April is Donate Life Month. It’s dedicated to raising awareness about the need for organ donation.
Every year, surgeons perform more than 9,000 liver transplants. Those transplants are often a race against time, as a liver from a donor only survives outside of the human body for about 12 hours.
Now, scientists are testing a new protocol that may not only keep livers viable longer, but improve their function after transplantation.
Andrea Ludema explains more in today’s Healthy Living.
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