In a shocking and illegal development, Pakistani police have uncovered an organ harvesting ring that operated with the assistance of a car mechanic who administered anesthesia. Alongside Dr. Fawad Mukhtar, the mechanic, and six others have been apprehended. According to CNN, they are accused of performing 328 operations in which patients had their kidneys …
Maurice Miller, a 57-year-old man who is brain-dead, is being kept alive at NYU Langone Health in New York City for a groundbreaking study. Doctors are studying his transplanted pig kidney, which has been functioning for 32 days, a record-breaking time. This is significantly longer than what was previously observed in pig kidney transplants …
Molly Jones finally met the woman who saved her father’s life and was about to save hers, just a week before receiving a life-saving kidney. In 2016, paramedic Kristi Hadfield successfully restarted John Cunningham’s heart after it stopped while she was accompanying him to the hospital. She later found him and his daughter on Facebook …