11.   After receiving news Monday morning about the donor organ, McKittrick did what he enjoys most.

12.   But this avenue has been hampered by chronic shortages of donor organs, problems of compatibility and rejection, concerns about transmitting infections and other problems.

13.   Donor organs are a rare commodity.

14.   Everyone wanted to know how he got a donor organ so quickly.

15.   He also held hands with dying patients who could not hold on long enough for a donor organ to become available.

16.   He got the organs just hours after his name was put on a waiting list for donor organs.

17.   If the results are confirmed, it would create an unprecedented demand for donor organs, Fradkin said, probably far beyond the supply.

18.   Just one donor, and Michael Barriga would not have been among the seven people who died Friday waiting for a donor organ.

19.   Last year Canadian researchers reported that transplants of human islet cells from donor organs had freed eight patients from the chore of daily insulin injections.

20.   Luskin believes the UMass episode reflects pressures on the nationwide organ-sharing system created by the worsening shortfall of donor organs as the number of transplants rises.