Heart transplants halted in Scotland
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Operations suspended after rise in number of deaths, NHS management says
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Building an artificial heart has proved tougher than landing men on the moon, but a new study shows that a heart once considered a flop can prolong the lives of desperately sick patients until a donor heart is found.
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NEW YORK  - Patients who undergo heart transplant surgery in hospitals that perform 14 or more procedures each year achieve better outcomes than patients who undergo this procedure at hospitals that perform fewer heart transplants.
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Seriously ill heart failure patients   expected to live only a month and ineligible for transplant can   get an implant of a permanent artificial heart, U.S. health   officials ruled on Tuesday.
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The majority of deaths of newborn babies in Scotland could not have been avoided, a study finds.
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Clinicians claim that a new approach to tackling heart disease could save thousands of lives in Scotland.
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An implantable mesh bag meant to support the blood-pumping muscle of patients with heart failure shouldn't be approved, federal health advisers said Friday in upholding an earlier government decision.
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A medical aid group says they can't handle any more tsunami donations. Zurich, Switzerland -- People who want to give money to the tsunami relief effort should skip over the aid group Doctors Without Borders.
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Proposals to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been overthrown.
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Scottish children who undergo heart operations are 'more likely' to die than in the rest of the UK, figures show.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday signalled his backing for an "opt-out" system for organ donation to help thousands of patients waiting for life-saving transplants.
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ATLANTA Doctors have halted a study on children with sickle cell anemia because two of the young patients have suffered strokes. The study was designed to determine whether children with the disease could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy.
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A measure that forbids cloning human embryos but allows scientists to extract stem cells from unwanted embryos for medical research is approved by Swiss voters. The restrictive legislation is similar to that of the Netherlands and Spain.
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Markets and exhibitions involving livestock, banned in Britain since an outbreak of the foot and mouth virus on August 3, will be allowed to resume from Monday, the agriculture ministry said.
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Jennifer Sutton's heart almost killed her. On Tuesday she got her first look at the culprit. Three months after the defective organ was cut from her body, the 23-year-old transplant patient came to contemplate a mass of pink and yellow tissue suspended in a transparent container at a medical museum in London.
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DENVER -- A routine kidney transplant that was supposed to take place Monday was cancelled after the doctor who was going to perform the operation said he had &quot;ethical concerns&quot; about the procedure because the donor and recipient met on the Internet.
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BEIJING, July 3 -- The Chinese government imposed new restrictions on organ transplants for foreigners Tuesday, part of an effort to curtail widely reported abuses such as selling organs and, in some hospitals, catering to foreigners looking for  discount hearts, livers and kidneys.