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Doctors Believed Organ Donor was Dead, Until They Made Horrifying Discovery While Prepping for Surgery
A man being readied for organ harvesting who wasn't quite dead yet. Now, lawmakers are asking for answers in the case of ...
The Independent5d
Kentucky man’s organs were nearly harvested. Then doctors realized he was still alive
The organs of a Kentucky donor who had been declared ... The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office is also looking into the case. The state’s AG Russell Coleman told The Independent in a ...
Six people sought new organs. They ended up with HIV.
Officials in Brazil’s well-regarded public health system are scrambling to explain this week how six transplant patients ...
Crestwood family takes over organ donation cause after death of loved one
Dan Lietz, of Crestwood, inspired by late fiancée  Vikki Tulcus, advocates for organ donation with his daughter Morgan, a ...
Retired Mass. state trooper searching for organ donor following ‘shocking’ diagnosis
Thomas McAnulty, a retired Massachusetts state trooper, is looking for a kidney donor after being diagnosed with kidney ...
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‘Horrifying’ mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say
At a hospital in Kentucky, a man who had been declared dead after a drug overdose was moving and visibly crying as he was ...
Copperhead Population By State
Where do you find copperhead snakes in the United States? Although they’re common snakes, they don’t live everywhere. Here’s ...
'WORST NIGHTMARE': Donor wakes up on operating table as doctors prepare to harvest organs
Man comes 'back to life' as surgeons began the process of harvesting his body parts after they determined he was de*d ...
Organ Donation: Tamil Nadu shines bright as a model state, yet a long way to go
With over 200,000 people needing organ transplants each year and supply falling significantly short of this demand, organ ...
Bar & Bench2d
Kerala High Court urges State to form hospital-based committees to speed up organ donation approvals
The Kerala High Court recently urged the Kerala government to take steps to establish hospital-based authorisation committees ...
EurekAlert!11d
Organ ‘crosstalk’ extends harms of inflammation from liver to brain
As people age, the liver is among several organs that experience chronic, low-grade inflammation, a state that keeps the ...
Six transplant patients in Brazil contract HIV from infected organs
Six transplant patients tested positive for HIV after receiving infected organs from the Rio de Janeiro organ donation service, state officials said on Friday.