A group of doctors is asking for permission to remove insulin-producing cells from the pancreas of a brain-dead person for transplantation into a diabetes patient, sources said. The group is considering performing the procedure on about 20 diabetes pat…
In 1994, doctors told Jim Lunder he had probably five years to live.
TOKYO _ The Japanese Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (JPITA) is preparing for the nation's first transplantation of pancreatic islets from a brain-dead donor to a patient with Type 1 diabetes, it was learned Saturday. The preparation…
He met with an accident on his way to a funeral last week; had begun moving into his new house just a day earlier
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Barcelona and Spain defender Carles Puyol will be out of action for around six weeks and miss Euro 2012 after having successful surgery on his injured right knee, doctors confirmed on Saturday. Described by Spain coach Vicente del…
A Kingsport woman in desperate need of a heart transplant received the gift of life and didn't even know it.
Simon Keith became the first person to ever play professional sports after having a heart transplant.
TORONTO – Helene Campbell is back at her “home away from home” in Toronto. A blog post from her mother, Manon, says the 21-year-old double lung transplant recipient from Ottawa has been discharged from Toronto General Hospital and is “feeling wel…
BUCHAREST, Romania A Romanian baby born with virtually no intestines who confounded doctors by tenaciously clinging to life and captured international attention and offers of medical help, died on Thursday. He was nine months old.
A boy who swallowed eight magnetic beads a month ago faces a long road to recovery. Doctors had to remove most of one-year-old Braylon Jordan's intestine to repair the damage the magnets caused. He is now waiting for a transplant