Internet kidney op gets go-ahead
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Doctors have put aside ethical concerns to carry out a kidney transplant between two men who met online.
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New findings indicate there may be advantages of removing only a kidney tumor, and not the entire organ.
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Make sure your donation does what you want.
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DENVER Bob Hickey is making history on the operating table today -- becoming the first patient who obtained an organ via a for-profit Web site.
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Denver, CO. - A hospital decides to do kidney donor surgery for Matchingdonors.com after turning them away on Monday. Now a historic kidney transplant is underway at a Denver, Colorado, hospital.
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The nation&#39;s organ transplant officials are scrambling to try to develop rules to guide surgeons and hospitals coping with a new twist: organ donors and recipients who find each other on the Internet.
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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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NEW YORK  - Patients with small kidney tumors are more likely to have "radical nephrectomy" (i.e., complete surgical removal of the affected kidney) than partial nephrectomy, despite evidence showing that the two approaches are equally effective, new research 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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A man who donated his kidney to a dialysis patient he met through the Internet has accepted a television show's offer to take a lie detector test aimed at rebutting claims he was paid.
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When my kidneys failed, I thought I'd have to wait for an anonymous donor.
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When Dr. Robert Wachter&#39;s wife underwent surgery in October to donate a kidney to a friend, her chief anxiety, he said, was &quot;the possibility that she might be killed by a medical mistake.
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A new test can detect kidney disease triggered by inflammation of the blood vessels before symptoms become apparent.
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The revised &quot;Medical checkup standards for Civil servants enrollment (trial)&#39;&#39; has been published online. Compared with the original one there are great amendments for the revised one.
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Although it has been a long time coming, physicians are beginning to consider the Internet an integral part of their practice. For example, instantaneous
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Patients with chronic kidney failure could be freed from fixed dialysis machines, thanks to a wearable artificial kidney that has shown promising results in a pilot study.
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Bypassing the waiting list, 58-year-old organ recipient finds donor through a commercial website