By 21, most people are figuring out careers, relationships, and maybe how to pay off a first car, not whether they are going to lose an organ. For Caris Gibson, a young woman whose life has been ...

Woman, 21, faces losing her bladder after dismissing rare condition as UTI - Caris Gibson was diagnosed with the rare urinary ...

In May, surgeons at USC and UCLA collaborated to perform the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant. Currently, when a bladder fails or needs to be removed, doctors create a “neobladder” using a ...