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NEWS ABOUT: organ donation

organ donation stories: 11 news summaries

(Newser) - A Japanese law prevents 11-year-old Hiroki Ando from receiving the heart he so desperately needs, CNN reports. Ando suffers from cardiomyopathy and will likely die—as his sister did 5 years ago—without a heart transplant. But the minimum age for organ donations in Japan is 15. "This stipulation... More »

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law • Japan • organ transplants • heart • heart transplants • organ donation • cardiomyopathy

OPINION

Live Kidney Donors Should Be Encouraged, Not Doubted

Activist seeking organ gets help from friends

Mar 27, 09 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Frances Kissling learned she needed a kidney transplant, she took a step most people in her situation never do: She asked dozens of friends and colleagues if they would be willing to donate. "I was bowled over by how people responded," the Catholic feminist activist writes for... More »

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health care • organ donor • kidney transplant • donor • organ donation • transplant list • dialysis • Frances Kissling • Anna Quindlen

 Richardson Lives on 
 Through Donated Organs 

Plus, Redgrave signs on for new film

Mar 25, 09 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Natasha Richardson’s death had the tiniest sliver of a silver lining: Her family donated her organs, the New York Post reports. “Doctors spent six hours harvesting all her organs. Some patient is going to wake up in the recovery room and start reciting Shakespeare,” said a source.... More »

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film • Robin Hood • organ donor • celebrity • death • Cate Blanchett • Ridley Scott • Russell Crowe • organ donation • Natasha Richardson • Vanessa Redgrave

1 of 4 UK Liver Transplants Go to Alcoholics

Situation sparks fury among families of victims who died waiting for transplant

Feb 15, 09 9:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Nearly one quarter of those receiving liver transplants in the UK are heavy drinkers, prompting a fiery debate over the allocation of organs to alcoholics, the Guardian reports. In the past decade, as waiting lists have lengthened, transplants for heavy drinkers have spiked 60%—a trend the mother of one... More »

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alcohol • United Kingdom • binge drinking • organ donation • liver transplants

Docs Remove Donor Kidney Through Vagina

Less-painful procedure could pave the way
to more donations

Feb 3, 09 3:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Doctors in Maryland removed a kidney from a donor through the vagina in what they believe to be the first operation of its kind, the Baltimore Examiner reports. The procedure reduced the 48-year-old donor’s pain and recovery time compared with more traditional methods. “We are all about trying... More »

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medicine • medical breakthrough • Maryland • surgery • kidney • doctor • Johns Hopkins University • organ donation

Hubby Wants Kidney Back
in Divorce

Doc wants cheating wife to return donation or pony up $1.5M

Jan 8, 09 8:40 AM CST
(Newser) - A doctor is demanding that his soon-to-be ex-wife return his donated kidney—or at least the $1.5 million he says the transplant is worth—as the pair divvy up their assets in a divorce, Newsday reports. Richard Batista says his wife jumped into bed with her physical therapist just... More »

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divorce • New York • marriage • love • kidney transplant • compensation • divorce settlement • organ donation

 Docs Detail 
 Near-Total 
 Face Transplant 



Unnamed patient now has 'face to face the world:' surgeon

Dec 17, 08 2:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Cleveland Clinic officials say the woman who underwent the most comprehensive face transplant yet exhausted conventional options before agreeing to the risky 22-hour procedure in which 80% of her face was replaced with a cadaver’s. The unnamed patient lacked a nose or palate and couldn’t eat or breathe... More »

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medical breakthrough • organ donor • face transplant • reconstructive surgery • Cleveland Clinic • organ donation

NYC Plans Organ-Recovery Ambulance

Proposal for quick harvesting raises thorny questions

May 24, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York City is planning a “rapid-organ-recovery ambulance” that would collect the bodies of victims of sudden deaths to be used for organ transplants, hoping to ease a pressing need for donors, the Washington Post reports. But the idea has sparked controversy among health and bioethics experts, concerned over... More »

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health care • New York City • organ transplants • organ donation • ambulance

 Docs Pull Off 6-Kidney Swap 

Johns Hopkins' 13-hour 'domino' session goes off without a hitch

Apr 9, 08 1:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a procedure that took 13 hours and involved more than 100 medical personnel, Johns Hopkins Hospital pulled off the US' first six-way kidney transplant, the Baltimore Sun reports. Six donors provided six patients with working organs in Saturday's so-called "domino" procedure. All 12 were listed in good condition... More »

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organ donor • transplant • hospital • Johns Hopkins University • kidney transplant • organ donation • transplant list

Tragic Bond Links Heart Donor, Recipient

Men married same woman, committed suicide 12 years apart

Apr 7, 08 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Georgia man who took his own life last week had lived 12 years after receiving a transplanted heart from a South Carolina man who also committed suicide, police said. And in a twist worthy of Edgar Allan Poe, the donor's widow had met and married the recipient, the Hilton... More »

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suicide • obituary • heart transplants • organ donor • transplant • heart failure • heart surgery • organ donation • gunshot wounds

 Transplant List Called Misleading 

1/3 of patients
on the list not eligible for surgery

Mar 22, 08 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of patients on a national list for organ transplants are actually ineligible to receive them, the Washington Post reports. One third of the 98,000 patients on the United Network for Organ Sharing list are either too sick or too healthy to get a new organ. Critics say including... More »

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organ transplants • heart transplants • kidney transplant • lung transplants • United Network for Organ Sharing • organ donation • UNOS • transplant list • liver transplants

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