Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York
City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a
different task altogether: saving the dead
Some 15,000 Americans are on a waiting list for a liver transplant, and it is a grueling - and ghoulish - vigil. Most organs available for transplant come from someone who has died in an accident. And more than 6,000 patients will die waiting for a transplant each year.
Foreigners will be permanently banned from receiving kidneys for transplant in the Philippines to prevent the country from becoming a major black market Asian center
A respected California transplant doctor faces charges he hastened a comatose man's death to retrieve his organs -- a far-reaching case that could impact the nation's organ donation industry.
It's been a busy week for Rihanna, but when the Grammy-winning singer learned about a leukemia-stricken New York City mom of two who desperately needs a marrow transplant, she immediately stepped forward to help.
The alleged mastermind of a kidney transplant scheme in India has admitted to his involvement in about 300 transplants over the last 12 to 13 years, police said Friday.
Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York
City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a
different task altogether: saving the dead
Some 15,000 Americans are on a waiting list for a liver transplant, and it is a grueling - and ghoulish - vigil. Most organs available for transplant come from someone who has died in an accident. And more than 6,000 patients will die waiting for a transplant each year.
Foreigners will be permanently banned from receiving kidneys for transplant in the Philippines to prevent the country from becoming a major black market Asian center
A respected California transplant doctor faces charges he hastened a comatose man's death to retrieve his organs -- a far-reaching case that could impact the nation's organ donation industry.
It's been a busy week for Rihanna, but when the Grammy-winning singer learned about a leukemia-stricken New York City mom of two who desperately needs a marrow transplant, she immediately stepped forward to help.
The alleged mastermind of a kidney transplant scheme in India has admitted to his involvement in about 300 transplants over the last 12 to 13 years, police said Friday.
Last week SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed Everson Walls for the magazine's Q&A. The retired Cowboy donated a kidney to ex-teammate Ron Springs last February. Here are additional excepts from their conversation:
An Ecuadoran lawyer leading a landmark environmental lawsuit, a U.S. expatriate who encourages attendance at rural African schools and a Ugandan missionary who runs a boarding school for girls abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army were given special recognition at "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" Thursday night.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
A Kentucky man who had been on the lam for more than a year after he was released from jail to donate a kidney to his son was captured in Mexico on Wednesday, a deputy U.S. Marshal said.
In 1982, transplant surgeon Dr. Clive Callender and his colleagues sat down to took a look at African-American organ donation numbers, and they were grim.
What lengths would you go to for health or well-being? Would you get plastic surgery in Mexico? Or buy fertility drugs on the black market? Or get a potentially life-saving organ if you weren't certain of its origin?
A Kentucky teenager whose dad went on the lam after being let out of jail to donate a kidney to his ailing son has successfully undergone a kidney transplant.
Dr. Heather Ross, medical director of the cardiac transplant program at Toronto General Hospital, doesn't just recommend rehab, she lives it with her patients.
Rabies spread by organs taken from an infected donor has killed three transplant recipients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
If a patient is suffering from progressive primary biliary cirrhosis, a fatal liver disease, there are two possible scenarios: (1) He dies, which until not long ago was the only outcome; (2) He re...
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Here's applause for your article on the chronically ill child, which I read as the parent of a child with kidney disease to whom I donated a kidney. I hope your article increases the awareness of t...
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* EACH NEW ADVANCE in high-technology medicine sharpens the debate over tortuous ethical questions -- who should receive treatment with these expensive new technologies, who should pay, and who sho...
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