Shortage of organs means death sentence for thousands of people
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Every day, more than 15 people die in the United States while waiting for a lifesaving organ that never comes. At this very moment in New England, two babies under the age of 1 year old need livers.
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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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Transplant shortage means objectors should have to opt out in writing, Liam Donaldson says.
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.
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Doctors and their patients in many countries are facing increasing problems receiving lifesaving isotopes for treating a range of illnesses.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than five million Americans suffer from heart failure, a debilitating condition in which the heart fails to pump enough blood, starving the body of oxygen and leading to weakness, chest pain and, eventually, death.
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Hundreds of Indians had their kidneys removed by a team of doctors running an illegal transplant operation, supplying kidneys to rich Indians and foreigners, police officials say.
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A shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives around the globe is threatening health initiatives and could have dire political and economic consequences, public health experts said on Friday.
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China's military is reportedly harvesting organs from prison inmates, mostly Falungong practitioners, for large scale transplants including for foreign recipients, a study said.
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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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Canada and other countries should discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China to get human organs whose "donors" may have been killed so that the organs could be harvested, a team of human rights lawyers said on Wednesday.
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Everyone should be viewed as an organ donor when they die unless they request not to be, England's top doctor says.
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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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The bodies of children who die suddenly are being illegally transported hundreds of miles
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Almost 3,000 people have died in the past three years after suffering serious side-effects or allergies to their medicines, official figures show.
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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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BEIJING, July 3 -- The Chinese government imposed new restrictions on organ transplants for foreigners Tuesday, part of an effort to curtail widely reported abuses such as selling organs and, in some hospitals, catering to foreigners looking for  discount hearts, livers and kidneys.