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  • July 2008

    • Racial 'Transplant Gap' Persists

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Jul 8, 08 12:46 PM CDT

      Racial 'Transplant Gap' Persists

      Financial struggles and difficulty finding donors—as well as an unclear “transplant gap”—make African Americans less likely to get kidney transplants than whites, the Chicago Tribune reports. Many remain on dialysis, making daily life harder and increasing the risk of death. “You can explain most of the discrepancy, but you still have a gap that you can't explain,” says a doctor. More »

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      health care  • organ donor  • blacks  • kidney transplant  • kidney  • dialysis

  • April 2008
  • February 2008

    • Case Against Transplant Doc Raises Concern

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 27, 08 11:11 AM CST

      Case Against Transplant Doc Raises Concern

      Charges against a California surgeon for hastening the death of a disabled man so his organs could be harvested for transplants has advocates worried, the New York Times reports. At issue is whether Dr. Hootan Roozrokh ignored protocol in pursuit of organs for transplant or if he misused, or misunderstood, a less-often-used harvesting technique. More »

  • January 2008

    • UK Pushes 'Opt-Out' Organ Donor Plan

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jan 13, 08 7:46 PM CST

      UK Pushes 'Opt-Out' Organ Donor Plan

      UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is backing an initiative to let hospitals harvest organs from dead patients without their consent, the Telegraph reports. The plan, which could take effect this year, presumes consent unless patients opt out or family members object. The goal is to help the 1,000 Britons who die every year for lack of an available organ. More »

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      health  • Great Britain  • United Kingdom  • Gordon Brown  • organ transplants  • organ donor

  • November 2007

    • Organ Donor Gives HIV to 4 Chicago Patients

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Nov 13, 07 1:07 PM CST

      Organ Donor Gives HIV to 4 Chicago Patients

      A flaw in HIV testing procedures led to the infection of four organ-transplant recipients in Chicago, the Tribune reports, the first such cases in more than 20 years. Follow-up tests were never performed, so the four are only now discovering their infections from the January transplants. The donor was flagged as high risk, but doctors decided the patients' need for organs outweighed HIV fears. More »

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      public health  • HIV  • organ transplants  • organ donor

  • October 2007

    • Kidney Swap Might Abate Organ Shortage

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Oct 15, 07 1:28 PM CDT

      Kidney Swap Might Abate Organ Shortage

      One woman desperately needs a kidney transplant; her husband wants to donate but is incompatible. Across the country, the same scenario. But the healthy spouses match the unhealthy spouse in the other couple and make a reciprocated donation to a stranger. About 230 such swaps have taken place since 2000, reports the Journal, and there's hope that the practice might ease organ shortages. More »

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      medicine  • organ donor  • kidney transplant  • waiting list

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  • April 2007

    • Docs Accused Of Hurrying Death To Harvest Organs

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 12, 07 11:24 AM CDT

      A 47-year-old man was wrongly declared brain dead by two doctors apparently eager to harvest his organs, reports the LA Times . "They were waiting like vultures, so they could scoop them up," says the patient’s daughter, Melanie Sanchez. A third doctor determined that her father, who had suffered a catastrophic brain hemorrhage, was not dead. More »

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      health  • science  • doctor  • hospitals  • organ donor  • patients  • organ harvesting  • transplant  • organs

    • States Rewrite Organ-Donation Laws

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 4, 07 11:26 AM CDT

      States Rewrite Organ-Donation Laws

      Doctors will be able to take organs from potential donors in more sticky situations, under revisions to state laws on the boards in more than 24 states. Model legislation that's already passed in four states clarifies how to handle ethically complex decisions, helping to alleviate the chronic shortage of kidneys and other organs, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      health  • law  • organ donor  • patient  • state governments  • will  • organ harvesting

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