Colleen Le will never forget going under the knife to give her boyfriend the ultimate gift: a kidney. Le who’s 30 years old says she was nervous about the surgery, especially since the biggest one she had before was getting her wisdom tooth out. She was anxious about what to […]
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8-Year-Old Boy Hugs the Nurse Who Gave Him a Part of Her Liver to Save His Life
This youngster is now living his best life, four months after he received a lifesaving liver transplant from a nurse who works at the transplant ICU. She was touched by the boy’s story and decided to help. The 8-year-old boy, Brayden Auten, was at home one day when he started […]
Team of US Doctors Successfully ‘Reanimate’ the Heart of a Dead Donor
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 […]