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Little Girl Who Needed Lung Transplants Due To Go Home

August 26, 2013 • Sarah Murnaghan, now 11, had only weeks to live earlier this summer when a judge ordered that she be moved up a transplant waiting list. Her case sparked a review of national organ transplant policy. Now, she's recovered enough to soon be able to go home.

Proposed Changes In Organ Donation Stir Debate

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Proposed Changes In Organ Donation Stir Debate

June 24, 2013 • Donation after cardiac death involves removing organs minutes after life-support has been stopped for patients who still have at least some brain activity. Is that enough time to make sure a person won't recover?

Proposed Changes In Organ Donation Stir Debate

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Olympic Hopeful Works To Improve Bone Marrow Registries

Starting a bone marrow registry in Nigeria "became an obsession" for Seun Adebiyi. "I thought that even if I couldn't find a match, I wanted to make it easier for other black patients to find a match." Seun Adebiyi hide caption

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Olympic Hopeful Works To Improve Bone Marrow Registries

July 23, 2012 • Lawyer and Winter Olympic hopeful Seun Adebiyi made his battle with leukemia a quest for more donors and better registries in African countries.

Olympic Hopeful Works To Improve Bone Marrow Registries

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Charla Nash received a full-face transplant after she was mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009. HO/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Transplants Bring New Faces In 2011

December 29, 2011 • Surgeons make full-face transplants a reality for people with severely disfigured faces. Three such operations were performed successfully in Boston this year, a turning point in the field.

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First Photos of Transplant Patient Released

August 11, 2011 • Charla Nash's face was mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009. Before the transplant, she wore a veil to conceal her grotesquely misshapen visage. Her transplanted face is smooth and normally proportioned, with little or no sign it came from another person, whose family consented to the donation after death.

A surgical team performs a full face transplant on Charla Nash at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Lightchaser Photography hide caption

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Woman Mauled By Chimp Gets A New Face

June 10, 2011 • Charla Nash, the woman whose face and hands were mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009, received a new face from surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She also received transplanted hands, but they had to be removed after a blood infection.