organ donation

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...

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

Veteran San Diego journalist Jesse Macias died Friday of heart failure, loved ones of the longtime local figure announced.

Longtime San Diego journalist Jesse Macias died on June 4, 2021, of heart failure. Macias worked at CBS 8 and was well- known in the local news community. Over the years, he had received two kidney transplants, the second from former NBC 7 News editor Susan Wooley in 2014. He will be missed.

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.

NBC 7’s Joe Little has an update on a story he brought you last week.

Steve Smiley has stood outside the Rancho Bernardo Community Park almost every night for the past few months. He waved at every car and spoke to anyone who wanted to know about his sign: “Stephen Smiley needs a kidney! Can you help? “I was hopeful that I’d get some response, but I wasn’t sure what would happen,” Smiley said....

A local organ donation group, Lifesharing, honored a San Diego Fire-Rescue captain who saved lives even after he passed. Captain Robin Cervantes died in an off-duty accident in September of 2019. The 54-year-old father of seven daughters had encouraged his family to be organ donors.   “He really believed in education and science and advancing the medical industry,” Cervantes’ daughter…

The late captain’s organs helped save four lives. NBC 7’s Mark Mullen has the story.

NBC 7’s Joe Little brings us a story about a man who is counting on a stranger to save his life.

Steve Smiley isn’t begging for money or work. He wants you to save his life.

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.

The nonprofit that coordinates organ donations in San Diego and Imperial counties said Wednesday that over 400 lives were saved through organ donations in 2019.