Transplants Stories
- Organ transplantation has taken a hit with reported drops due to fears of possibly getting infected by COVID-19.
- This May, doctors at the Cleveland Clinic conducted a complete face transplant on a 21-year-old gunshot victim.
- Doctors in South Africa have performed a penis transplant on a 40-year-old man who lost his organ during a botched circumcision.
- A recent study has shown that when kidneys from hepatitis C patients are transplanted into healthy recipients, the virus can be eradicated through a course of anti-viral medications.
- Immune cells morph and destroy donated organs, making people reject their new kidneys.
- Arm transplants are a fascinating procedure that help to restore a vital body part to those who lost it to accident and injury.
- Thinking of becoming an organ donor? You could end up saving a life, or your organs may be unusable when you die.
- Don’t like all of your organs? No problem — you can live without a whole bunch of them.
- Here's how Zion Harvey, the world's first child to receive a double hand transplant, is doing a year later.
- The death of the first face transplant recipient has raised questions about the efficacy of anti-rejection drugs.
- People who need kidney transplants currently must wait for a donation, but a new discovery may provide a better option.
- The first man to receive a double hand transplant surgery in the U.S. is unhappy seven years after going under the knife.