By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Several relatives of patients who died while awaiting a new liver say they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating a hospital waitlist. Officials at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center have said they are investigating after
Several relatives of patients who died while awaiting a new liver say they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating a hospital waitlist
DALLAS (AP) — Several relatives of patients who died while waiting for a new liver said Wednesday they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating the waitlist to make some patients ineligible to receive a new organ. Officials at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center […]
An increasing number of Memorial Hermann patients have died while anxiously waiting on transplant lists that could've granted them life-saving organs, according to data from the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network.
Officials said about “two football fields” worth of rubber products burned at Derichebourg Recycle USA.
A motor vehicle collision Tuesday on the city’s near east side sent two children to hospital. The collision happened around 4 p.m. in the 2300 block of Westcott Road., just south of Tecumseh Road East. Police said two young children reportedly ran into the street to retrieve a basketball and were struck by a northbound […]
A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplanted pig kidney, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Doctors at NYU Langone Health say 54-year-old Lisa Pisano is recovering well. She is only the second patient ever to receive a pig kidney. The first, a man transplanted last month in Boston, also is faring well. Pisano was far sicker, suffering a combination of heart and kidney failure. It's the latest in a string of attempts to make...
United Nations leaders demanded a “clear, transparent and credible” investigation Tuesday after mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of men and women were discovered on the grounds of two major hospitals in Gaza that were previously under assault by the Israeli military. The mass graves contained some people stripped naked with their hands tied,
A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU Langone Health reports that Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second. Her new kidney has just a single genetic modification—an approach that researchers hope…
64-year-old Jerry Whittington was removed from the liver transplant waiting list and subsequently died in 2023, according to his family.
Police are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy in Dauphin County.
A Toronto police officer has been charged for allegedly lying to investigators probing a criminal case involving an individual he had a relationship with. In a news release on Friday, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) said earlier this week, it laid two counts of attempting to obstruct justice and one count of perjury on Const. Werton Maciel-Sampaio TPS alleges that the 39-year-old officer began an inappropriate relationship with a civilian in Dec. 2020 during the course of his duties. ...