The Kidney Swap: Adventures in Saving Lives
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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Some able-bodied people want to improve their bodies with artificial parts. But their dreams may outpace the capabilities of technology. By Chris Oakes. Part four in a four-part series.
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DENVER -- A routine kidney transplant that was supposed to take place Monday was cancelled after the doctor who was going to perform the operation said he had &quot;ethical concerns&quot; about the procedure because the donor and recipient met on the Internet.
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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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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.
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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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Most people who live with serious disability or illness, such as kidney failure, appear to adapt well and maintain a healthy outlook on life, new research reports.
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The kidney dialysis unit of the public hospital in Nablus is running at capacity: four shifts a day serving nearly 100 patients. It would be a difficult task for any hospital. More so for one that has no money to pay its staff or buy fresh medical supplies.
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After her death, Maxine Watson saved at least two lives, having arranged for her organs to be donated to those who needed them most.
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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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A nurse from Cornwall meets the man she gave her kidney to in an altruistic swap.
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A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died on the waiting list.
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Lifesharers is trying to settle the competition for organs in a fair way: before you get one, you should be willing to give one
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A Sicilian entrepreneur has offered to donate parts of his body for organ transplants in an effort to keep his business alive.
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Science & environment: Objective of growing replacement organs for humans has been brought a step closer
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It took 12 surgeons, six operating rooms and five donors to pull it off, but five desperate strangers simultaneously received new organs in what hospital officials Monday described as the first-ever quintuple kidney transplant.
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NEW YORK  - 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.