ROCHESTER, Minn (WKBT) - 2020 was bleak for many, but generosity of others was the glimmer of light many people needed. Last year, there was a record number of deceased organ donations in the US. According to the United Network…
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.
Four European patients developed breast cancer after receiving organs from the same donor, a case report explains.
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.
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.
