Man waiting for kidney gets good news
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A Vail man who has been in a high-stakes battle with a Denver hospital over a kidney transplant says he was told that the operation he needs will go ahead Wednesday.
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DENVER -- A routine kidney transplant that was supposed to take place Monday was cancelled after the doctor who was going to perform the operation said he had &quot;ethical concerns&quot; about the procedure because the donor and recipient met on the Internet.
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An 8-month-old boy received five organs in a complex transplant for a rare gastrointestinal disease and is ready for the next step &#151; learning to eat, his doctors said Friday.
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A man whose lung-transplant operation was aborted after the plane carrying the organs crashed into Lake Michigan this week is recovering after receiving lungs from another donor.
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Transplanting bone marrow along with kidneys reduces the risk of organ rejection.
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A Denver hospital abruptly changed course on Tuesday and agreed to perform a kidney transplant that would be the first such procedure in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site.
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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DENVER Bob Hickey is making history on the operating table today -- becoming the first patient who obtained an organ via a for-profit Web site.
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Fifty years ago today, Boston surgeon Joseph Murray transplanted a kidney from Ronald Herrick into his identical twin, Richard. It was the first time an organ from one
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The kidney dialysis unit of the public hospital in Nablus is running at capacity: four shifts a day serving nearly 100 patients. It would be a difficult task for any hospital. More so for one that has no money to pay its staff or buy fresh medical supplies.
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Lifesharers is trying to settle the competition for organs in a fair way: before you get one, you should be willing to give one
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Doctors at what was then known as Peter Bent Brigham Hospital performed the world&#39;s first successful organ transplant. Ronald Herrick -- then 23 and a resident of Northboro -- donated one of his kidneys to
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Description: On Dec. 23, 1954, Boston doctors gave a kidney to a 23-year-old man in the first successful long-term transplant of a human organ.
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Red-carpet fashion maven Steven Cojocaru said Monday that a genetic condition will require him to undergo a kidney transplant operation.
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DENVER -- A Colorado man underwent a kidney transplant Wednesday in what is believed to be the first such operation involving an organ obtained through a for-profit Web site -- a transaction that has raised legal and ethical questions.
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A man who donated his kidney to a dialysis patient he met through the Internet has accepted a television show's offer to take a lie detector test aimed at rebutting claims he was paid.
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A teenage girl who has four kidneys is hoping to be able to donate two of them to patients in need of a transplant