Outcry over TV kidney competition
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A Dutch television show is criticised for offering a terminally ill woman's kidneys as a prize.
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In the past few months, Sarasota resident Mary Pierson has taken some of the most important tests of her life. Tests that determined she was a possible match for her husband, Mark, who needs a kidney transplant.
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A Dutch reality show that claims to be trying to draw attention to a shortage of organ donors said Tuesday it would go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman will choose a contestant to receive one of her kidneys.
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Rivaling Bush vs. Kerry for bitterness, doctors and trial lawyers are squaring off this fall in an unprecedented four-state struggle over limiting malpractice awards. The volatile issue is in voters' hands and each side is desperate to win, spending millions of dollars to make their cases and portray the other side as greedy.
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The Wayne Rooney incident at the weekend has brought into question once again the use of television playbacks to incriminate sportsman.
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Two men are donating kidneys to each other's wives in a four-way surgical swap at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. It is the first time such a swap among healthy, living donors and patients with kidney failure has taken place at the hospital.
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South-of-the-border street hawkers advertise suspicious kidney therapy. Part of Wired News' ongoing open-source investigation to out world quackery. In Bodyhack.
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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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There are a lot of words  you can use to describe reality-style competitions on TV, but  until the broadcast of NBC's "My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad"  on Monday, "wholesome" was not among them. There is more good  sportsmanship in this series than you'll find on a half-dozen  peewee soccer fields.
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Doctors have put aside ethical concerns to carry out a kidney transplant between two men who met online. A hospital in Denver originally postponed the operation amid worries that the recipient might have paid the donor for his organ.
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A Dutch doctors' association asked its members Friday not to take part in a TV show in which a terminally ill woman is to select from among three contestants to receive one of her kidneys.
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An award show isn&#39;t really an award show without some sort of unscheduled controversy, is it? This year&#39;s Vibe Awards had its fair share yesterday (November 15) as one person got stabbed during a fight near
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A Dutch reality television show in which a woman had to decide one of three contestants to whom she would donate a kidney was a hoax, the program makers said on Friday.
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The Dutch prime minister said a  reality television show about a &quot;dying&quot; woman donating her  kidneys, which turned out to be a hoax, was not the most  suitable way of highlighting the need for more organ donors.
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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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An attempted live broadcast of childbirth on British TV will be too "intrusive", a medical body says.
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MEMBERS of a church are to debate the ethics of running raffles and tombolas at church fetes.   Some members of the United Reformed Church in Kelvedon, Essex, think that encouraging gambling sends out the wrong message.  (c) 2007 Evening Mail; Birmingham (UK).