Desperately Seeking a Kidney
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What you learn about people â and yourself â when you need them to donate an organ.
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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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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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Even though patients are waiting longer for a kidney transplant, those who do get one live longer than those who remain on dialysis, according to data presented last
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A Colorado man who placed a &quot;transplant wanted&quot; ad on a Massachusetts-based Internet site is expected today to receive a kidney donated by a total stranger who simply wanted to do &quot;something big.&quot; The transaction marks the first time an organ transplant has been brokered by a commercial web company.
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SEATTLE - A human kidney stolen from an exhibit of preserved bodies and organs was recovered after two months, thanks to an anonymous tip, police said.
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WASHINGTON -- Why is the subject of giving such a difficult thing to discuss? Some folks would rather ask someone for a kidney than for a donation to a charitable cause.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - 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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A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, UK authorities warn.
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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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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  - People with failing kidneys may frequently use "natural" or homeopathic products and over-the-counter medications that could worsen their kidney function, a new study shows. And these products are sometimes recommended by their physician or pharmacist.
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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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The ruling party candidate for Nigeria's crucial presidential elections is undergoing medical consultations related to a kidney ailment, party officials said Tuesday.
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Very obese people who need a kidney transplant are far less likely to get one than normal weight people, and when they do, their wait is an average of a year to 18 months longer, a new study found.
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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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In a country like the United States, one of the human body's most urgent needs is taken for granted. It comes easily out of our faucets, and gallon jugs of it cost less than a dollar.