
It was a quiet, rainy morning in 2002 at the Gift of Life Transplant House in Rochester, Minnesota. Kim DeBolt was staying at the hospitality house while recovering from a stem cell transplant at Mayo Clinic to treat acute myelogenous leukemia.
Liver transplant Liver transplantation usually is reserved for people who have significant complications due to end-stage chronic liver disease. In rare cases, sudden failure of ...
Steve Shank knows what it's like to face an uphill climb. Despite being legally blind and affected by albinism, he has been an avid bicyclist for years, competing in 100-mile rides on the rolling hills of Iowa.
In the mountains of Guatemala, in a small Mayan village called Xepatan, is a house. A newly constructed house that sits in stark contrast to ...
For the fourth year in a row, a record number or organ transplants were performed in 2016 in the U.S. Since 2012, the annual number of transplants ...
If you’re among the 54 percent of American adults who’ve registered to be an organ donor, it’s encouraging to know your decision could end up saving ...
Living donor transplant There are about 6,000 organ transplants from living donors in the U.S. each year. Kidney and liver are the most common types ...
Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 4/1/17 According to the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network, each day in the U.S., around 120,000 people are waiting for an ...
According to the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network, each day in the U.S., around 120,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant, and another person gets ...
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