My Brothers’ Keeper: The Experience Of A Living Donor
Our guests explain the donation process and the physical and mental challenges many face.
Organ Transplants Sub-categories:
- Kidney Transplant (1)
- Liver Transplant (3)
- Lung Transplant (2)
Medical Notes: Why Grocery Taxes May Be Good For Us, The World’s First Partial Heart Transplant, and a New Treatment For Cancer
The world’s first partial heart transplant is inspiring hope. A new advancement in cancer treatment. Are grocery taxes good for our health?
Not So Rare: What’s Causing The Rise In Pediatric Kidney Stones?
Dr. Greg Tasian explains what causes kidney stones and how to reduce your child’s risk.
Medical Notes: Why You Should Keep a Dream Journal, How Music Moves Our Cells, and How Fashion Is Helping the Visually Impaired
Dreams boost productivity; music aids insulin release; new drug combats organ rejection; touch-based wearables guide navigation.
How Doctors Can Transplant Organs Without a Donor Match
This week, we discuss how creative thinking and plasma exchange technology helped save one patient's life.
Pig Organs Could Solve the Organ Shortage Crisis
Doctors successfully transplanted pig kidneys into a brain-dead human for the first time. An expert discusses the future of organ transplants.
Dealing With Lifelong Disease
Life-threatening, lifelong chronic diseases from infancy are at the top of the list of medical challenges. A woman who has dealt with cystic fibrosis her entire life discusses how mindset is often the biggest factor in living a full life with such a disease, and sets out her recipe for shoring up one’s approach.
3D Printing of Replacement Organs
Scientists are developing 3D printing technology using human cells to build human organs. The technique could be used to grow organs for transplant, relieving the long waitlist. Experts discuss.
Medical Notes: August 8, 2021
A new study shows that antibiotic exposure early in life could alter a child’s brain development. Then, the stress of the pandemic has led to a sharp increase in teenage eating disorders. And finally, researchers have found a potentially lifesaving heart attack treatment in a most unusual place.
Organ Thieves: The First Human Heart Transplant in the South
An investigative journalist explains how a black man’s heart was harvested without his family’s consent for the first human heart transplant in the South, and how incidents such as this help to explain ongoing African-American distrust of medicine.
Medical Notes: Week of August 9, 2020
A study find that Covid-19 can damage the testicles. Then doctors have discovered a way to predict who is likely to be affected by organ rejection or damage. And finally, if social media makes you mad, it turns out that its heaviest users want you to feel that way.
Lung Transplants: The Least-Transplanted Major Organ
Lung transplants are the least done of all major organ transplants because the lungs are so easily damaged in the death process. A lung transplant surgeon explains, using one particularly difficult case as an example.
