The list of patients waiting for organ transplants includes thousands who are ineligible for the operations, according to United Network for Organ Sharing statistics reported by the Washington Post. More than a third of the nearly 98,000 patients on the list at any one time are classified as “inactive,” meaning they could not be given [Sign in to read the full article...]

For the first time, surgeons in Miami have used transplant surgery to remove and replace multiple abdominal organs so they could reach and cut out a tumor in a female patient with a rare form of cancer, according to Medical News Today. The team of surgeons and their patient, 63-year old Brooke Zepp, a real [Sign in to read the full article...]

Another face transplant has been performed in France, according to the online newspaper eFlux Media. A team of French surgeons, headed by Professor Laurent Lantieri, have given Pascal Coler a new chance to live a normal life. Coler’s face had been heavily disfigured since childhood by the rare genetic disorder Von Recklinghausen’s disease. The condition [Sign in to read the full article...]

The mastermind of a scheme to plunder corpses from funeral homes and sell them for millions of dollars pleaded guilty in a deal that could send him to prison for the next five decades, the Associated Press reports. Michael Mastromarino, a 44-year-old former oral surgeon and owner of Biomedical Tissue Services, confessed to a judge [Sign in to read the full article...]

The transplant surgeon accused of illegally hastening the death of a prospective organ donor must stand trial on one of three felony charges filed against him, a judge ruled on March 19. Set for arraignment April 9, the case against Dr. Hootan Roozrokh will be the first such trial in the U.S., the Los Angeles [Sign in to read the full article...]