“I can’t sleep. I can’t concentrate on the everyday things I have to do because I’m worried about my little daughter,” said the victim’s father Enrique Sandoval GoFundMe Marlene Sandoval A 32-year-old woman was brutally attacked last Wednesday during a robbery at the beauty store she manages in Commerce, Calif., reports ABC News 7, NBC … Read more
Killer Mike and his family are breathing a collective sigh of relief … the surgery to give his son a new kidney went successfully. Mike tells us his 21-year-old son Mikael “Pony Boy” Render came through the transplant, and “did really well.” He says Pony will be in recovery for a few hours before he’s … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave While making the rounds at a London hospital in 1950, a medical student named Roy Calne was presented with a young man dying from kidney failure. Make him comfortable, Dr. Calne was told, because the patient would be dead within two weeks. The order troubled Dr. Calne … Read more
LONDON — Roy Calne, a pioneer of organ transplantation who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died aged 93. Calne’s family said he died late Saturday in Cambridge, England, where he was professor emeritus of surgery at Cambridge University. Born in 1930, Calne trained as a doctor at Guy’s Hospital in London … Read more
Doctors made medical history by successfully transplanting a whole eye. The donated eye has reportedly survived inside the patient for six months with no major issues so far and shows signs of good health. At this point, however, the patient has not regained any functional sight as a result. “We Have One of the Best Tags … Read more
Lawrence Faucette, the 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who was the second person to receive a genetically engineered pig heart, died on October 30, according to a statement from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where the transplant was performed. Faucette received the transplant on September 20 and lived for six weeks—less … Read more
The Transplant Season 4 Episode 4 release date and time have been revealed. The episode will air on CTV and then will be available for streaming on Peacock. It is titled as ‘Decisions’. This series centers on charismatic Dr. Bashir Hamed, who flees from his war-torn country to build a better life in Canada. However, … Read more
With any organ transplant, doctors are trying to balance how to prevent infections while tamping down the immune system. Without immunosuppressive drugs, the transplant organ will be rejected. But giving patients too much of these drugs makes them susceptible to infections. That’s what researchers think happened in Bennett’s case. To treat the CMV infection, doctors … Read more