What would ve taken Rachael untold years was solved in mere months when her brother, Jonah, volunteered to enter the kidney paired donation donor pool.
There are troubling lapses in the nation s organ transplant system. Blood types mismatched, diseased organs transplanted anyway, and most often organs lost or damaged before they can save a life.
Ramiro Gonzales, 39, is set to die by lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a Southwest Texas woman whose remains were found almost 2 years after she vanished in 2001.
The collaboration follows a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report that found significant disparities in the nation s organ transplant system.