Most back opt-out organ donation
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Public support is growing for a system of presumed consent for organ donation, survey findings suggest.
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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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A raft of proposals is being put forward in a bid to increase the number of people in Scotland who donate organs.
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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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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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Presumed consent for organ donation scheme put on back burner as taskforce unveils alternative measures
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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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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site, hospital officials said.
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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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LOS ANGELES -- In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
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Government advisers are to look at whether everyone should automatically be on the organ donor register.
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LONDON  - Doctors performed a record number of abortions in England and Wales in 2003, with almost two percent of women aged 15 to 44 choosing to end a pregnancy, according to health ministry figures published in the British press.
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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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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 &#151; a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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Authorities are finding new ways to encourage organ donation, including indirectly compensating donors and families. Charles H. Patrick, director of the Alabama Organ Center, said 11 states have passed laws
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A surprising survey of infertility patients finds that 60 percent are willing to donate their frozen embryos for stem-cell research. Science favored over adoption.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a  new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in  the United States using an organ found on a private Web site,  hospital officials said.