Fifty years of kidney transplants
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Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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It took 12 surgeons, six operating rooms and five donors to pull it off, but five desperate strangers simultaneously received new organs in what hospital officials Monday described as the first-ever quintuple kidney transplant.
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Katy Scivyer is living proof that transplant medicine has come a long way in the 50 years since the world&#39;s first successful human organ transplant.
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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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In the 10 days after Welch Flippin decided to stop dialysis and began succumbing to kidney failure, the 85-year-old Texas farmer and World War II veteran had something on his mind. Something, he told his son, he just had to do. He wanted to vote.
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Oct 08  - Between 1990 and 2001, the number of people with chronic kidney failure in the US rose from 697 to 1424 cases per million population, according to a report released Thursday.
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Although willingness to donate organs has risen in recent years, major hurdles remain.
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Iphtashu Fitz writes &quot;On December 23, 1954, Richard Herrick made history by becoming the first successful recipient of a donated organ.
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QUEBEC (CP) - Quebec and Ontario will just be tinkering with organ donation rules in 2005 when what the system desperately needs is a complete overhaul, says an outspoken transplant advocate.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 5 -- The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan on Monday, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice.
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Fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph E. Murray led a team of surgeons at Boston&#39;s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital -- now Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital -- that gave Richard Herrick a second shot at life.
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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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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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A wait of even three years for a kidney transplant is worth it, according to a Canadian study presented the American Society of Nephrology in St.
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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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Â· One patient a day dies waiting for a transplant Â· BMA backs idea, but other groups voice concerns
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDayNews) -- Between 1996 and 2000, the annual number of Medicare patients who had renal artery interventional procedures, where angioplasty or a stent clears arteries connected to the kidneys, more than doubled.