Donate Organs, Save Money
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Do the right thing -- for humanity and your heirs' wallets.
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.
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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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You can donate without giving dollars and cents.
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Description: On Dec. 23, 1954, Boston doctors gave a kidney to a 23-year-old man in the first successful long-term transplant of a human organ.
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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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Britain said Wednesday that a series of procedural changes at hospitals could boost the rate of organ donation by 50 percent within five years. That would mean an extra 1,200 transplants a year, potentially saving thousands of lives.
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DENVER -- A Colorado man underwent a kidney transplant Wednesday in what is believed to be the first such operation involving an organ obtained through a for-profit Web site -- a transaction that has raised legal and ethical questions.
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Transplanting bone marrow along with kidneys reduces the risk of organ rejection.
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What if governments and insurance companies nip the incentive for the dangerous illegal organ trade by paying donors with free healthcare or cash? Plus: Indian Organ Mafia Busted In Bodyhack.
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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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When Dr. Robert Wachter&#39;s wife underwent surgery in October to donate a kidney to a friend, her chief anxiety, he said, was &quot;the possibility that she might be killed by a medical mistake.
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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.
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Many heart surgeons insist on using fresh, recently donated whole blood when performing open heart surgery on infants, hoping to reduce the risk of complications from the procedure.
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VANCOUVER -- Two British Columbia residents each gave up a kidney to save strangers, becoming the first living people in Canada to anonymously become organ donors.
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Egg and sperm donors could be paid thousands of pounds in expenses under plans being considered.