A woman who thought she had a stomach bug turned out to have a life-threatening condition which cost her a leg. Lisa Jones, from Wrexham in Wales, was living normally before her illness – running a cleaning business and taking care of
At this year’s British Transplant Games, one athlete will have two mothers cheering him on – his own, and the mother of the organ donor who saved his life. In 2011, 21-year-old Justin passed away suddenly. He had made it clear he
Roger Graham needs a kidney — the sooner, the better. Graham, a 37-year-old New Hampshire resident, was very active and in good health with no family history of kidney disease when his kidneys suddenly failed during the summer of 2021. Graham thus
A former Nigerian politician is accused of conspiring or arranging to traffick a street trader to the UK to harvest organs for his sick daughter, who had a worsening kidney condition, the Old Bailey heard. Ike Ekweremadu is charged with conspiring to
Prince Harry has claimed he knew he was born as a “spare” in case his older brother William needed an organ donation. The brothers were reportedly often referred to as “the heir and the spare” amongst members of the Firm. Writing in
In an effort to ease the nation’s organ shortage, scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones. Workers in a suburban Minneapolis lab dissolve pig cells that made the organ function, leaving ghostly semitranslucent scaffolds floating in large