Web pact for kidney draws fire
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Transplant surgeons and medical ethicists are outraged by the nation&#39;s first Internet-brokered organ transplant, performed last week in Denver.
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A Dutch TV station&#39;s plan to air a  reality show during which a dying woman will choose a recipient  for her kidneys has triggered condemnation in Europe.
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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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What do you think of the Medicare drug discount-card program? (Check all that apply.). I&#39;m eligible but I don&#39;t use it. Biopsy results confirm a young Dublin man has contracted the human form of mad cow disease.
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ST. LOUIS -- The nation&#39;s third-largest operator of kidney-dialysis clinics has agreed to pay the government $350 million to settle allegations it defrauded Medicare.
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When folks in the health-care field start crapping all over a major data collection institute such as the Canadian Institute for Health Information, you know that they&#39;re a little on the defensive.
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A television show in which a woman would donate a kidney to a contestants was revealed as a hoax Friday. Presenters said they were trying to pressure the government into reforming organ donation laws.
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After 33 years of marriage, Ellie and Dan Tomczak have developed a nice symmetry. Five years ago, she received a donated kidney that saved her life, and three years later, he gave up one of his to save someone else&#39;s.
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By Hazel Davis  There are a few among us who would balk at the idea of using a company that exists entirely online. We have enough problems dealing with those based outside the UK, let alone floating around in cyberspace.
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South-of-the-border street hawkers advertise suspicious kidney therapy. Part of Wired News' ongoing open-source investigation to out world quackery. In Bodyhack.
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In a post on its Web site, Google said that the proposed deal could pose threats to âinnovation and opennessâ on the Internet.
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A man who donated a kidney to a Colorado man he met through a Web site says he should be considered "a hero," and insists his past &#151; including more than &#36;8,000 in overdue child support payments &#151; has nothing to do with his decision to help.
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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.
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Following health advice given on the Internet could leave people in worse health, a new study has warned. The research from University College London (UCL) has shown that many people would be in a better state
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Doctors have put aside ethical concerns to carry out a kidney transplant between two men who met online. A hospital in Denver originally postponed the operation amid worries that the recipient might have paid the donor for his organ.
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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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.