Walter Daniel, a former Coast Guard officer, filed a wrongful death lawsuit after his wife died following childbirth at a military hospital in 2015, but it was dismissed based on a 68-year-old federal ruling. After two failed appeals, he petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to allow active-duty service members to seek legal damages for medical […]
JoNel Aleccia | Kaiser Health News
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Senior citizens, even 80-year-olds, can be organ donors
Even though senior citizens’ corneas, kidneys, live and other tissue are viable, organ donations from them rarely happen. Of the 9,079 deceased organ donors in the U.S. in 2015, only 618 were aged 65 or older, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, or OPTN.