AUSTIN — True gifts from the heart were celebrated at Seton Medical Center Tuesday. In the last 25 years, Seton has performed more than 338 heart transplant surgeries. Both doctors and patients say the holidays are the perfect time to reflect on tha…
Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez of the University Medical Center explains on March 27 the full face transplant performed on Richard Lee Norris. / AP After a gun accident took off half his face, Richard Lee Norris spent 15 years living as a recluse in Hillsvil…
Brygette Park is ‘basically a normal kindergarten student’ after a bone marrow transplant in 2010.
Bella, a border collie, faces a "ruff" recovery after a first-of-its-kind surgery. Bella seriously injured her leg falling off furniture three months ago. But thanks to landmark muscle transplant surgery performed at Angell Animal Medical Cen…
KOTA KINABALU: If everything goes well, a Sabah Transplant Resource Centre will be set up at Queen Elizabeth Hospital I soon.
KOTA KINABALU: At least 15,000 patients are waiting for kidney transplant nationwide. “And the number continues to rise, […]
Ernesto Bravo Chavez, 12, of Palm Springs, received a kidney transplant when he was five years old. He has since become very close to the family of his donor, Gabriel Barajas, of Los Angeles, an Iraq veteran who was part of the Special Forces Team that…
Aging Hepatitis C Population Escalates Demand for Liver TransplantationScience Daily (press release)Findings in the December issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disea…
Baby boomers with liver cancer drive demand for liver transplantationNews-Medical.netNew research reveals that the greatest demand for liver transplantation due to hepatitis C (HCV)-related liver disease occurs among Americans born between 1941 and 196…
3 thousand people need kidney transplantation in KazakhstanTengrinewsApproximately, there are around 3 thousand patients requiring kidney transplantation, around 800 people waiting for heart transplantation and around 1,000 patients in need of liver tr…