In heart failure and on the highest priority for a new heart, John Fletcher spends his days and nights at Baptist Memorial Hospital waiting.

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5 year old Antonio Forte needs a stomach & small bowel transplant Summer is officially underway in Lancaster County, with the start of the annual Lancaster Catholic High School carnival.

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When he first received his friend’s email looking for a kidney donor, Jeff Moyer hoped he wouldn’t be a match. But he had a change of heart, and he found himself wanting to be selected as a donor. Now, Moyer describes his fears about the surgery and his hopes for the health of the donee, a friend’s daughter.

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BIRMINGHAM (WIAT)— For a little boy with a rare disease, time could mean the difference between life or death. Sawyer Spadgenske has spent the past two years waiting on his second liver transplant, and the time is ticking… 10-year-old Sawyer needs a transplant because he suffers from a rare disease called portal vein thrombosis. “The hardest part is watching him be sick and seeing him suffer …

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An Ottawa woman who donated her three-year-old son’s organs for transplant following his sudden death in 1992 was honored Friday by Secretary of State Jessie White for her commitment to the state’s Organ/Tissue Program. White revealed a permanent counter

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Spain’s 2010 Prince of Asturias Award for international cooperation was awarded on Wednesday to the Transplantation Society and the Spanish National Transplant Organization. Founded in 1966, the Transplantation Society is the leading international organization in human transplantation. It provides a worldwide forum for doctors and researchers to share findings and ideas, explore new treatments …

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THE British Government’s “transplant tsar” insisted yesterday that organ transplants were carried out on the basis of whether they would work – after it emerged a cystic fibrosis sufferer died after receiving the lungs of a long-term smoker.

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Erik Compton sees himself as more dreamer than role model, more of a grinder than an inspiration.

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Livers could be grown in the laboratory for transplantation into humans within five years, new research suggests.

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With her lung capacity at 25 percent and dropping, 27-year-old Tiffany Tate was approved for a double lung transplant at Tucson’s University Medical Center. The wait for matching donor lungs, she was told, could be between two months and one year. That was April 20.

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