Jesica Santillan, a 17-year-old girl who received the wrong heart and lungs in a transplant, needs prayers to survive. Our Hearts go out to 17 years old Jessica Santillan who lay in critical condition ...

Carolina Donor Services makes initial offer of a transplantable heart to Duke University Hospital. 1. CDS first contacted Dr. Milano, the on-call surgeon in charge of adult heart transplants. Because ...

It is estimated that as many as 100,000 people die every year from medical mistakes. Yet most of the time, very few people ever know about it. That changed last month when surgeons at Duke University ...

The 17-year-old girl who underwent a second heart-lung transplant after surgeons mistakenly implanted organs of the wrong blood type has suffered apparently irreversible brain damage, officials at ...

Mining for nuggets of outrage, as is my wont, I began sifting Monday through the details of the organ-donation flap that followed the death of 17-year-old Jesica Santillan. As has been widely reported ...

One of the country's top medical centers is trying to find out how it botched a heart-lung transplant that was supposed to save the life of a 17-year-old girl but instead put her closer to death.

Jesica Santillan’s four-year journey from Mexico to the United States for a new heart and lungs ended in futility Saturday, when she died at Duke University Medical ...

Jesica Santillan, the teenager who survived a botched heart-lung transplant long enough to get an odds-shattering second set of donated organs, died Saturday afternoon. She was declared brain dead at ...