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Long Island teen finds kidney donor living minutes away

  • Apr 10

Woman with Stage 4 cancer has life-changing transplant in Chicago

  • Mar 12

14-year-old boy in desperate need of kidney transplant

  • Feb 19

Memorial Hermann reactivates transplant program 1 year after scandal

  • Apr 7, 2025

Mem. Hermann doctor admitted to altering transplant list: Records

  • Sep 21, 2024

More families come forward amid Memorial Hermann transplant scandal

  • Apr 30, 2024

Family wasn't notified when organ transplant program was suspended

  • Apr 25, 2024

Widow says husband would be alive if 'certain things had not happened'

  • Apr 25, 2024

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Former surgeon acknowledges changing patient criteria: Docs

  • May 12
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Memorial Hermann reactivates transplant program 1 year after scandal

  • Apr 7, 2025
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Memorial Hermann doctor admitted to altering transplant list, records show

  • Sep 21, 2024
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Boy discovers passion for art after double lung transplant

  • May 8, 2024
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More families seek court order against doctor involved in Memorial Hermann transplant scandal

  • Apr 30, 2024
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Hospital, doctor face growing legal action in transplant shutdown

  • Apr 25, 2024
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Family wasn't notified when organ transplant program was suspended

  • Apr 25, 2024
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4-year-old leaves Texas Children's with new lungs after 307 days

  • Mar 16, 2023

Latest Stories

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Woman is 1st patient to undergo combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.

  • Apr 24, 2024

Families of 3 patients who died waiting for transplants want to keep doctor from destroying evidence

Three families of patients who died while waiting for an organ transplant sought a court order against the former director of Memorial Hermann's liver and kidney transplant programs amid an investigation into "inappropriate activity."

  • Apr 24, 2024
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New race-neutral kidney evaluation moves thousands of Black patients up transplant waitlist

More than 14,000 kidney transplant candidates were moved up the waitlist thanks to the new evaluation. Experts say this is an example of identifying the inappropriate use of race in medical care.

  • Apr 23, 2024

Man waiting 6 years for kidney learns program is suspended, his doctor under investigation

"Should I trust what I'm being told?" a cancer survivor questioned after waiting years for a new kidney and learning his transplant program came to a halt and his doctor was under investigation.

  • Apr 16, 2024

Surgeon removed as Memorial Hermann's liver, kidney transplant leader amid bombshell report

The Houston medical community is still sorting through the allegations against a top doctor that led to a hospital system suspending its liver and kidney transplant programs.

  • Apr 12, 2024