At the age of 27, Jonathan Pinkard was removed from the heart transplant list and was given only several months to live. But, things changed when he met Lori Wood, a 57-year-old nurse from the Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Georgia. 48 hours after they met, Wood asked Pinkard if she […]
Doctors from Duke University Medical Center have successfully ‘reanimated’ a heart in a groundbreaking transplant performed for the first time on an adult in the US. Heart transplants usually come from donations after someone’s cause of death was brain-related and whose heart is still beating. This method used by this […]
Unfortunately, in today’s world, people who need a heart transplant need to wait for an undefined period of time to get an available and suitable organ from another person. This waiting time and waiting lists are a huge problem as it can take too long, longer than the individual may […]