The Ultimate Gift: 50 Years of Organ Transplants
420044
Over the last five decades, surgeons have learned how to transplant virtually every vital organ in the human body.
538670
Michael Ferreira was given the precious gift of life not once, but twice from his mother, Dawn Frasca, who donated a kidney to her son June 19, 2001. Ferreira, who was a teenager at the time and suffered from a disease that shrank his kidneys, not only recovered but went on to star on the Nantucket basketball team and became ...
693311
NEW YORK  - The first detailed report of  outcomes after 10 years for people given a liver transplant  because of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection shows that these  individuals fare just as well as those undergoing liver  transplantation for other reasons.
20192
ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 5 -- The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan on Monday, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice.
379942
NEW YORK  - After children and adolescents receive an organ transplant, more than 90 percent do well at the one-year mark. Thereafter, unfortunately, the rate of loss of the grafted organ increases, investigators report.
617201
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.
716077
The first penis transplant was a surgical, but not a mental, success. Chinese surgeons had to remove the organ at the request of the patient and his wife. In Bodyhack.
708834
After her death, Maxine Watson saved at least two lives, having arranged for her organs to be donated to those who needed them most.
550290
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
411941
A long wait, even up to three years, for a kidney transplant is worth it, claims a Canadian study presented Oct. 31 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology in St.
689707
QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec and Ontario will just be tinkering with organ donation rules in 2005 when what the system desperately needs is a complete overhaul, says an outspoken transplant advocate.
351513
A wait of even three years for a kidney transplant is worth it, according to a Canadian study presented the American Society of Nephrology in St.
345654
BELGRADE, Maine - Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
713329
Fifty years ago today, Ronald Herrick gave his dying twin, Richard, an early Christmas gift, an unspoken act of generosity between brothers that made an unproven medical
212546
Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.
456624
Prime Minister Tony Blair will welcome ten transplant recipients - from a six-year-old girl to a 74- year-old granddad - to 10 Downing Street to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the NHS Organ Donor Register.
481420
As the world&#39;s first successful kidney transplant celebrates its 50th birthday, medical organisations are warning there is a critical shortage of donors.