Organ-donor firsts praised, questioned
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VANCOUVER -- Two British Columbia residents each gave up a kidney to save strangers, becoming the first living people in Canada to anonymously become organ donors.
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Surgeons in China who said they   performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove   the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems   it caused to the recipient and his wife.
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Description: On Dec. 23, 1954, Boston doctors gave a kidney to a 23-year-old man in the first successful long-term transplant of a human organ.
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TORONTO (CP) - More heart-transplant patients are surviving longer than 10 years ago, but a shortfall in the number of donor organs means Canadians continue to die while awaiting a new heart, a report released Wednesday shows.
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DENVER Oct 20, 2004 - A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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Shocked but not surprised seems to sum up Indian reaction to a transplant ring harvesting kidneys from laborers
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Everyone should be an organ donor when they die unless they have asked not to be, the chief medical officer says.
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Michael Ferreira was given the precious gift of life not once, but twice from his mother, Dawn Frasca, who donated a kidney to her son June 19, 2001. Ferreira, who was a teenager at the time and suffered from a disease that shrank his kidneys, not only recovered but went on to star on the Nantucket basketball team and became ...
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A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site &#151; a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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WASHINGTON -- Why is the subject of giving such a difficult thing to discuss? Some folks would rather ask someone for a kidney than for a donation to a charitable cause.
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As the world&#39;s first successful kidney transplant celebrates its 50th birthday, medical organisations are warning there is a critical shortage of donors.
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Public support grows in Scotland for a radical change to organ donation, the British Medical Association says.
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CLEVELAND -- A person severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using tissues from an organ donor.
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Extremely obese adults in need  of a kidney transplant appear to wait longer for a donor organ  than their thinner counterparts do, a study has found.
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Surgeons completed a kidney transplant Wednesday in what is believed to be the first operation where the donor and recipient met through a commercial Web site.
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Authorities are finding new ways to encourage organ donation, including indirectly compensating donors and families. Charles H. Patrick, director of the Alabama Organ Center, said 11 states have passed laws
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A patient whose double lung transplant operation was stopped after a plane carrying donor organs crashed into Lake Michigan has received a second set of lungs, doctors announced Friday.