Internet Kidney Donor Glad He Donated
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A man who donated a kidney to a Colorado man he met through a Web site says he should be considered "a hero," and insists his past &#151; including more than &#36;8,000 in overdue child support payments &#151; has nothing to do with his decision to help.
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Make sure your donation does what you want.
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Black donors are preferable for blacks receiving kidneys because of the organ's sensitivity to genetic factors. But medical specialists say the number of black donors is not keeping up with the huge need, due in part to a distrust of doctors stemming from the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.
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Michael Ferreira was given the precious gift of life not once, but twice from his mother, Dawn Frasca, who donated a kidney to her son June 19, 2001. Ferreira, who was a teenager at the time and suffered from a disease that shrank his kidneys, not only recovered but went on to star on the Nantucket basketball team and became ...
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An 11-month-old Japanese boy smiled and laughed in his mother's arms Friday as doctors talked of his progress from a six-organ transplant, an operation done here because children's organ donations are banned in Japan.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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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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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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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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Online charitable gift cards allow the recipient to choose the organization that will receive the money given in his or her name.
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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.
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When Rob Smitty returned home after donating a kidney to a stranger, he talked about hoping "my children can be proud and look up and say, `My dad did this.'"
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A man who donated a kidney to someone he met over the Internet was jailed Thursday for failing to pay child support.
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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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Gabe: Thanks to everyone who mailed me their Pokemon tips. Every single person who mailed me stressed the importance of EV's and proper EV training over just about everything else. I was given some great links and spent a good chuck of the day yesterday reading everything I could about them.
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A man who turned to the Internet in hopes of finding a kidney donor underwent dialysis Wednesday to prepare to receive his new organ, two days after a surgeon decided not to perform the procedure because of questions about the practice of Web matching.