Effort to increase organ donation
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A raft of proposals is being put forward in a bid to increase the number of people in Scotland who donate organs.
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THE number of organ transplants carried out in Scotland has dropped by almost a fifth in the past five years because of a growing shortage of suitable donors.
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Presumed consent for organ donation scheme put on back burner as taskforce unveils alternative measures
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QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec and Ontario will just be tinkering with organ donation rules in 2005 when what the system desperately needs is a complete overhaul, says an outspoken transplant advocate.
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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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Britain said Wednesday that a series of procedural changes at hospitals could boost the rate of organ donation by 50 percent within five years.
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There has been a big increase in the number of people undergoing cosmetic plastic surgery.
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While fatal in adults, organ transplants from donors with different blood types work in children under 2. The trick? Taking advantage of children's underdeveloped immune systems. By the Associated Press.
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The art and science of successfully harvesting an organ from one body to give new life to another turns 50 today. Since the first successful kidney transplant by Dr.
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Kidneys from young donors should be matched to young recipients to extend the life of kidney transplants, says a study presented Oct. 31 at the the American Society of Nephrology annual meeting in St.
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Children who receive organ transplants with a non-matching blood type can grow accustomed to the foreign tissue over the long run, a study has shown.
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Every day, more than 15 people die in the United States while waiting for a lifesaving organ that never comes. At this very moment in New England, two babies under the age of 1 year old need livers.
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An American scientific study shows that artificial hearts can keep heart-transplant candidates alive before the donor organ is available and it also helps prolong their life after transplant.
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A much-criticised Dutch TV hoax featuring a "competition" for a kidney boosts the number of organ donors.
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Washington - The national organ transplant network is asking hospitals to discourage patients from advertising for donors and, if possible, to refuse to perform transplants that arise from these campaigns.
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A change in the law so that anyone who dies is presumed to have agreed to donate their organs for transplant, unless they obtain a specific opt-out, was urged Tuesday by Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson.
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Scientists say they have found a safe way to give carbon monoxide to help organ transplant patients.