For Lacy Cornelius Boyd, March 19, 2024, was an exciting day. She and her husband had taken their 6-year-old daughter to the Grand Canyon as part of a…
Read more A head-on car crash sidelined a young mom. A rare transplant was the only option to get her life back.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 NewsWatch CBS News Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced new action to reform the nation’s organ transplant system, as well as a move to…
Read more RFK Jr. moves to decertify organ transplant groupWashington — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Thursday new action to reform the nation’s organ transplant system, as well as a a…
Read more RFK Jr. announces move to decertify organ procurement organization amid efforts to reform organ donationIt’s an Eagan, Minnesota woman’s continued legacy. After Adelyn Miller died in 2023, her organs saved five lives, and four of those she saved gathered together to live…
Read more Organ donor recipients gather to honor woman who save their livesIn 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 NewsA Blaine, Minnesota, boy is home after 246 days in the hospital with a new heart thanks to a donor. “Getting a heart is not an easy journey,…
Read more Twin Cities teen discharged from Mayo Clinic with new heart after 246-day-long stayChina’s President Xi Jinping and his visiting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed life-prolonging organ transplants and immortality as they chatted before a massive military parade in Beijing on…
Read more Putin and China’s Xi heard on hot mic discussing life-prolonging organ transplants and immortalityAs children, sisters Amaris and Dominique Elston were inseparable. Their parents remember the two of them sharing everything and always having each others’ backs, no matter the situation. …
Read more Her little sister needed a kidney. The donation let them both live their dreamsFor the first time, surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed a combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant, helping a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney…
Read more Doctors perform first-ever combined heart pump and pig kidney transplantA study published in the American Journal of Transplantation recently shows that organs that come from donors with a history of recent cannabis use don’t show signs of…
Read more Organs from Cannabis Consumers Don’t Pose Risks of Infection | High TimesNEW YORK — Doctors in Boston announced Thursday they have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient. Massachusetts General Hospital said it’s the first time a genetically…
Read more US surgeons transplant genetically modified pig kidney into patient
