Organ transplants
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. According to a report by researchers from Johns Hopkins University published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday, June 14, 2021, a small study offers the first hint that an extra dose of COVID-19 vaccines just might give some organ transplant recipients a needed boost in protection. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Extra COVID vaccine may help protect transplant patients

By Lauran Neergaard Jun. 14, 2021 05:01 PM EDT

Debby-Neal Stricland and Mylaen Merthe show off donor/recipient tags they had made during a get together Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at a restaurant in Ocala, Fla. Debby now married to Jim Strickland donated a kidney to Mylaen Merthe, Jim's ex-wife. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Woman donates kidney to hubby's ex-wife days after wedding

By Kelli Kennedy Jun. 01, 2021 10:36 AM EDT

Sioux Falls man gets double lung transplant after COVID

Apr. 24, 2021 11:21 AM EDT
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Sioux Falls man has undergone a double lung transplant after suffering complications from COVID-19. The Sioux...

Kari Wegg shows the "clamshell" scar on her chest at her home in Westfield, Ind., on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, just a few months after undergoing a double-lung transplant. Wegg worries about how long her new lungs will last, despite reassurances from doctors. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Searching for footing in a life nearly extinguished by COVID

By Adam Geller Apr. 22, 2021 01:17 AM EDT

CORRECTS TO KARI, NOT KERI - Kari Wegg is reflected in a sliding glass door as she looks outside her home in Westfield, Ind., on Monday, March 22, 2021. The Indiana nurse came down with COVID-19 in the summer of 2020; her condition spiraled downward, and her life was saved only by grace of a double lung transplant. The road to normal is a long one, but she's bolstered by the love and support of her husband and sons, and by her own indomitable spirit. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Searching for footing in a life nearly extinguished by COVID

By Adam Geller Apr. 22, 2021 01:15 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Kentucky

By The Associated Press Apr. 21, 2021 08:06 AM EDT
Recent editorials from Kentucky newspapers: ___ April 19 The State Journal on organ and tissue...

This combination of radiographs provided on April 9, 2021, by Kyoto University Hospital, shows the chest of a patient before the surgery, left, and after the surgery, right. Doctors in Kyoto University Hospital announced Thursday, April 8, 2021, they have successfully performed the world’s first transplant of lung tissue from living donors to a patient with severe lung damage from COVID-19. (Kyoto University Hospital via AP)
COVID-19 patient receives lung transplant from living donors

By Mari Yamaguchi Apr. 08, 2021 10:09 AM EDT

Trachea transplant recipient Sonia Sein talks with the lead surgeon of her procedure, Dr. Eric Genden, left, during a checkup visit at Mt. Sinai hospital in New York on Monday, March, 22, 2021. Sein says she had spent the last six years “trying to catch every breath at every moment" after extensive treatment for her severe asthma damaged her windpipe. But she is breathing freely again after a January windpipe transplant. (AP Photo/Marshall Ritzel)
Woman recovering after rare windpipe transplant from donor

By Marion Renault And Marshall Ritzel Apr. 06, 2021 09:01 AM EDT

A South Korean elderly woman in a wheelchair arrives to receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 1, 2021. South Korea started its coronavirus vaccination for senior citizens over 75 years old. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP)
The Latest: SKorea's daily virus increase tops 500 again

By The Associated Press Apr. 02, 2021 05:54 AM EDT

Jackie Dennis, left, and her husband, Ricky Dennis, pose for a photo with their daughter, Mia Rose, at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit on March 17, 2021. Jackie gave birth in November 2020 after being diagnosed with COVID-19. She needed a double lung transplant in January 2021 to survive COVID-19. (Ray Manning/Henry Ford Health System Via AP)
Survivor: Woman with COVID-19 gives birth, gets new lungs

By Ed White Mar. 17, 2021 04:13 PM EDT

FILE - In this Dec. 29, 2020 file photo, Penny Cracas, with the Chester County, Pa., Health Department, fills a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in West Chester, Pa. A new study raised questions about how well COVID-19 vaccines protect organ transplant recipients — and what precautions people with suppressed immune systems should take after the shots. On Monday, March 15, 2021 researchers at Johns Hopkins University reported a first attempt to find out. They tested 436 people who had received new organs in recent years and were getting the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
How well do COVID vaccines protect after organ transplant?

