
To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?
By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her ...

Girl who took on transplant rules gets new lungs
A 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis was recovering from a transplant of adult lungs after a judge's ruling expanded her options for lifesaving ...

Pa. girl's double-lung transplant deemed success
A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation spurred public debate over how organs are allocated underwent a successful ...

Lung transplant vote for children seeks balance
Faced with a federal judge's order in the heart-wrenching cases of two terminally ill children seeking lung transplants, a national review board ...
US transplant network resists lung rule changes
The national organization that manages organ transplants on Monday resisted making emergency rule changes for children under 12 who are waiting on ...

Judge's ruling challenges US transplant system
It's a life or death matter: Who gets the next scarce donated organ? In an unprecedented challenge to the nation's transplant system, a federal judge ...

Pa. girl gets on lung donor list; boy also sues
A dying Pennsylvania girl has been placed on the adult waiting list for donated lungs amid a court fight over the nation's transplant rules with help ...
Sebelius: Pa. girl on waiting list for adult lung
The organ transplant network has placed a dying 10-year-old girl on the adult waiting list for a donated lung, complying with a judge's unusual order.

Cultural attitudes impede organ donations in China
China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country's transplant system said Friday that ...

Kosovo: 3 get jail time in organ trafficking case
A court in Kosovo found two citizens guilty of human trafficking and organized crime Monday in a major trial against seven people suspected of running ...
Correction: Transplant-Rabies Death story
In a story March 16 about the death of a transplant recipient from a rabies-infected liver, The Associated Press, relying on information from a ...

NC airman at center of rabies case was outdoorsman
When William Edward Small told his father that he'd signed an organ donor card, it came as no surprise. "Little Ed" had been that way his whole life, ...
Organ donations fall in Germany after scandal
Organ donations have dropped sharply in Germany following a scandal over alleged corruption at several transplant clinics. The German Foundation for ...