Advocates say the need for organ donors is especially significant in communities of color.
Even before he was born, CJ Adams' heart was ailing. Surgeries and medications helped, but before turning 9, CJ went into heart failure and was listed for transplant. In January, the nearly 4-year wait for a new heart ended.
After a virus attacked his heart, Keath Gerald couldn't walk across his college campus. He didn't think he'd live to age 25. But 10 years after receiving a heart and liver transplant, Gerald finished 2 college degrees and now mentors others trying to achieve their college dreams.
More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, as an alternative, scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike.
A daughter dedicated to community health care and her active father share their experience with living kidney donation, hoping to dispel myths in the community and encouraging more to share the gift of life.
Doctors at a New York hospital performed a rare three-organ transplant procedure all in one.