A Texas Transplant Family is Grateful for Newborn Screening
September 2, 2025 — September is Newborn Screening Awareness Month, which is the month set aside to educate parents about the importance of this life-saving testing. Each year, about four million infants in the United States are screened for serious disorders present at birth. Of those four million, screening typically identifies more than 12,000 babies…
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A Hawaii Transplant Family is Celebrating National Multiethnic Awareness Month
Please register to be a Life-Saving Organ or Tissue Donor August 1, 2025 — August is National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month. This national observance was initiated in 1998 as a single day to increase our nation’s consciousness of the need for more organ and tissue donors from multicultural backgrounds. In 2020, this nationwide effort was…
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A U.S. Air Force Family is Celebrating Our Nation’s Independence and Two Kids’ Liver Transplants
July 1, 2025 — July will be a month of celebrations for COTA’s Ward Family of California. When our nation pauses on July 4th to commemorate our independence and recognize those who protect our freedom, COTA Dad Josef Ward, currently serving in the U.S. Air Force, will be one of those we salute. This military…
The Best Father’s Day Gift – A Son’s Second Chance at Life
June 2, 2025 — June is a month full of family and fun, especially on the third weekend when families gather to celebrate dads. Father’s Day is a special holiday for the Roy family of Gardner, Massachusetts. But this year it has even greater significance because this family of three will celebrate Father’s Day together,…
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May is Digestive Disease Awareness Month: A New Transplant Has Transformed a Teen’s Life
May 1, 2025 — May is National Digestive Disease Awareness Month. People suffering from digestive diseases experience severe pain, daily discomfort and personal distress. Chronic Pancreatitis is an extremely painful digestive disease. Until recently, people who suffered with chronic pancreatitis had to simply live with the pain. May is also the month set aside to…
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April is Donate Life Month: A North Carolina Teen is Waiting for The Call … and His New Heart
April 1, 2025 — April is celebrated nationwide as Donate Life Month, which was instituted by Donate Life America and its partnering organizations in 2003. It features an entire month of local, regional and national activities to help encourage Americans to register as organ and tissue donors … and to celebrate those who have saved…
