1. He stopped playing in 2002, made a brief comeback after his transplant and retired in 2006.

2. Yet until the morning of the transplant itself, we had never met in person.

3. At three years after a lung transplant, about a third of the people who got them are dead.

4. He says many of the operations are linked to transplant tourism, with wealthy foreign patients travelling to Pakistan for treatment.

5. Hudson has heart disease and is on a transplant waiting list.

6. Steve Jobs turned down a liver transplant from Apple CEO Tim Cook, according to a new biography.

7. Facebook says it unintentionally blocked fundraising ads for an infant needing a heart transplant, and has since apologized.