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transplant list stories: 3 news summaries
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

 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

 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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