Organ plan 'will boost donors 50%'
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Presumed consent for organ donation scheme put on back burner as taskforce unveils alternative measures
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The Prime Minister confirms plans to match donations given to England's universities.
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Katy Scivyer is living proof that transplant medicine has come a long way in the 50 years since the world&#39;s first successful human organ transplant.
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The European Union's health chief will unveil plans on Wednesday to increase organ donations and transplants amid a row over a Dutch reality TV show in which a dying woman is due to select a recipient for her kidneys.
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NEW YORK  - After children and adolescents receive an organ transplant, more than 90 percent do well at the one-year mark. Thereafter, unfortunately, the rate of loss of the grafted organ increases, investigators report.
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Researchers find that by weakening a transplant patient's immune system, then providing bone marrow from the donor, the body is more likely to accept the new organ without the need for long-term drug use.
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The European Union's health chief proposed an EU-wide organ donor card on Wednesday after a survey showed most Europeans support using such cards but only 12 percent actually carry one.
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A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, the Royal College of Surgeons warns.
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US and UK also due to announce economic support at donor conference expected to raise billions of pounds
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The head of one of the world's largest funders of biomedical research is has said that he's set to substantially increase funding.
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The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Tuesday that he is pushing for an additional $50 billion over five years for a health care program that insures millions of children.
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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 change in the law so that anyone who dies is presumed to have agreed to donate their organs for transplant, unless they obtain a specific opt-out, was urged Tuesday by Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson.
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The national transplant waiting list has grown to more than 87,000 because organ donations from the dead have not kept up with demand. For help, frustrated patients increasingly are turning to the living &#151; even to strangers. That worries bioethicists, surgeons and federal officials who oversee the transplant system, which is designed to treat all patients fairly.
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An MP is to launch a bid to get doctors to offer parents the option of storing their baby's umbilical cord blood.
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Transplanting bone marrow along with kidneys reduces the risk of organ rejection.
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China is drafting new laws to make it   easier for people to donate their organs in a country with long   transplant waiting lists, state media said on Tuesday.