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8-Year-old Heart Transplant Patient Craved Pickles so Hospital Chef Taught Her How to Make Them
An 8-year-old girl awaiting a heart transplant had the time of her life when a hospital affiliate came and taught her how to make...
International Team Successfully Restarts Animal Brain, Offering Hope for Heart Attack Treatment, Better Transplants
An international team of neurosurgeons and organ transplant specialists recently discovered that a brain can be revived 50 minutes after being removed from the...
Lab-Grown Blood Stem Cells Could Replace Bone Marrow Donations for Transplants
A team of Australian researchers has developed a method to morph personalized stem cells into hematopoietic stem cells, something that would promise risk-free bone...
Titanium Maglev Heart Implanted Successfully in a Patient for First Time May Help Others Waiting for a Transplant
In a highly-anticipated world-first, the Texas Heart Institute has successfully implanted an artificial titanium heart that uses the same technology as bullet trains to...
New Tech Revives ‘Unusable’ Organs–10 Successful Transplants Used Kidneys That Are Normally Discarded
New technologies are often referred to as life-changing, but that phrase quite literally describes the work that 34 Lives is doing for those awaiting...
World’s First Whole-Eye Transplant Gives Arkansas Man New Hope After Terrible Accident
In a 21-hour procedure, 140 surgeons and attendants completed the first whole eyeball transplant on a military veteran who had suffered a near-fatal electrocution.
Replacing...
Believe it or Not, Leprosy Offers the Potential to Regenerate Livers – Cutting Transplant Wait Times
Leprosy has appeared in medical literature as far back as there has been medical literature, but its latest appearance doesn't involve talk of a...
U.S. Gives First Ever Approval to Gut Microbiota Transplant Therapy
For years scientists have been demonstrating the therapeutic potential of gut microbiota transplants in mice for a variety of medical conditions; now the FDA...
Historic Operating Room Uncovered During Renovations May Be Site of the First Human Organ Transplant
During recent renovations to a clinic and office space in the second largest teaching hospital at Harvard Medical School, construction crews uncovered remnants of...
3D-Printed Ear is Made and Transplanted From Patient’s Living Cells
In a major advance in the field of biological 3D-printing, a firm has successfully transplanted a printed ear made from a patient's own stem...
First Artificial Kidney That Would Free People From Dialysis and Transplants Runs on Blood Pressure
The Kidney Project’s implantable bioartificial kidney, one that promises to free kidney disease patients from dialysis machines and transplant waiting lists, took another big...
Japanese Doctors Perform World’s First Living Donor Lung Transplant on COVID-19 Patient
A COVID-19 patient in Japan has received the world's first lung transplant from living donors.
Receiving transplant lung tissue from her son and husband, the...
Most Advanced Artificial Heart Approved For Sale in Europe, Raising Hopes for Those Awaiting Transplants
A French firm that has long been testing and refining an artificial heart is ready to begin sale of the device in the second...
Another Record-Setting Organ Donation Year in the U.S. in 2019; Transplant Rate in 2020 Stays Strong
New organ donation records were set in 2019 for the tenth consecutive year in the United States.
Health care teams across the country performed nearly...
Goal of Plentiful Organ Transplants Moves Closer to Reality as Scientists Grow Tiny Working Livers from Skin Cells
Researchers from Pittsburgh are growing tiny functional human livers out of skin cells and transplanting them in rats as proof-of-concept for organ supply
In a Revolutionary Medical Treatment, Man’s Lung Was Removed, Cleaned, and Replaced—No Transplant Necessary
The procedure, which has only been conducted a few times in history, could be a groundbreaking new treatment for patients suffering from lung cancer.
For the First Time in the US, Surgeons Pump New Life into Dead Donor Heart for Life-Saving Transplant
The revived heart was successfully transplanted into a military veteran who is now faring quite well after the surgery, according to Duke University.
Nurse Adopted Man With Autism After Knowing Him Just 2 Days So He Could Receive a Heart Transplant
Jonathan Pinkard was finally able to receive a heart transplant thanks to a compassionate hospital nurse who volunteered to adopt him.
Two Patients Make History After Essentially Being Cured of HIV Using Stem Cell Transplant
It has been a little over 12 years since a Berlin man became the first patient to ever be cured of HIV – and now, two more patients may have joined him.
‘Game-Changing’ Approval of Liver Transplant Procedure Expected to Halve the Waiting List
After its successful assessment and approval, this “ground-breaking” procedure is expected to halve the amount of people waiting for liver transplants.