Living organ donors risk lives to save others
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While other teenagers were celebrating their high-school graduation, 18-year-old James Chan was in hospital donating most of his liver to his father.
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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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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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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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EDMONTON (CP) - A woman from Edmonton has become only the third person in Canada to successfully undergo a lung transplant from two living donors.
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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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NASHVILLE, Tenn. One of two infant twins who had been awaiting heart transplants in Nashville has received a donor organ. Abigail Patrick underwent four hours of surgery yesterday at Vanderbilt University&#39;s children&#39;s hospital.
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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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Scientists say they have found a safe way to give carbon monoxide to help organ transplant patients.
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A raft of proposals is being put forward in a bid to increase the number of people in Scotland who donate organs.
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Presumed consent for organ donation scheme put on back burner as taskforce unveils alternative measures
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The Canadian Institute for Health Information says a shortage of donor organs means Canadians are dying while waiting for new hearts.
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Transplant surgeons and medical ethicists are outraged by the nation&#39;s first Internet-brokered organ transplant, performed last week in Denver.
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Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life.
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Doctors and patients have overcome huge medical hurdles in liver transplantation, but they still face an ethical abyss, created largely by organ shortages.
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The nation&#39;s organ transplant officials are scrambling to try to develop rules to guide surgeons and hospitals coping with a new twist: organ donors and recipients who find each other on the Internet.
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Researchers find that by weakening a transplant patient's immune system, then providing bone marrow from the donor, the body is more likely to accept the new organ without the need for long-term drug use.