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Your Healthy Family: Weight Loss and Organ Transplants Play Video
August 7, 2012 1:06 PM
An overweight man was told he couldn't get a kidney transplant because he tipped the scales at 300 pounds. He had to lose weight to save his life. Here's more in today's Your Healthy Family. Eventually, doctors in Cincinnati came up with a radical solution. They performed weight... more » -
Kidney saga takes another grim turn for NY man
June 10, 2012 1:35 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - Two weeks ago, Roberto Medina's sister died while undergoing surgery to give him one of her kidneys. Now, the ailing New York City man is leaving the hospital feeling traumatized - again. Medina told reporters he was summoned to Montefiore Medical Center on Wednesday and told... more » -
First US full face transplant patient smiling
January 14, 2012 7:48 PM
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Ten months after becoming the first person to get a full face transplant in the United States, a Fort Worth man marvels at recovering the ability of expression. The progress of 25-year-old Dallas Wiens and the handful of other patients that have undergone the procedure... more » -
Cheney undecided on heart transplant operation
May 8, 2011 12:38 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he hasn't decided whether to seek a heart transplant. Cheney tells "Fox News Sunday" that his health has improved since last year, when he was diagnosed with end-stage heart failure. He had an operation last summer to fit his body... more » -
Some that were blind can now see
March 4, 2011 8:32 PM
The sense of sight is precious, and for some people it was missing for a long time. Photographs taken by more than a dozen artists, that were once blind and can now see, are on exhibit starting today at the Marmalade at Smokebrush. Each of the artists received... more » -
Rare Death of Donor at CU Hospital Prompts Concerns
August 14, 2010 10:23 AM
DENVER (AP) - A South Dakota man who donated part of his liver to his brother has died, temporarily halting live donor liver transplants at the University of Colorado Hospital where it was done. This would be Colorado's first death of a live liver donor and the fourth in the... more » -
Former psychiatrist sentenced in transplant scam
May 27, 2010 5:36 PM
A former psychiatrist accused of duping seriously ill people out of $400,000 with false promises of organ transplants in the Philippines has been sentenced in New York to more than 15 years in prison. U.S. District Judge David Hurd also ordered Jerome Feldman to repay $2 million to the... more » -
First total face transplant performed in Spain
April 25, 2010 12:02 PM
A hospital in Spain says it has carried out the world's first full-face transplant, giving a man a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features after he lost his face in an accident. Other transplant experts lauded the surgery but were not sure it could technically be... more » -
A family's mission to help their loved one find the perfect bone marrow match.
February 2, 2010 3:40 PM
A Pueblo West family is on a mission to find a bone marrow donor for their loved one after being touched by cancer. The family of Denise Devine decided to improve her odds of finding a life saving donor one cheek swab at a time. Denise's family held a... more » -
Faceless man hopes for transplant
January 21, 2010 1:02 PM
Dallas Wiens just wants to feel his daughter's kiss. Wiens, 24, suffered fourth-degree burns to his face when he touched a high-voltage power line -- and he lost all feeling to the face. "I can get kisses from my daughter," he said, "but I can't feel them, and I... more » -
Apple CEO Jobs on stage, discusses transplant
September 9, 2009 3:54 PM
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs has returned to his showman role - taking the stage Wednesday at a product launch event for the first time since his nearly six-month-long medical leave. Jobs, who had a liver transplant this spring, got a standing ovation. Looking thin and speaking quietly and with... more »
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