Visa row patient secures dialysis
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A terminally-ill woman removed from the UK after her visa expired is to start hospital treatment in Ghana.
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Fresenius Medical Care, the world's leading supplier of dialysis products and services, said that it had been subpoenaed by the US Justice Deparment in New York to provide a &quot;broad range of documents&quot; relating to its operations.
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A patient in a vegetative state can communicate using her thoughts, according to research.
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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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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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Doctors have successfully transplanted insulin-producing cells from a mother to her diabetic daughter.
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Surgeons completed a kidney transplant Wednesday in what is believed to be the first operation where the donor and recipient met through a commercial Web site.
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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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A former employee of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance pleaded guilty yesterday to running up credit-card bills using the identity of a patient, the first conviction under a 2003 federal law protecting patient privacy, according to the US Attorney&#39;s Office
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Doctors are following the playbook in treating Buffalo Bills football player Kevin Everett's severe spinal cord injury except in one notable regard: pumping icy cold saline into his veins to try to prevent further damage
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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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A body part allegedly stolen in the US has been implanted in a patient in the UK, a hospital confirms.
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DENVER Bob Hickey is making history on the operating table today -- becoming the first patient who obtained an organ via a for-profit Web site.
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PHILADELPHIA Oct. 6, 2004 - A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that people with kidney failure that&#39;s severe enough to require dialysis deserve some of the workplace protections offered by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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NEW YORK - A well-wisher from Chicago hoped he would have a speedy recovery. An admirer who had just read his autobiography felt it was like having a friend in the hospital...
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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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In the past few months, Sarasota resident Mary Pierson has taken some of the most important tests of her life. Tests that determined she was a possible match for her husband, Mark, who needs a kidney transplant.