The Perez family has been waiting nine years for a multi-organ transplant for their son. They got the call this week that UPMC Children’s Hospital had a match for all five organs their he needed. The family, who lives in Michigan, immediately started their travels to Pittsburgh where their 9-year-old successfully underwent surgery. Tonight on […]
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How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.
As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what’s happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. The critical danger point outdoors for illness and death from relentless heat is several degrees lower than experts once thought, say researchers who put people in hot boxes to see what happens […]
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Man who received 1st pig kidney transplant has died. Why experts say animal organs could still ‘turn medicine on its ear.’
The first person to receive a pig kidney transplant, 62-year-old Richard Slayman, has died, just shy of two months after undergoing the groundbreaking procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the facility announced in a May 11 statement. Despite Slayman’s death, his family and surgeons expressed no regret that he’d undergone the procedure and remain hopeful […]
‘Wild, wild west.’ Families say organs of deceased Alabama inmates have been removed without their consent
After inmate Jim Kennedy Jr. died last year at the Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest, Alabama, his sister-in-law got an unusual call from the funeral home preparing the body for burial. “Did y’all realize he came back without his organs?” Sara Kennedy recalled being told. “Liver, heart. All of your major organs. They were gone.” […]
Montana mom meets the Indiana girl who received her son’s organs
Military kept hundreds of organs after performing autopsies, watchdog says
The military’s medical examiner retained hundreds of organs removed during autopsies — including people’s brains and hearts — frequently without notifying family members or, in some instances, against their wishes, according to a watchdog report. For years, the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, which conducts autopsies on service members and others who die under federal […]
A 62-year-old man just received the world’s first pig kidney transplant. Why experts say animal organs could ‘turn medicine on its ear.’
For the first time, a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a 62-year-old man by surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital, the facility announced Thursday. Transplanting animal organs into humans is becoming more common, but these procedures remain rare and have yet to significantly extend patients’ lives. Amid an ongoing organ shortage, experts say […]
Scientists have used cells from fluid drawn during pregnancy to grow mini lungs and other organs
Scientists have created miniorgans from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb – an advance they believe could open up new areas of prenatal medicine. Miniorgans, or “ organoids,” are tiny simplified structures that can be used to test new medical treatments or study how the real organs they mimic […]
Crash victim donates organs, gives gift of life to dozens
Crash victim donates organs, gives gift of life to dozens A grieving family said their daughter’s legacy lives on in dozens of people through her donated organs. People came to a mural in NoDa to honor Kristie Crowder on National Donor Day. Family of cyclist who was hit, killed in Plaza Midwood says ‘she won’t […]
Alabama Inmates’ Bodies Sent Back to Families Missing Internal Organs, Including Brain and Heart In Bizarre Cases
The families of two Alabama prison inmates who died in the past few weeks are demanding answers from state authorities after they received their loved ones’ bodies bizarrely missing several of their major internal organs. Both these cases raise questions about the treatment and mismanagement of the bodies of 74-year-old Charles Singleton and 43-year-old Brandon […]
Man who died in Alabama prison was reportedly returned to family without organs
A man who died in the custody of Alabama’s correction’s department was reportedly returned to his family without his organs, including his brain. The news, which broke earlier this week, is the second recent case involving allegations of missing body parts from people in prison in the state. The US prison system is widely criticized […]