Scuffle for organs sparks donor debate in Singapore
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As members of Sim Tee Hua's family sat at his bedside to pray for his recovery, they were horrified to learn that the hospital staff were about to turn off his life-support machine and use his organs for transplants.
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TORONTO - Hospital funding in Ontario has sparked a three-way fight between the health minister, the province&#39;s largest union and hospital administrators.
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Pressure is building against the widely reported gifts and other potential conflicts between drug companies and doctors.
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Presumed consent for organ donation scheme put on back burner as taskforce unveils alternative measures
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Singapore and its close informal ally  Taiwan traded barbs this week over a Taiwan referendum asking  voters about United Nations membership, with Singapore calling  the move "provocative" and "irresponsible."
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The case of a Houston man who advertised for a new liver has prompted the United Network for Organ Sharing to recommend that hospitals discourage patients from soliciting organs and, if possible, to refuse to perform such transplants.
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A well-known Singaporean doctor was in the country recently to promote the idea of using stem cells from umbilical cord blood as an alternative to bone marrow transplantation.
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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.
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China's Ministry of Health issues a statement highlighting the country's new rules on organ transplants.
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NEW YORK  - Over two years ago, the case of  a man who died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after  donating a portion of his liver to his brother gained a lot of  media attention. According to a report published this month,  fulminant gas gangrene of the stomach was the cause of death.
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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 minister who warned about birth defects among children of first cousin Asian marriages sparks anger among critics.
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Public support is growing for a system of presumed consent for organ donation, survey findings suggest.
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Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife.
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A change in the law so that anyone who dies is presumed to have agreed to donate their organs for transplant, unless they obtain a specific opt-out, was urged Tuesday by Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson.
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Shocked but not surprised seems to sum up Indian reaction to a transplant ring harvesting kidneys from laborers
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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.