A helicopter transporting a donor heart to the Keck Hospital at the University of Southern California crashed on landing at the helipad over the weekend. The private chopper was carrying the organ for a transport patient and caused quite a bit of chaos, as you can imagine. The pilot was treated for

In 2006, Michael Stepien was shot and killed while walking home from work, but this didn’t stop him from attending his daughter’s wedding recently, because Jeni (Stepien, now Lynne) invited the man who received her father’s donated heart to walk her down the aisle, and it made for the most

Heather Clark’s 7-month-old son, Lukas, died in 2013, but because of Clark donating her son’s organs, 3 other children received a chance at life. And she recently got the chance to meet the 4-year-old girl who received her son’s heart. Donate Life Arizona shared photos of... The post Mother Hears

By Jack Day A medical first for the state of Michigan took place recently when 24 year old patient Stan Larkin went home after receiving a Total Artificial Heart. Normally those who are waiting to receive real hearts need to bridge the time in between by having one of these artificial hearts put