Mayo Clinic tech allows higher-risk organs for transplants
According to the Journal of American Medicine Association (JAMA), nearly 3,500 kidneys, donated with the potential to help patients who desperately need them, are discarded.
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4 get cancer from donated organ in 'extraordinary rare' case
Four European patients developed breast cancer after receiving organs from the same donor, a case report explains.
Closure of organ transplant program leaves wait-list in flux
When the hospital called, Dustin Cuzick thought it might just be routine paperwork, but he had also been hoping for good news: that a friend had been cleared to donate a kidney for him.
There's a 24-fold rise in organ transplants from drug overdose donors
As the opioid epidemic has skyrocketed in the United States, a rise in the number of drug overdose deaths has contributed to a rise in organ transplants, made possible by overdose-death donors, across the country.
