News tagged with kidney donation
Should doctors encourage people to donate a kidney to a stranger?
With three people on the kidney transplant list dying in the UK every day, should doctors encourage their patients to put themselves at risk for the benefit of others? Two experts debate the issue in the British Medical Journal ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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African-Americans more likely to donate kidney to family member
Family matters, especially when it comes to African-Americans and living kidney donation. In a study conducted at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, researchers found that African-Americans donate almost exclusively to family ...
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Pilot transplant project aims to spur kidney swaps
(AP) -- Too often, would-be kidney donors are wasted because the friend or loved one they want to help isn't a match. Now a new national database promises to help find matches for those frustrated pairs so ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Philippines claims success on organ trafficking
The Philippines said Wednesday that efforts to stop poor people from selling their kidneys to rich and mostly foreign patients had worked.
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Clinician and patient preferences clash over information sharing before transplantation
Most kidney donors and recipients are in favor of exchanging personal health information that may influence success before scheduling a living organ donor transplant, while healthcare professionals are more reluctant, according ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Kidney donors suffer few ill effects from life-giving act, landmark study finds
In a landmark study of more than 80,000 live kidney donors from across the United States, Johns Hopkins researchers have found the procedure carries very little medical risk and that, in the long term, people who donate one ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Talking increases kidney donation
Get-togethers with a kidney disease patient's family and friends can improve their willingness to consider donation, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific ...
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Britain to outlaw most private organ transplants
(AP) -- The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Hopkins transplant surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina
In what is believed to be a first-ever procedure, surgeons at Johns Hopkins have successfully removed a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the back of the donor's vagina.
Feb 02, 2009 |
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