Transplant novel 'Mend the Living' wins Wellcome book prize

LONDON (AP) — A novel that explores the human side of organ transplantation through the story of a single heart won the medically themed Wellcome Trust Book Prize on Monday.

The other shortlisted books included "When Breath Becomes Air," doctor Paul Kalanithi's posthumously published account of his life with terminal cancer, and Siddhartha Mukherjee's genetics study "The Gene."