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A Barcelona hospital successfully performed the world's first face transplant using tissue from a donor who chose medically assisted death. The groundbreaking surgery could open new possibilities for patients waiting for life-changing transplants.
Nearly a thousand organ transplant recipients and living donors just made history together at the Transplant Games. Carson City's Dan Palmer was among those who gathered for 15 minutes to establish a brand new Guinness World Record category.
After spending 320 days in the hospital waiting for a heart transplant, first grader Lincoln Stanger and his family created a foundation that has already helped more than a dozen families facing the same journey. The Love from Lincoln, Hope from Hailey Foundation provides grants and ongoing support to families waiting for organ transplants.
A UK baby who faced end-of-life care after two cardiac arrests is now smiling and thriving thanks to a Berlin Heart device. The innovative technology is keeping little Macs alive while he waits for a heart transplant.
Children with sickle cell disease now have a survival rate exceeding 95% thanks to breakthrough stem cell transplant techniques. New treatments are also opening curative options for kids who previously had no donor matches.
Chinese doctors successfully transplanted both a pig liver and kidneys into a human patient, marking the first time multiple organs from another species have been transplanted together. The organs functioned for nearly five days, offering new hope for the 100,000+ people waiting for life-saving transplants.
A 37-year-old dialysis patient who had zero chance of finding a compatible kidney donor just received a successful transplant thanks to a repurposed cancer drug. After 12 years on the waiting list, he's now dialysis-free with excellent kidney function.
A medical breakthrough allowed a patient to survive for two full days without natural lungs, kept alive by an external artificial-lung system until a donor organ became available. This achievement marks a major step forward in bridging the gap between organ failure and life-saving transplants.
A two-year-old boy in Chennai received a groundbreaking liver transplant from his grandmother, correcting a rare genetic disorder and saving his kidney function. The complex surgery offers hope for other children facing similar life-threatening conditions.
A medical center in war-torn Taiz, Yemen has performed over 164 kidney transplants and 1,450 open-heart surgeries since opening in 2021, offering lifesaving care at a fraction of international costs. The facility just completed Yemen's first three liver transplants and treated 110 children with heart conditions in a single week.
Japan just changed its heart transplant system to save more lives by moving the sickest patients to the front of the line. Starting this month, those at highest risk of dying within 30 days will receive transplants first.
Organ transplant recipients from across Europe gathered in the Netherlands for a week-long Olympics-style celebration of survival and community. From beginners to serious athletes, they're proving life after transplant can be active, joyful, and full of possibility.
Organ transplant wait times in the Netherlands dropped dramatically in 2025, with heart transplant waits falling from 24 to 14 months. A new donor policy is setting the stage for even more lives saved in the years ahead.
A revolutionary cancer treatment just gave a Philadelphia man his third kidney transplant by removing the antibodies that kept rejecting donors. Penn Medicine's breakthrough trial could open transplants to thousands of patients currently deemed "impossible to match."
Northwestern Medicine doctors are saving lives by offering lung transplants to stage 4 cancer patients whose disease hasn't spread beyond their lungs. All 17 transplant patients survived their first year, compared to grim outcomes for those on standard treatment alone.
Jackie Kirwan lost her daughter Georgie to epilepsy, but when she met the woman who received Georgie's hand in a rare transplant, she got to hold her daughter's hand one more time. Their emotional meeting is raising awareness about organ donation and life-changing transplants.
Two patients who spent years waiting for kidney transplants with nearly zero chance of finding a match just received new organs thanks to cancer-fighting cells repurposed for transplant medicine. The breakthrough could help 5,000 highly sensitized Americans waiting for kidneys.
Children in Uzbekistan no longer need to travel abroad for complex medical procedures that once cost families up to $250,000. The country now performs liver transplants, brain surgery, and bone marrow procedures domestically, making life-saving care accessible to all families.
Southern Italy just gained its biggest pediatric research hospital after Santobono Pausilipon joined the nation's elite network of scientific medical institutes. The milestone brings specialized childhood disease research and treatment to a region that's needed it for decades.
Federal health officials just unveiled a plan to help thousands more patients receive lifesaving organs by improving how the nation's transplant system works. The changes focus on using more "medically complex" donor organs that are currently being wasted, even though they could give seriously ill patients years of healthy life.
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