Celebrating 50 Years of Organ Transplantation
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HealthDayNews -- Fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph E. Murray led a team of surgeons at Boston&#39;s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital -- now Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital -- that gave Richard Herrick a second shot at life.
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BELGRADE, Maine - Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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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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Fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph E. Murray led a team of surgeons at Boston&#39;s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital -- now Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital -- that gave Richard Herrick a second shot at life.
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Transplanting pig organs into humans may be much safer than previously thought, a study suggests.
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After her death, Maxine Watson saved at least two lives, having arranged for her organs to be donated to those who needed them most.
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TORONTO (CP) - More heart-transplant patients are surviving longer than 10 years ago, but a shortfall in the number of donor organs means Canadians continue to die while awaiting a new heart, a report released Wednesday shows.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a  new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in  the United States using an organ found on a private Web site,  hospital officials said.
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By Sukup, Charles E  We can take considerable pride that as agricultural and biological engineers we have improved the quality of life that people enjoy around the world. It was 100 years ago on Dec.
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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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Two years ago, Andrew Smith received a heart transplant at UCLA Medical Center. Today, the 46-year-old is healthy once again, training to compete in a triathlon -- thanks to the
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While fatal in adults, organ transplants from donors with different blood types work in children under 2. The trick? Taking advantage of children's underdeveloped immune systems. By the Associated Press.
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Public support grows in Scotland for a radical change to organ donation, the British Medical Association says.
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Authorities are finding new ways to encourage organ donation, including indirectly compensating donors and families. Charles H. Patrick, director of the Alabama Organ Center, said 11 states have passed laws
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Forty-two years ago open-heart surgery was a terrifying operation, though I hasten to add that itâs not exactly trivial today.
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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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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.