Man Undergoes Web-Arranged Transplant
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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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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a  new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in  the United States using an organ found on a private Web site,  hospital officials said.
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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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British doctors believe they have cured a boy of a rare disorder by transplanting cells from his baby brother.
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The technology for human facial transplants exists, but ethicists are worried about using it.
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Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.
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After a long fight with a degenerative disease, Ruben Navarro appeared close to death. So the hospital caring for him alerted the local transplant network, which rushed a team to the medical center to try to salvage the 25-year-old's organs.
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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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A man who donated a kidney to someone he met over the Internet was jailed Thursday for failing to pay child support.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site, hospital officials said.
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Denver, CO. - A hospital decides to do kidney donor surgery for Matchingdonors.com after turning them away on Monday. Now a historic kidney transplant is underway at a Denver, Colorado, hospital.
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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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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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A remarkable operation to replace the skin and hair of a five-year-old burns victim is said to have gone very well.
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Donor hearts could make good scaffolding for new organs.
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A man whose lung-transplant operation was aborted after the plane carrying the organs crashed into Lake Michigan this week is recovering after receiving lungs from another donor.
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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.