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Son Finds Kidney for Mom on Craigslist
Cindy Prettyman, 65, of Glen Dale, West Virginia, (pictured, right) was told she'd have to wait five years to receive an organ transplant -...
Top 6 Books for Growing Your Own Produce
Nothing can compare with the freshness and incredible flavor of home grown fruits, herbs and vegetables. My family can hardly wait to harvest the...
Digital Artist Creates Magical Worlds For Seriously Ill Kids
A Canadian photographer is taking the wildest dreams of sick children and turning them into reality. Since May of 2012 Shawn Van Daele has...
Random Stadium Seats Leads to Life Saving Donation
In October 2013, Louis Munoz donated one of his kidneys to William Lynch. The organ match would not have occurred without a bit of...
Calif. Firefighters Shave Heads In Support Of Kids With Cancer
“Whenever we can help a sick kid, we’re going to do everything we can,” said one Orange City firefighter Tuesday as he and his...
Drug Trial for Autism Shows Promise
After joining a clinical trial at Boston Children’s Hospital, seven-year-old Katie Mills started to speak in complete sentences for the first time, her 30-second...
Canadian Girl Can Play Again After Becoming Youngest in World on Heart Pump
Six-year-old Muskaan Grewal, a recent heart transplant recipient and the youngest person in the world to receive a heart pump, couldn't wait to get...
Flash Mob Helps Lift Sick Patient’s Spirits in Kansas City
Friends of a young man who recently underwent a bone marrow transplant for a serious blood disorder created a flash mob outside his hospital...
Vancouver Donations Save Filipina Barista’s Life
Janette Camba, a temporary worker and familiar barista at Tim Hortons, for more than three years, is now back in her home country of...
Paying Forward the Gift of Life – Young Girl’s Organ Donation Inspires Football Fans
A fifth-generation Texas lawyer (pictured) wore West Virginia colors to the Univerity of Texas football game recently in honor of the 12 year-old organ...
Scientists Make Progress in Tailor-Made Organs Using Body’s Own Cells
Tissue engineers are building organs using the body’s own cells and letting the body do most of the work.
So far, only a few organs...
Billionaire Driver Asks Directions, Donates $20,000 for Woman’s Kidney Fund
Santa Barbara resident Jennifer Vasilakos was in the neighborhood handing out flyers and raising funds when a driver stopped to ask for directions.
She never...
Stunning Recovery for First Child to Get Stem Cell Trachea
The first child in history to receive a trachea fashioned by his own stem cells has shown remarkable progress since the initial transplant two...
Single Antibody Found To Shrink Seven Different Cancers
Stanford researchers found an antibody that was found to dramatically shrink or eradicate human cancer tumors that were transplanted into laboratory mice, no matter...
60 People Join Largest-ever Organ Exchange After Good Samaritan Donates Initial Kidney
What made the domino chain of 60 operations possible was the willingness of a Good Samaritan, Rick Ruzzamenti, to give an initial kidney after...
Justin Bieber’s Organ Donor Encouragement Causes Spike in Registrations
After a fan Tweeted Justin Bieber asking for his help, as a fellow Canadian, to save lives (like hers) by promoting organ donation, he...
Rachel’s Legacy Inspires Other Kids to Give
Rachel Beckwith wanted to raise money for a clean-water charity by asking for donations instead of presents for her ninth birthday. Now, her death...
Haitian Cancer Survivor Turns Life Around to Help Kids
After a deadly cancer diagnosis, he dedicated his life to helping hundreds of kids from Haiti’s slums.
Five years ago, Patrice Millet learned he was...
Seven Loyola Hospital Employees Donate Kidneys to Strangers
Loyola University Medical Center is a very giving place to work -- so much so that within the past year, seven female employees donated...
Medical Miracle as Adopted Son Gets to Repay Mom With a Kidney
Facing 7 or 8 years on the organ donor waiting list, an ailing Massachusetts mom, having exhausted all possibilities for kidney matches with blood...