A living donor’s surgery is covered by the recipient’s insurance but not related costs such as lost wages. “It’s just an organ supply problem.”To try boosting that supply:–Apple says its upcoming software update will let iPhone users register as an organ donor through its health app, linking to Donate Life America’s national registry. “You have to have a Plan B.”Back across the hall again, Ghasemian made the last cut to Dana Hudson’s kidney and tugged it through a slit in the abdomen. Taking the kidney, Cooper flushed out the donor’s blood, cleaned away some yellowish fat and carefully carried it to Brenda Hudson — with one brief stop. Hudson’s initial donor, her older sister, has a scar stretching from belly to side where doctors cut into her rib cage.

Source: National Post July 11, 2016 13:07 UTC