Nurse meets kidney recipient
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A nurse from Cornwall meets the man she gave her kidney to in an altruistic swap.
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Very obese people who need a kidney transplant are far less likely to get one than normal weight people, and when they do, their wait is an average of a year to 18 months longer, a new study found.
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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Beyond her sorrow, the toughest dilemma Diane Quirley faced in the wake of her 23-year-old son Shawn&#39;s death in June 1997 was whether to donate his organs for transplant procedures.
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As the world&#39;s first successful kidney transplant celebrates its 50th birthday, medical organisations are warning there is a critical shortage of donors.
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Bypassing the waiting list, 58-year-old organ recipient finds donor through a commercial website
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An Australian teenage girl has become the world's first known transplant patient to change blood groups and take on the immune system of her organ donor, doctors said on Friday, calling her a "one-in-six-billion miracle."
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The love in his eyes is almost tangible as kidney donor Jeffrey Molaolwa relaxes in his 10-year-old daughter Patience&#39;s ward in Red Cross Children&#39;s Hospital.
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It is seven weeks since the former All Blacks wing, who has suffered from the rare kidney disorder nephrotic syndrome for the last 10 years, underwent a kidney transplant but he has been seen working out at a gym in Auckland and has told friends he would
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WINNIPEG (CP) - An intensive care nurse working on the night an 83-year-old patient died of a potassium overdose told an inquest Tuesday she didn&#39;t immediately suspect a medical error.
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(LUMBER BRIDGE, North Carolina)-- About 3,000 North Carolinians are on the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant. More than half of those are in need of a kidney.
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A Denver hospital abruptly changed course on Tuesday and agreed to perform a kidney transplant that would be the first such procedure in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site.
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After 33 years of marriage, Ellie and Dan Tomczak have developed a nice symmetry. Five years ago, she received a donated kidney that saved her life, and three years later, he gave up one of his to save someone else&#39;s.
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A 16-year-old leukaemia patient foregoes further treatment so she can enjoy what is left of her life.
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An Australian teenage girl has become  the world's first known transplant patient to change blood  groups and take on the immune system of her organ donor,  doctors said on Friday, calling her a "one-in-six-billion  miracle."
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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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Even though patients are waiting longer for a kidney transplant, those who do get one live longer than those who remain on dialysis, according to data presented last