July 30, 2020 California man gets liver, nephew donates liver -- in separate operations: report After two years of searching, a California man finally received a new liver during a live donor transplant last May – just a week apart from when his nephew donated his liver to another man, according to a report.
May 22, 2020 Texas woman gets kidney after coronavirus delays lifesaving transplant: 'I was hanging on by a thread' A Texas man has donated a kidney to his wife in need, weeks after the transplant was delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic in the U.S. that temporarily halted elective surgeries in the Lone Star State and elsewhere.
May 12, 2020 Organ transplants dive amid coronavirus crisis, start to inch back Organ transplants plummeted as COVID-19 swept through communities, with surgeons wary of endangering living donors and unable to retrieve possibly usable organs from the dead -- and hospitals sometimes too full even when they could.
February 14, 2020 Medical centers fight to keep liver transplants close to home, after new policy takes effect The United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) has rolled out a new liver transplant distribution system. early a dozen hospitals across the country filed a lawsuit to try and stop the new policy but a judge ruled in UNOS's favor.
January 24, 2020 Man donates kidney to mom who would die without transplant: ‘It was a no-brainer for me’ A Scottish man said it was a “no-brainer” to give him mother a kidney when she was told she would die without a transplant.
January 24, 2020 Helicopter-sharing app Blade pairs with NYU Langone to speed transplant organs Talking about a life-saving initiative.
January 22, 2020 Mom who died days after giving birth to 4th child becomes 'less than 1 in a million' organ donor According to her husband, she suffered a "massive hemorrhagic stroke" just days after giving birth to their fourth child.
January 9, 2020 Second US baby born after uterus transplant from deceased donor The baby boy, who is being called a "perfect miracle" by his mother, was born in November.
January 3, 2020 Herbal supplements blamed for Texas woman's liver failure She said she had been taking four pills a day until around Thanksgiving, when she noticed her eyes were turning yellow and she had abdominal pains.
