Everyone 'should donate organs'
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Everyone should be viewed as an organ donor when they die unless they request not to be, England's top doctor says.
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Government advisers are to look at whether everyone should automatically be on the organ donor register.
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An American scientific study shows that artificial hearts can keep heart-transplant candidates alive before the donor organ is available and it also helps prolong their life after transplant.
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Britain said Wednesday that a series of procedural changes at hospitals could boost the rate of organ donation by 50 percent within five years.
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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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A teenage girl who has four kidneys is hoping to be able to donate two of them to patients in need of a transplant
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Give your donors what they need while following your own rules.
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Bereaved relatives are willing to donate tissue despite the organ retention scandals, a Scottish research centre has found.
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A raft of proposals is being put forward in a bid to increase the number of people in Scotland who donate organs.
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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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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.
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The Conservatives ask Gordon Brown to explain his "apparent U-turn" on the organ donor system.
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LOS ANGELES -- In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
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Make sure your donation does what you want.
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Over the last five decades, surgeons have learned how to transplant virtually every vital organ in the human body.
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Today more than 5,500 people in the UK are waiting for an organ transplant that could save or dramatically improve their life. Most are waiting for a kidney, others for a heart, lung or liver transplant.
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Public support grows in Scotland for a radical change to organ donation, the British Medical Association says.