Call for organ donation opt-out
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Scotland needs to move to an "opt-out" system for organ donation as soon as possible to save lives, an MSP urges.
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BEIJING, July 3 -- The Chinese government imposed new restrictions Tuesday on organ transplants for foreigners , saying Chinese citizens should get priority when organs become available.
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Everyone should be viewed as an organ donor when they die unless they request not to be, England's top doctor says.
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Public support is growing for a system of presumed consent for organ donation, survey findings suggest.
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THE number of organ transplants carried out in Scotland has dropped by almost a fifth in the past five years because of a growing shortage of suitable 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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Some blood donors are threatening to stop donating their blood after the South African National Blood Services (SANBS) revealed its policy of racially profiling donors.
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A British television channel is seeking a terminally ill volunteer to donate their body after death so it can be filmed as it decomposes.
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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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A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, the Royal College of Surgeons warns.
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A Dutch doctors' association asked its members Friday not to take part in a TV show in which a terminally ill woman is to select from among three contestants to receive one of her kidneys.
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Piergiorgio Welby is paralysed and speaks through a computer An Italian judge has rejected a request by a terminally ill man to have doctors switch off his life support machine.Comment
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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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Injecting blood or bone marrow cells into people who have just received a donated kidney can reduce the need for drugs that suppress the immune system, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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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.
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Canada and other countries should discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China to get human organs whose "donors" may have been killed so that the organs could be harvested, a team of human rights lawyers said on Wednesday.
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The British Medical Association today called for abortions to be approved by one doctor, rather than the current two.