Organ donor system overhaul call
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Advisers recommend a radical overhaul of the UK organ donor network in a bid to double transplant numbers.
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The art and science of successfully harvesting an organ from one body to give new life to another turns 50 today. Since the first successful kidney transplant by Dr.
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The nation&#39;s organ transplant officials are scrambling to try to develop rules to guide surgeons and hospitals coping with a new twist: organ donors and recipients who find each other on the Internet.
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Everyone should be an organ donor when they die unless they have asked not to be, says the chief medical officer.
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The EU considers introducing a donor card to address a shortage of organs for transplant in member states.
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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY: Doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands says in a new medical journal article that it is ready to perform a face transplant, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.
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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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Lifesharers is trying to settle the competition for organs in a fair way: before you get one, you should be willing to give one
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People should be paid for living organ donations, argues a US surgeon in a leading medical journal.
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Healthcare experts call for more funding, better training, and changes in institutional culture.
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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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Every day, more than 15 people die in the United States while waiting for a lifesaving organ that never comes. At this very moment in New England, two babies under the age of 1 year old need livers.
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WASHINGTON - The national organ transplant network is asking hospitals to discourage patients from advertising for donors and, if possible, to refuse to perform transplants that arise from these campaigns.
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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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Far-reaching legislation to tighten the use of human tissue will come into force on 1 September.
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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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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.