Organ transplants

Coming up, when Candice needed a kidney, her husband Michael was ready to give one up — but her body wouldn’t accept it. So he gave it to someone else — in order let his wife get a stranger’s kidney. They’re part of the longest-ever chain of donors and recipients and they join program, next.

Three-year-old Amelia Rivera  has a rare genetic disease called Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome. She suffers from mental impairment, epileptic-like seizures, and she can’t walk or talk. Besides her illness she’s in desperate need of a kidney transplant to live to see her fourth birthday. But the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where Amelia is treated, told Amelia’s family that […]

An organ transplant recipient contracted HIV from a kidney donation at a New York hospital. It’s the nation’s first documented case of HIV transmission via a living donor transplant since the 1980s. How did this happen? What are the repercussions?