BOSTON (Reuters) – A Texas woman who lost all four limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria has been approved for a double arm transplant at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital in what will be the first such procedure performed in the United States. …
Jodie Vasquez (pictured), from Carlisle, has a connective tissue disorder which means she suffers constant pain and needs a wheelchair as her joints dislocate easily. She has not eaten since 2009.
Jodie Vasquez (pictured), from Carlisle, has a connective tissue disorder which means she suffers constant pain and needs a wheelchair as her joints dislocate easily. She has not eaten since 2009.
BRAVE teen Jodie Vasquez today tells how her mum has to carry out a potentially lethal procedure on her every night in order to keep her alive.
Travis Schwarz with his parents, D'Ann Moore and Ray Schwarz. (Photo courtesy of D'Ann Moore) Petaluma is the can-do community.
A fundraiser planned to aid Escondido boy Eli Olsen has been rescheduled from Sept. 8. to Oct. 13.
The life of a 16-year-old girl was saved by getting 190 cm of small intestine from her father, Xi'an Evening News reported on Aug 21. Zhang Yan, from Huining county, Gansu province, had an infected small intestine and was sent to a hospital in Xi&#…
It was a too-long wait for a kidney that killed former Harrison Town Clerk Joseph Acocella in August of last year. It was the timely transplant of several organs that saved 10-year-old Acacia Puleo.
The current Ramadan organ donation campaign which has been held in major shopping malls across Doha has been highly successful in getting both Qatari and foreign residents to contribute actively by joining the organ donor register, a Hamad Medical Corp…
There are always claims over fruit or fruit drinks and their health benefits. A daily glass of grapefruit juice lets patients derive the same benefits from an anti-cancer drug as they would get from more than three times as much of the drug by itself, …