Man Saves a Child's Life After He Saw a Woman He Liked in the Bone Marrow Donor Queue
Not only did Billy Higgins discover he was a match for a sick 10-year-old boy, he also discovered his romantic match standing in line to be a donor.
Not only did Billy Higgins discover he was a match for a sick 10-year-old boy, he also discovered his romantic match standing in line to be a donor.
"We can [regenerate anything] ... a heart after a heart attack, a brain after trauma or with Parkinson's disease, a spinal cord after injury."
Doncella Liggins had no idea who her anonymous kidney donor was - only that the transplant was going to save her life.
It was the only known instance of a pro athlete's organs donated to another player, and they went to the baseball star whom he met and idolized as a child.
Baseball star Rod Carew may not have lived another year if it weren't for Konrad Reuland, whom Carew unknowingly inspired to become an athlete as a child.
A new update from this research organization says that human trials for an implantable bioartificial kidney could be on the horizon.
It's been a little over a year since their life-changing surgery - but the bond between this police officer and 9-year-old boy is still stronger than ever.
The story behind this young man's death is being shared across Chinese social media and inspiring change.
35-year-old Nina Martinez unknowingly contracted HIV as an infant – but now, she's proudly making history as the first living HIV-positive kidney donor.
After its successful assessment and approval, this "ground-breaking" procedure is expected to halve the amount of people waiting for liver transplants.
It all started because Nicole McNeil noticed that one of her customers looked more sad than usual – so she worked up the courage to ask what was wrong.
In what is the largest single-hospital kidney swap in the state, five patients received new kidneys from five healthy donors in a marathon series of operations performed Friday at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
A quadruple-amputee GI proudly showed off his two newly transplanted arms last week by using them to push his wheelchair into a press conference — then vowed to drive a car again. "The arms feel great!" said beaming Iraq War vet Brendan Marrocco, as he displayed his new limbs at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he underwent the extraordinary double transplant Dec. 18.
Organ transplants performed in the United States for the first time exceeded 30,000 in a single year, according to a report from the branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services that oversees national organ transplantation policy. "This landmark achievement is a testament to the generosity of the American public to help others […]
A mother who donated her baby's organs for transplant hears his heartbeat two years after his death in the chest of a little girl whose life he saved.
A teen's thank you to a surgeon who saved her life as an infant brings on a tearful reunion 14 years later.
When doctors told this man his blood pressure was too high to be a kidney donor for his wife, he did whatever was needed to get in shape for surgery.
Thousands of patients languish on organ donor waiting lists because their immune systems would reject any transplanted organ that is not a match–until now.
Aubrey would have died if it weren't for Monique's brother's organs – now they will meet for the first time in a tear-jerking reunion.
A baby shows a remarkable recovery after his heart failed just as doctors readied him for a life-saving transplant.
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