 year old resident of Kalamboli, Ankush Pandurang Diwase underwent a successful kidney transplant, after a previous renal transplant failed due to rejection. The surgery was done...
View ArticleTransplant Recipients Meet Donors for First Time at City of Hope’s 40th Bone...
DUARTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acclaimed television producer Steven Bochco and teenage transplant recipient will meet their donors for the first time at City of Hope's 40th Annual Bone Marrow...
View ArticleReal life Ken doll’s nose is disintegrating
The air steward who spent more than $430,000 to look like a real life Ken doll has been rushed to hospital after a hole appeared in his nose. Rodrigo Alves is being treated in Malaga, Spain, suffering...
View ArticleFar more than a job (UC Davis Health System)
(Source: UC Davis Health System) FEATURE | Posted April 20, 2016 Living kidney donation is personal for UC Davis transplant nurse UC Davis Transplant Center nurse Sharon Stencel (middle, left) donated...
View Article16-year-old Latur boy undergoes successful heart transplant
--> Tide seems to have changed for Latur residents. On Tuesday, the drought-hit city received around 5 lakh litres of water through trains and on Wednesday, a 16-year-old boy from Latur received a...
View ArticleTransplant recipients meet donors for first time at City of Hope’s 40th Bone...
(Source: City of Hope National Medical Center) Transplant recipients meet donors for first time at City of Hope's 40th Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion April 21, 2016 CONTACT Letisia Marquez 626-218-3398...
View ArticleIn Honor of National Donate Life Month, Transplant Recipients at Memorial...
(Source: Memorial Hermann Health System) HOUSTON (April 15, 2016) Scores of transplant patients recently gathered at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (TMC) to celebrate their health and thank the...
View ArticleUterus transplants are extremely risky. Doctors should keep doing them anyway.
One day after Cleveland Clinic doctors hailed the first uterine transplant in the US a success last month, the prestigious medical center said the operation had, in fact, failed. At the time, the...
View ArticleWoman With Malformed Arteries Has Balloons Placed In Face Ready For...
A woman with a rare and painful health condition has had balloons placed under her skin in preparation for life-changing surgery. Jennifer Hiles, 28, suffers from arterial venous malformation (AVM),...
View Article7 FDA Approved Cosmetic Skin Treatments for the ever Youthful Facial Appearance
Nature dictates that with age, your skin cells die off and you grow old. Your face gets wrinkled, rough and ugly. But, who wants to look old when they can beat nature and look youthful and ageless for...
View ArticleGrateful Colorado organ recipient strives "to be worthy of that gift"
Wes Cook and Cody Crosby shared a love for motorcycles. Cancer and a car crash led them to share something more profound Wes Cook sits on his motorcycle Tuesday while wearing the leather jacket that...
View ArticleYeast Infection Derailed First U.S. Uterus Transplant
Cleveland Clinic/Handout via Reuters The Cleveland Clinic revealed Friday why the first U.S. uterus transplant failed last month: a common yeast...
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