A man on death row in Texas asked for a stay of execution so he could donate a kidney before he died. The Independent writes about it. The idea came to 39-year-old prisoner Ramiro Gonzalez in a correspondence with Michael Zusman, a well-known opponent of the death penalty and a former prison…
A hospital in Ohio sent two employees on administrative leave after a patient received a kidney transplant intended for another person. Writes about this USA Today. Officials from University Hospitals in Cleveland apologized for the incident and said that the patient who received a kidney ...
A Michigan woman died 61 days after receiving a pair of lungs from an organ donor infected with the coronavirus, according to the report. How this happened, told The New York Times. There was no indication that the donor, the woman, was fatal ...
Last week in Chicago, Illinois, a woman with COVID-19 underwent a double lung transplant, believed to be the first of its kind performed on a patient with the virus. Writes about this Fox News. A woman who is a little over 20 and otherwise ...
A New Jersey patient was accidentally placed at the top of the organ transplant list and received a kidney intended for another patient, who happened to have the same name. Writes about this New York Post. Miraculously, the patient had compatibility ...
A US Navy veteran who is one of four men who underwent penile transplants said he thought about suicide after losing both legs in Afghanistan but now feels "normal." Writes about this DailyMail. A veteran who underwent the fourth in the world and the most ...
Kerry Hayes, a resident of Anacorts, Washington, became the first person to receive a heart transplant from a hepatitis C donor and subsequently cured of the disease. It is reported that the 49-year-old American was born with a heart defect, due to which at the age of 28 he needed ...
Cameron Underwood, 26, attempted suicide in 2016 and shot himself in the face. Cameron survived, but lost most of his lower jaw, nose, and all but one teeth. After that, he underwent several traditional plastic surgeries, but they ...
American Kelly Sowatsky found a kidney donor thanks to a banner she brought to a National Hockey League game. In March 2018, a Pittsburgh Penguins fan came to her favorite team's game against the Montréal Canadiens with a poster that read: “Hockey fans! ...
Doctors at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer (Israel) performed a heart transplant on a 1,5-year-old boy from Ramallah (Palestinian Authority). The donor organ was donated by the family of a Jewish baby who had died shortly before of an incurable disease, Vesti writes. Musa Asakra was born in ...