The transplant surgeon had good news: A donated liver was on the way for critically ill Maggie Catherwood. Then he asked: Would she let doctors cut off part of her new liver to share with an equally sick baby? picked by suebe 2 years ago

After receiving a Liver Transplant, Demi-Lee Brennan (9) was healing well, but nine months later on a check up, it was found that stem cells had migrated to her bone marrow, completely re working her Blood type and immune system. picked by muppetmaker 9 months ago

With her mother desperately in need of a transplant, Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys.

So when the 21-year-old died after an asthma attack, it seemed that the tragedy would at least give Rachel Leake a chance of a healthy new life. picked by doggylives 6 months ago

The experimental transplant procedure marks the first time infants have received hearts from infant donors who had been taken off life support. picked by afroMOSHI 2 months ago

It took 18 months for her smile to come back completely, but doctors say the French woman who received the world's first partial face transplant is now doing well. Isabelle Dinoire, 40, was pictured without makeup for the first time today showing the extent of her scars. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Police had to track him down via cell phone coordinates. picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago

The same surgeon, an internationally known liver transplant expert, performed the procedures on four Japanese "yakuza" organized crime lords. The most prominent transplant recipient, Tadamasa Goto, had been barred from entering the U.S. because of his criminal history until the FBI helped him obtain a visa to receive the transplant. picked by teresag 5 months ago

The world's only transplant recipient of two full arms said the feeling of being whole again was "indescribable". picked by AutumnLotus 5 days ago

A radical treatment that "rinses" organs and then implants them with patients' DNA is being hailed as a solution to the transplant crisis. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Grieving parents now learn that their 15 year old son died from a rare form of brain cancer, rather than meningitis as originally diagnosed. picked by suebe 7 months ago

The success of Isabelle Dinoire's face transplant has scientists looking up - literally - and touting a new, rejection-free way of growing hair where once was bare. picked by mitzuzake 8 months ago

Sometime in 2004 a hamster got sick. Then it was sold from a PetSmart store. Then the woman who bought it died from a stroke. But she had contracted lymphocytic choriomeningitis from said hamster beforehand. Then her liver was donated to a guy. They guy then died several days later allegedly from the virus from the hamster.

The guy's wife is suing PetSmart for negligence. picked by moe 6 months ago

Thousands of women lacking a functioning uterus would be interested. If a uterus transplant was carried out tomorrow, it would only be the second ever. Would it be safe? The first was in Saudi Arabia in 2000 and it failed. picked by sparky 2 years ago

AUSTRALIAN researchers have developed a world-first blood test that could save the lives of tens of thousands of bone marrow transplant patients across the world. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Best present ever. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

The 8-year-old on the pamphlet needed a kidney transplant, and Bolan knew she could help. She did a quick Web search on the surgery and talked it over with her husband. Then she made a phone call to offer one of her kidneys to Sarah d**kman. picked by lkrofct 8 months ago

...what we do is take normal stool from a normal person, make an extract of it, put it in a blender with water, take two tablespoons of that cocktail, and introduce it into the patient's body.

donteatpoop, indeed. picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago

So, just as it had done 23 times last year alone, B.C. Transplant went down its list of 11 jets-for-hire companies across the country and in the United States to charter a $15,000 flight to shuttle its organ-recovery surgeons to the remote locale and back.

Only this time, it wasn't going to be so simple. picked by srsmits 8 months ago

Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in “Camelot” launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73. picked by ImNotBlue 12 months ago

Not only had he married the donor's widow, but he died the same way the donor did: of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. picked by cb__ 6 months ago