Call for organ donation by default
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Â· One patient a day dies waiting for a transplant Â· BMA backs idea, but other groups voice concerns
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Everyone should be an organ donor when they die unless they have asked not to be, the chief medical officer says.
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Gordon Brown says he believes everyone should be automatically placed on the organ donor register.
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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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New laws on the storage of human organs in most of Britain will come into effect Friday, eliminating families' automatic right to stop doctors removing organs for transplant or research from a deceased relative.
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Government advisers are to look at whether everyone should automatically be on the organ donor register.
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Washington - The national organ transplant network is asking hospitals to discourage patients from advertising for donors and, if possible, to refuse to perform transplants that arise from these campaigns.
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VANCOUVER -- Two British Columbia residents each gave up a kidney to save strangers, becoming the first living people in Canada to anonymously become organ donors.
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Give your donors what they need while following your own rules.
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Lifesharers is trying to settle the competition for organs in a fair way: before you get one, you should be willing to give one
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Description: On Dec. 23, 1954, Boston doctors gave a kidney to a 23-year-old man in the first successful long-term transplant of a human organ.
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Advisers recommend a radical overhaul of the UK organ donor network in a bid to double transplant numbers.
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Public support grows in Scotland for a radical change to organ donation, the British Medical Association says.
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China issued guidelines Tuesday restricting organ transplants for foreigners, giving priority to Chinese patients in the government's latest effort to regulate procedures that have been criticized as profit-driven and unethical.
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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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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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A 37-year-old woman suffering from an inoperable brain tumor wants to donate a kidney before she dies and will choose the recipient from among three contestants on Dutch national television, a TV network said Tuesday, claiming it wants to highlight a crisis in organ donations.