Tag: organs

University Medical Center hosts first-ever honor walk for teen organ donor Raw video: University Medical Center of Southern Nevada hosted its first-ever honor walk for Michael Sigler, an 18-year-old organ donor who was killed in a motorcycle crash. Hundreds lined the halls of a Nevada hospital as an 18-year-old boy who died in a motorcycle accident

Number of organ donations in Germany goes back The number of organ donations in Germany back again: on the Occasion of organ donation day on 1. June the German society for urology (DGU) to the fact that the number of organ donations, following a slight improvement in 2018 in the first quarter of 2019 again

For years, doctors told 14-year-old Grace Jackson-Matthew that her chronic pain was just in her head—yet she and her family knew it was something more. Finally, after traveling to Germany to see a new set of physicians, she received an explanation for her pain that was more frightening than she ever imagined.  Jackson-Matthew, who's from the UK,

Doctors at the trauma centre of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) received an unusual request from the family of a 22-year-old brain dead man they were counselling to agree to donate his organs. The family was willing, but insisted his sperm be retrieved and banked so it could be used for conception

Watch the stomach-churning moment surgeons removed 14 wriggling worms from a woman’s organs WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT  The woman, known only as Sunita, was in such pain she could barely stand  She had more than dozen worms measuring 15-20cm each in her bile duct After being sent home with antibiotics, surgeons finally removed the worms  She