Celebrating 50 Years of Organ Transplantation
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Fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph E. Murray led a team of surgeons at Boston&#39;s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital -- now Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital -- that gave Richard Herrick a second shot at life.
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NEW YORK  - After children and adolescents receive an organ transplant, more than 90 percent do well at the one-year mark. Thereafter, unfortunately, the rate of loss of the grafted organ increases, investigators report.
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CLEVELAND -- A person severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using tissues from an organ donor.
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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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Public support grows in Scotland for a radical change to organ donation, the British Medical Association says.
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Iphtashu Fitz writes &quot;On December 23, 1954, Richard Herrick made history by becoming the first successful recipient of a donated organ.
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The families of donors and recipients are brought together by Spain's system for organ donation.
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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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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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LOS ANGELES -- 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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German physicians have pioneered a way to create and transplant bone grafts from one part of a patient&#39;s body to another. The work of Patrick H. Warnke and associates at the University of Kiel is summarized
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A wait of even three years for a kidney transplant is worth it, according to a Canadian study presented the American Society of Nephrology in St.
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Transplanting bone marrow along with kidneys reduces the risk of organ rejection.
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An American scientific study shows that artificial hearts can keep heart-transplant candidates alive before the donor organ is available and it also helps prolong their life after transplant.
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An 8-month-old boy received five organs in a complex transplant for a rare gastrointestinal disease and is ready for the next step &#151; learning to eat, his doctors said Friday.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - 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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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.