The fiancee of a New Jersey high school principal, who died earlier this year during a bone marrow donation operation, has filed a lawsuit blaming negligent doctors for his death. Derrick Nelson's fiancee Sheronda Breaker described him as worthy ...

Kazakh doctors announced on February 6 about the world's first successful implantation of a wireless artificial heart in humans. It was developed by an Israeli high-tech company with the aim of improving the quality of life of patients awaiting organ transplantation. An Israeli cardiac surgeon participated in the transplant operation along with Kazakh doctors ...

Doctors at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer (Israel) performed a heart transplant on a 1,5-year-old boy from Ramallah (Palestinian Authority). The donor organ was donated by the family of a Jewish baby who had died shortly before of an incurable disease, Vesti writes. Musa Asakra was born in ...

"My name is Mark, I need a kidney - you can help!" These words are written on a giant banner that is displayed downtown in Times Square. Three years ago, 53-year-old New Yorker Mark Weiner, whose photo is on a banner, suffered cancer in ...

Christy Shirley from Virginia is called a guardian angel by the relatives of the man she saved, who remained alive thanks to the fact that Christy - at that time a complete stranger - gave him her kidney. “If it weren’t for Christie, I would have already been at his funeral...

Sloane James' parents from Massachusetts noticed that something was wrong with their baby girl when she was about 4 months old. She had yellowish skin and her belly began to grow disproportionately fast, Fox News reported. A two-week examination at Boston Children's Hospital showed ...

In the United States, 95% of the adult population supports voluntary organ donation after death and advocates donating their organs after death or during life in case of need of their relatives and friends. In America today, according to the Donate Life Foundation ...