Desperately Seeking a Kidney
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What you learn about people â and yourself â when you need them to donate an organ.
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A mother is due to donate a kidney to her daughter in a live transplant at the University Hospital of Wales.
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A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, UK authorities warn.
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SEATTLE - A human kidney stolen from an exhibit of preserved bodies and organs was recovered after two months, thanks to an anonymous tip, police said.
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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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After 33 years of marriage, Ellie and Dan Tomczak have developed a nice symmetry. Five years ago, she received a donated kidney that saved her life, and three years later, he gave up one of his to save someone else&#39;s.
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Researchers report that the higher a personâs body mass index is, the less likely he is to receive a kidney transplant.
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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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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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For more than 18 fruitless months, Regina and Dennis Joyner searched for an Asian woman willing to donate her eggs. They were on the waiting list at two Washington area fertility clinics. They placed an online classified ad, but the most promising response came from Africa. Finally, they gave up.
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In the 10 days after Welch Flippin decided to stop dialysis and began succumbing to kidney failure, the 85-year-old Texas farmer and World War II veteran had something on his mind. Something, he told his son, he just had to do. He wanted to vote.
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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 wait of even three years for a kidney transplant is worth it, according to a Canadian study presented the American Society of Nephrology in St.
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Transplant surgeons and medical ethicists are outraged by the nation&#39;s first Internet-brokered organ transplant, performed last week in Denver.
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A Vail man who has been in a high-stakes battle with a Denver hospital over a kidney transplant says he was told that the operation he needs will go ahead Wednesday.
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The search for recipients for the first face transplants may be relatively easy. More difficult, experts say, will be finding people willing to donate their faces after death.
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Bypassing the waiting list, 58-year-old organ recipient finds donor through a commercial website