THE BLUEPRINT: Northwell Health approved to start Long Island‘s first adult pancreas transplant program. Program adds to Northwell Transplant Institute’s existing kidney, heart, liver and lung services. Launch…
Read more Northwell is launching first adult pancreas transplant program | Long Island Business NewsHARRISBURG, Pa. — Fernando Moreno has been on dialysis for about two years, enduring an “unbearable” wait for a new kidney to save his life. His limited world…
Read more To find living donors for kidney transplants, a pilot program turns to social networksTake our short survey to help identify barriers, inform policy, and ensure our community has a fair chance at life-saving transplants. There’s a sobering inequity at the heart…
Read more We Want to Hear From You on Organ DonationAs part of its efforts to strengthen the country’s organ transplant system, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it is moving to decertify a major…
Read more HHS moves to shut down major organ donation group in latest steps to reform nation’s transplant systemWASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved Thursday to shut down a Miami organ donation group, calling it “failing” because of underperformance, unsafe practices and paperwork errors. The Life…
Read more Trump administration to close Miami organ donation group it calls ‘failing’In an effort to make sure organ transplant matches are fair, the Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new public online tracking tool. In an…
Read more New public dashboard aims to track the fairness of the allocation of organ donations – WTOP NewsThe tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung into a living…
Read more In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig LungALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — It’s National Donate Life Month, a time meant to encourage people to sign up for organ donation. Lia Nissan of Saratoga teamed up with…
Read more Raising awareness for National Donate Life MonthJulian Harmon assists doctors, nurses and patients in the operating rooms where organ transplants are performed at Temple University Hospital. Harmon also has lived with kidney disease for…
Read more A Temple Hospital worker needed a kidney transplant. When the call finally came, his colleague performed itA freshman football player at Rocky Mountain College was fatally shot over the weekend and police in Billings, Montana have arrested a 16-year-old suspect ByThe Associated Press October…
Read more A 16-year-old is arrested in the fatal shooting of a Rocky Mountain College student-athleteNEW YORK — Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. Her brother suddenly collapsed and days later was brain-dead. Now she faced a tough question: Would she donate his…
Read more How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplantsNEW YORK — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the…
Read more Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplantsPHILADELPHIA — Two former Marines bonded by a kidney donation and their love of are now headed to the Super Bowl. John Gladwell, a Kansas City resident and…
Read more Marines, bonded by kidney donation, now head to Super BowlFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Richard Blodgett, a single father, was jailed on a drug charge when a worker from Arizona’s child welfare agency delivered the news: His son was…
Read more Arizona dad seeking answers after son dies in state careCNN — Marzena Stasieluk needed a new kidney. She’d been diagnosed with kidney disease in 2015, and ultimately needed dialysis, a grueling process where a machine did the…
Read more Nurse becomes a living organ donor for her mom — twice | CNNNEW YORK — Brittany Newton’s family grieved last spring when her life was cut short, at age 30, by a brain aneurysm. But they got to feel close…
Read more HIV-positive heart donor’s family, recipient meetBy Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The difference between age 69 and age 70 is, of course, just a single year. Yet,…
Read more 69 vs. 70: Bias Against Older Organ Donors May Be Costing Lives
