organ donation

The U.S. organ donation system is designed to save as many lives as possible without wasting organs, but some inequalities do raise questions of fairness.

The U.S. has reached a medical milestone — counting 1 million organ transplants since the first success back in 1954.

Scientists have temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work.

News4 Community Reporter Molette Green shares her sister’s story of getting new kidney and liver, and News4’s Pat Lawson Muse spoke with Washington Regional Transplant Community Director of Community Affairs Lesley Compagnone.

A former News4 photographer who got a lifesaving kidney transplant from his wife in 2009 needs another donation as that kidney is failing. News4’s Chris Gordon spoke with Ron Minor.

About 100,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant right now.

Carolyn Bullock, the sister of NBC4’s Molette Green, received a new liver and kidney. Now, amid her recovery, she’s encouraging others to become organ donors.

A shortage in organ donors is leading to a public health crisis. Could bioprinted organs be the answer? Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine think so. They hand-build organs using their patients’ own tissue and stem cells, but now 3D bioprinting technology is offering hope that they can reach even more patients, as well as those who...

Three men who were seriously ill after contracting COVID-19 received double lung transplants in Maryland.  The procedure is giving some patients hope, though the need for organs is far greater than the pool of available donors. Lung transplant patients live, on average, six years after the operation. John Micklus, of La Plata, Maryland, caught COVID-19 last Christmas. He spent weeks...

Mississippi dad Rhett Shaffette says he’s already had the best Father’s Day gift: His daughter is thriving, eight months after getting part of his liver

The family of a man who was shot and killed last week in D.C. is taking comfort in knowing his organs were donated to others.  Brandon Long died after he was shot the night of April 20 in the unit block of Franklin Street NE. He was a 30-year-old father who worked as a roofer, his parents said.  “Brandon...

Police are offering a reward for any information leading to Brandon Long’s killer. He was an organ donor who passed on the gift of life at the end of his own. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

News 4’s Chris Gordon explains how you can help one local couple searching for a donor. To help call: 202-715-4225 or visit https://www.gwhospital.com/conditions-services/transplant-institute/gift-of-life

An uncle’s spontaneous decision to become a liver donor not only saved his 1-year-old nephew’s life, it also dramatically changed his. own.

News4’s Aimee Cho captured the moment the woman and the man who received her kidney met for the first time.

A Maryland woman decided that her time would be best spent by doing something nice during the pandemic — so she decided to give her kidney to a complete stranger.

A Michigan nursing assistant contracted coronavirus from a patient and unknowingly spread it to her family before realizing she was sick. After her husband suffered serious complications, she’s now on mission to save his life by donating her kidney.

A single organ donor can save eight lives. But in April, the number of transplants and donors was cut in half. Anyone who tests positive for the virus can’t donate organs or tissues. News4’s Chris Gordon spoke with an Alexandria woman whose life depends on getting a transplant. To learn how to become a donor, visit BeADonor.org.

Born in 2012 in China, Paisley had half just half a heart. She got a new one, thanks to her new American parents.

A Maryland bill would increase the tax credit that living organ donors receive to $10,000, up from $7,500