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December 30, 2015

Girl with cancer gets final, unforgettable Christmas

A 4-year-old Virginia girl given months to live in September held on for one final Christmas before passing away Tuesday, reports WTVR.

December 22, 2015

Woman who sold handmade bracelets to fund double lung transplant raising money for other patients

Mere minutes before Maria Gamboa’s surgeons planned to hook her up to a machine that would have oxygenated her blood and sustained her vital organs, Gamboa received the news: Doctors had identified a donor match to replace her failing lungs.

December 21, 2015

Pennsylvania girl, 8, who had quadruple-organ transplant meets donor's parents

An 8-year-old Pennsylvania girl who underwent a rare quadruple-organ transplant in November met the parents of her donor last week.

December 21, 2015

New rules bringing kidneys to hardest-to-transplant patients

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A shake-up of the nation's kidney transplant system means more organs are getting to patients once thought nearly impossible to match, according to early tracking of the new rules.

December 18, 2015

Mom correctly predicted her own death— but survived

When Stephanie Arnold suffered an amniotic fluid embolism (which happens in only one in every 40,000 pregnancies) mere seconds after the birth of her second child in May 2013, she died.

December 15, 2015

Boy born with partial skull meets Santa, celebrates other childhood milestones

The Florida boy who made headlines in 2014 after being born with a partial skull due to a rare condition recently met Santa, and the photos of their encounter have started to go viral on Facebook.

December 15, 2015

Florida boy born with severe brain malformation defies odds to celebrate first birthday

When the parents of 13-month-old Jaxon Buell were told their son had a severe birth defect and may not survive past birth, they didn’t know what to expect.

December 9, 2015

Mother chooses to have child 12 weeks early to undergo chemotherapy

A 33-year-old British mother of three has been forced to make the choice no parent would want to make: saving her own life or saving her unborn child’s.

November 25, 2015

8-year-old daughter of cancer survivors diagnosed with rare form of breast cancer

After beating cancers of their own, Troy Turner and his wife, Annette Turner, must muster up the strength to survive another battle— this time, for their daughter Chrissy,  who has been diagnosed with a rare form of the disease.

November 13, 2015

Kentucky sisters on cross-country road trip to find bone marrow match

When Sam Kimura learned she had a life-threatening blood disorder at age 17, the diagnosis shook up her life.