Calls grow for organ transplant revolution
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Â· Medical chief urges new donor schemeÂ· Observer launches reform campaign
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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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An American scientific study shows that artificial hearts can keep heart-transplant candidates alive before the donor organ is available and it also helps prolong their life after transplant.
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If the government gets its way, more than a million patients will be operated on by surgeons from the private rather than public health sector.
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Doctors and patients have overcome huge medical hurdles in liver transplantation, but they still face an ethical abyss, created largely by organ shortages.
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Kidneys from young donors should be matched to young recipients to extend the life of kidney transplants, says a study presented Oct. 31 at the the American Society of Nephrology annual meeting in St.
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Doctors at what was then known as Peter Bent Brigham Hospital performed the world&#39;s first successful organ transplant. Ronald Herrick -- then 23 and a resident of Northboro -- donated one of his kidneys to
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Science & environment: Objective of growing replacement organs for humans has been brought a step closer
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A Sicilian entrepreneur has offered to donate parts of his body for organ transplants in an effort to keep his business alive.
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Britain said Wednesday that a series of procedural changes at hospitals could boost the rate of organ donation by 50 percent within five years. That would mean an extra 1,200 transplants a year, potentially saving thousands of lives.
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Scientists may be a step closer to transplanting a kidney without the need for long-term medication.
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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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German physicians have pioneered a way to create and transplant bone grafts from one part of a patient&#39;s body to another. The work of Patrick H. Warnke and associates at the University of Kiel is summarized
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An independent inquiry is ordered after an increase in the number of deaths after heart transplants.
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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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China is drafting new laws to make it   easier for people to donate their organs in a country with long   transplant waiting lists, state media said on Tuesday.
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The Conservatives ask Gordon Brown to explain his "apparent U-turn" on the organ donor system.