Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1863: Alexis Carrel
Posted on · Episode: 1863 Alexis Carrel, the murky pioneer of organ transplants. Today, a president killed, and a Nobel Prize given.
Posted on · Episode: 1863 Alexis Carrel, the murky pioneer of organ transplants. Today, a president killed, and a Nobel Prize given.
Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: As a week of mourning continues for former Pres. George H.W. Bush, we learn about the role his presidential library in College Station is playing in memorializing him. We learn about complications for lung and liver transplant patients at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. We find out how Texas is using settlement money from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. And James Prince talks about founding Houston-based Rap-A-Lot Records.
Posted on · Houston Matters talks with the director of "Transplanting Hope" and learns about Houston's role in pioneering organ transplants.
Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: We discuss the significance of a new Coca Cola plant in Houston. We examine the Houston Symphony's efforts to be more diverse. We discuss whether celebrities and athletes should speak out on politics. We learn about a new documentary on organ transplants that features Houston. And a photographer talks about his portraits of the homeless.
Posted on · A man who received a heart transplant talks about meeting the parents of the young man whose heart he now carries.
Posted on · Last year, Houston Methodist Hospital coordinated a six-way kidney swap in which kidneys were donated to strangers in order that a loved one could receive a kidney from another stranger. It's a way hospitals try to boost the number of living organ donations to cut into the transplant waiting list. We talk with A. Osama […]
Posted on · A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week's news, we turn to our rotating panel of "non-experts" to parse The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of it all. This week our panel examines: Texas […]
Posted on · We meet Randy Creech, a Houston man who received a heart transplant 25 years ago. He tells the story of meeting the parents of the young man who gave him his heart.
Posted on · We meet Randy Creech, a Houston man who received a heart transplant 25 years ago. He tells the story of meeting the parents of the young man who gave him his heart.
Posted on · We meet Randy Creech, a Houston man who received a heart transplant 25 years ago. He tells the story of meeting the parents of the young man who gave him his heart.
Posted on · We hear from Willy Thornton, a heart transplant survivor participating in the annual Donate Life Transplant Games of America, taking place July 11-15 in Houston.