The Kidney Swap: Adventures in Saving Lives
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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Most people who live with serious disability or illness, such as kidney failure, appear to adapt well and maintain a healthy outlook on life, new research reports.
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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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A nurse from Cornwall meets the man she gave her kidney to in an altruistic swap.
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A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site &#151; a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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A Cornish nurse is meeting the man she gave her kidney to in an altruistic swap.
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DENVER Oct 20, 2004 - A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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By Lindee, Susan  REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. ?+194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6.
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A man who turned to the Internet in hopes of finding a kidney donor underwent dialysis Wednesday to prepare to receive his new organ, two days after a surgeon decided not to perform the procedure because of questions about the practice of Web matching.
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Beyond her sorrow, the toughest dilemma Diane Quirley faced in the wake of her 23-year-old son Shawn&#39;s death in June 1997 was whether to donate his organs for transplant procedures.
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The first human trial of an artificial 'bio' kidney offers  hope of a working implant for patients, say experts.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. One of two infant twins who had been awaiting heart transplants in Nashville has received a donor organ. Abigail Patrick underwent four hours of surgery yesterday at Vanderbilt University&#39;s children&#39;s hospital.
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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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A long wait, even up to three years, for a kidney transplant is worth it, claims a Canadian study presented Oct. 31 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology in St.
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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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Bypassing the waiting list, 58-year-old organ recipient finds donor through a commercial website
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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.