Desperately Seeking a Kidney
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What you learn about people â and yourself â when you need them to donate an organ.
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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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Fifty years ago today, Boston surgeon Joseph Murray transplanted a kidney from Ronald Herrick into his identical twin, Richard. It was the first time an organ from one
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NEW YORK  - Extremely obese adults in need of a kidney transplant appear to wait longer for a donor organ than their thinner counterparts do, a study has found.
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WEDNESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging can identify an aggressive form of kidney cancer and may eliminate the need for biopsy in some patients, U.S. researchers report.
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Advances in medical science have made transplant surgery a desired treatment for some serious diseases. Unfortunately, while the number of patients needing a transplant increases, the availability of donated organs remains small.
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A Holland woman who owes the past six years of her life to a heart transplant is now awaiting a kidney transplant. Brenda Veenman, 60, was added to the University of Michigan&#39;s kidney transplant list Dec.
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The case of a Houston man who advertised for a new liver has prompted the United Network for Organ Sharing to recommend that hospitals discourage patients from soliciting organs and, if possible, to refuse to perform such transplants.
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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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DENVER -- A routine kidney transplant that was supposed to take place Monday was cancelled after the doctor who was going to perform the operation said he had &quot;ethical concerns&quot; about the procedure because the donor and recipient met on the Internet.
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Bypassing the waiting list, 58-year-old organ recipient finds donor through a commercial website
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A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, UK authorities warn.
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A Dutch TV show where patients will battle it out for a life-saving kidney donation is to go ahead despite widespread protests. By Michael Leidig.
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Two men are donating kidneys to each other's wives in a four-way surgical swap at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. It is the first time such a swap among healthy, living donors and patients with kidney failure has taken place at the hospital.
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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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The national transplant waiting list has grown to more than 87,000 because organ donations from the dead have not kept up with demand. For help, frustrated patients increasingly are turning to the living &#151; even to strangers. That worries bioethicists, surgeons and federal officials who oversee the transplant system, which is designed to treat all patients fairly.
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Hearts and kidneys: If one's diseased, better keep a close eye on the other. Surprising new research shows kidney disease somehow speeds up heart disease well before it has ravaged the kidneys. And perhaps not so surprising, doctors have finally proven that heart disease can trigger kidney destruction, too.