Organ donation

Organs from HIV+ people are likely to pass on the virus if the organ recipient is HIV-negative, but can safely be transplanted into other HIV+ people.

But in an ominous twist, Heche also came up with the idea to play her own mother in the biopic about her life.

Though initial reports said the actress was in good health after the crash, it was later clarified that she was unconscious and in critical condition.

A representative of Heche, 53, has announced that she is not expected to survive, and that there are plans for her organs to be donated.

The recipient says she is grateful for the gift of a new knee ligament, which has enabled her to be active again with her family.

With lungs not viable outside of the body after around 6 hours, a Missouri transplant team had to think fast.

The billing company threatened to send the donor to collections if he did not pay the bill which he was told would be covered by the recipient's insurance.

Commissioner Keechant Sewell called Officer Wilbert Mora a three-time hero and said "Our heads are bowed & our hearts are heavy" in a tweet.

Two members of staff have been placed on leave after the "incredibly rare, uncommon mix up."

Tributes have been flooding in for the boy, including from lawmakers and his favorite soccer team, Liverpool FC.

Stone Foltz, a 20-year-old sophomore at Bowling Green State University, is "in the process of donating his organs," said the family's attorney.

Blood donation rules for gay and bisexual men are being relaxed, lifting a blanket ban for men who have had sex with men in the last three months.

Local media reports the group removed the livers and kidneys from 11 people at a hospital in Anhui province between 2017 and 2018.

"There's no way on earth that I want any of you [non-vegans] to ever get my organs if I die," said That Vegan Teacher in a TikTok video.

We don't like to think about dying. But the responsible thing to do is to consider those we will leave if we do—and settle issues like custody and inheritance instead of letting the burden fall on them.

The piglets all died within a week of being born, the researchers said.

Verna Johnson's unconventional campaign to obtain a donor organ has found a willing participant.

This is believed to be the first case of a patient passing cancer on to four recipients.

Tammy Griffin met Linda Karr six weeks after she gave her her heart.

Researchers who noticed an increase in the number of organs available traced the change back to a disconcerting source.

The new algorithm is more accurate than current methods to predict health outcomes.

Marie Robinson is one of 18,000 people waiting for a liver transplant, so her husband, Verlon, took matters into his own hands.

With a bleak prognosis, his parents had agreed to donate his organs.

Jay Crouch was able to eat food for the first time ever following the historic 10-hour procedure.

"The fact that I'm alive and am going to have at least 20 more years with my kids, that's the best thing in the world."

The medication prevents the child's body from rejecting his kidney transplant.

So is it possible to get cancer from a donated organ? The answer seems to be yes.

A sick child may die because his father's criminal record prevents him from donating his kidney.

Francia Raisa's prognosis is most likely good after giving up one of her organs to best friend Selena Gomez.

U.S. lawmakers want to put an end to the decades-old practice, but doing so will require shifting the society's attitude toward altruistic giving.