Kidney donor planning to surrender in Tenn.
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Kidney donor Samuel Robert Smitty intends to turn himself in to Tennessee authorities to address an arrest warrant alleging failure to pay child support.
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over the use of organ donor body parts for research and purposes other than transplantation, and officials say they plan to revise the state's consent procedure as a result.
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It is important that potential donors know about possible complications before they make this life-saving sacrifice.
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In the 10 days after Welch Flippin decided to stop dialysis and began succumbing to kidney failure, the 85-year-old Texas farmer and World War II veteran had something on his mind. Something, he told his son, he just had to do. He wanted to vote.
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CONSTRUCTION of two new kidney dialysis units together worth BD200,000 will start at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) in January. They are being funded with money from a Kuwaiti donor, revealed
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Two men are donating kidneys to each other's wives in a four-way surgical swap at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. It is the first time such a swap among healthy, living donors and patients with kidney failure has taken place at the hospital.
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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 Denver hospital abruptly changed course on Tuesday and agreed to perform a kidney transplant that would be the first such procedure in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site.
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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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A Dutch reality show that claims to be trying to draw attention to a shortage of organ donors said Tuesday it would go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman will choose a contestant to receive one of her kidneys.
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Families will lose the right to block   their relatives' wish to donate their organs under reforms,   which come into force on Friday.
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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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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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A Holland woman who owes the past six years of her life to a heart transplant is now awaiting a kidney transplant. Brenda Veenman, 60, was added to the University of Michigan&#39;s kidney transplant list Dec.
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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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A 37-year-old woman suffering from an inoperable brain tumor wants to donate a kidney before she dies and will choose the recipient from among three contestants on Dutch national television, a TV network said Tuesday, claiming it wants to highlight a crisis in organ donations.
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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.