By Lauran Neergaard Mar. 15, 2021 07:31 PM EDT

Joe DiMeo poses for a portrait, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 at NYU Langone Health in New York, six months after an extremely rare double hand and face transplant. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
'New chance at life': Man gets face, hands in rare surgery

By Marion Renault And Marshall Ritzel Feb. 03, 2021 12:03 AM EST

Dr. Philippe Montravers speaks with The Associated Press at the main entrance of the Bichat Hospital, in Paris on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. Montravers and the 150 doctors and nurses he leads have become experts about how to treat COVID-19. That knowledge is proving invaluable against a second deadly surge of the virus is again threatening to overwhelm European health systems. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Amid virus surge, Paris hospitals begin to see signs of hope

By John Leicester Nov. 14, 2020 02:22 AM EST

In this photo provided by Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital, Arthur Sanchez, left, speaks with Dr. Ashwini Arjuna during a follow-up appointment, post-transplant, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Seven months after he was first hospitalized in his hometown of Las Cruces, New Mexico, with COVID-19, the 52-year-old utility worker has a brand new set of lungs. (Courtesy of Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital via AP)
Virus survivor: Double lung transplant 'a walking miracle'

By Terry Tang Nov. 12, 2020 05:31 PM EST

Idaho coronavirus cases rise, doctors urge careful behavior

By Rebecca Boone Oct. 13, 2020 06:10 PM EDT
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho health care experts say coronavirus is increasing as kids are returning to school — but most of the new infections aren't happening...

FILE - In this May 1, 2013, file photo, Carmen Blandin Tarleton speaks at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston following a face transplant. In February 2007 her estranged husband doused her with industrial strength lye, burning more than 80 percent of her body. In July 2020, Tarleton became the first American and only the second person globally to undergo a second face transplant procedure after her first transplant failed. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
AP Exclusive: Woman is 1st in US to get 2nd face transplant

By Michael Casey Aug. 07, 2020 09:33 AM EDT

Mayra Ramirez, a COVID-19 survivor due to a double-lung transplant, listens Thursday, July 30, 2020, to a question about her journey through the pandemic during her first news conference at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Ramirez is the first known patient in the United States who received double-lung transplants due to COVID-19. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
COVID patient didn't recognize body after double transplant

Jul. 30, 2020 06:35 PM EDT

Ivory Coast's Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, center-right, stands next to France's President Emmanuel Macron, right, during the French President's visit to the country, in the Koumassi suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019. Ivory Coast's Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the presidential candidate of Ivory Coast's ruling party, died Wednesday, July 8, 2020 just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France, where he previously had undergone a heart transplant, the country's presidency announced. (AP Photo/Diomande Ble Blonde)
Ivory Coast PM, presidential candidate Amadou Coulibaly dies

By Toussaint N'gotta And Krista Larson Jul. 08, 2020 02:48 PM EDT

In this photo provided by Cho Ray Hospital, a doctor attends to “Patient 91”, a British pilot who survived COVID-19 and seated on a wheelchair as he was recovering at Cho Ray hospital on June 11, 2020 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The British pilot who was Vietnam’s most critical COVID-19 patient is virus free and has recovered enough to make the long flight home next Sunday, doctors said, Monday, July 6. (Cho Ray Hospital via AP)
British pilot to leave Vietnam for home after virus recovery

By Hau Dinh Jul. 06, 2020 11:46 PM EDT

This X-ray image provided by Northwestern Medicine in June 2020 shows the chest of a COVID-19 patient before she received a new set of lungs because of severe lung damage from the coronavirus, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. (Northwestern Medicine via AP)
Coronavirus survivor in US receives double lung transplant

By Lindsey Tanner Jun. 11, 2020 07:02 AM EDT