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From father’s farewell to four new beginnings: brain-dead son’s final gift

From father’s farewell to four new beginnings: brain-dead son’s final gift

Dressed in a yellow hospital visitor’s jacket, the man steadies himself on crutches and enters the room where his son, unconscious after a traffic accident, is waiting for organ donation surgery.
US surgeons perform first pig-to-human kidney transplant

US surgeons perform first pig-to-human kidney transplant

Double tragedy: organ donors' families slandered

Double tragedy: organ donors' families slandered

Vietnamese kidney broker arrested in Hanoi

Vietnamese kidney broker arrested in Hanoi

A man has been arrested for brokering kidney deals for patients in need at a military hospital in Hanoi.
June 19, 2020 | 10:16 pm PT
Vietnam performs world’s first living donor hand transplant

Vietnam performs world’s first living donor hand transplant

A Hanoi hospital has successfully transplanted a hand from one living human to another in the first such instance anywhere in the world.
February 24, 2020 | 05:57 pm PT
Sizeable rise in organ donations insufficient to meet Vietnam demand

Sizeable rise in organ donations insufficient to meet Vietnam demand

The number of organ donation registrations this year is 150 times more than five years ago, but demand in Vietnam remains far higher.
August 24, 2019 | 05:30 pm PT
Five arrested for kidney trade involving hundreds of donors

Five arrested for kidney trade involving hundreds of donors

An illegal kidney brokering ring was busted by Vietnamese authorities Thursday, the biggest ever in the country's history.
January 31, 2019 | 05:20 pm PT
In a heartbeat: Doctors, police rush donated heart from Hanoi to Saigon

In a heartbeat: Doctors, police rush donated heart from Hanoi to Saigon

They had six hours to take the heart from one body and put it in another a thousand miles away.
March 19, 2018 | 09:04 pm PT
Touching story of dying 7-year-old inspires organ donors in Vietnam

Touching story of dying 7-year-old inspires organ donors in Vietnam

The little girl agreed to donate her cornea before she died of a brain tumor last week.
February 27, 2018 | 09:14 pm PT
Hanoi boy given chance to live with heart transplant from road crash victim

Hanoi boy given chance to live with heart transplant from road crash victim

‘My son gets to live only because another family lost theirs,’ his mother said.
March 22, 2017 | 12:43 am PT
Roughly 16,000 patients await organs in Vietnam

Roughly 16,000 patients await organs in Vietnam

Doctors say the organs of many viable brain-dead donors have gone unharvested.
November 16, 2016 | 06:56 pm PT
Disabled man volunteers for first head transplant in Vietnam

Disabled man volunteers for first head transplant in Vietnam

An out of body experience: pushing the limits of bravery and medicine.
August 11, 2016 | 12:09 am PT
 
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