Daniell Koepke turned to DIY poop transplants to find relief from debilitating gut symptoms. She used her brother and boyfriend as donors, and her symptoms improved. But she also got acne like her brother and depression like her boyfriend. As a college student, Daniell Koepke started experiencing irritable bowel syndrome symptoms including indigestion, stabbing pains […]
WORCESTER — A Worcester woman feels betrayed by a national foundation that helped families raise money to cover medical expenses, and she has a warning for others who did business with the organization — you, too, may have lost money. Christina Norris said the National Foundation for Transplants kept thousands of dollars that her family raised to […]
A Houston hospital has temporarily stopped liver and kidney transplants after it says it learned one of its physicians altered patient records in a government database, which may have prevented them from getting new organs. Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston confirmed that it is investigating “inappropriate changes” to liver donor acceptance criteria for patients […]
Scientists say they are closer to understanding the best way to make the human body receptive to an organ donation from another species, an effort that could help solve an ongoing shortage of organs. More than 100,000 people in the US are on the transplant waiting list, and an average of 17 die every day […]