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12-Year-Old Asks For a Kidney for Christmas
13newsnow.com Dr. Brannigan, with Columbia Nephrology, says 17,000 kidney transplants are performed in a year in the United States, with 11,000 transplants coming from deceased donors. Howeve, Dr. Brannigan says living donations are on the rise. “People who decide … |
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From Transplant Lab Worker to Donor, Alabama Man Becomes Part of UAB’s World-Record Kidney Chain
Newswise (press release) “If there are no anti-HLA antibodies, those are the ones who are the best patient and donor combination. That goes for everything — deceased donors or renal, heart and lung, and for living donors. We make lots of interpretations. The results we … |
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12-Year-Old Asks For a Kidney for Christmas
WLTX.com Dr. Brannigan, with Columbia Nephrology, says 17,000 kidney transplants are performed in a year in the United States, with 11,000 transplants coming from deceased donors. Howeve, Dr. Brannigan says living donations are on the rise. “People who decide … |
The HinduPledging to save a life – The HinduThe HinduMUMBAI: A Navi Mumbai septuagenarian, Parvati Bhagat celebrated her 71st birthday in a unique manner on Tuesday with 13 members of her family signing up …and more »
ConsumerAffairsStudy suggests loosening the age limits on kidney donorsConsumerAffairsPatients receiving a transplanted kidney may receive one from a deceased donor or from a family member, since it is possible to survive with a single kidney. The Nati…
The Rio TimesIrregularities in 41 Percent of Campaign Donations in BrazilThe Rio TimesAccording to government officials, among the types of irregularities identified were donors with no economic capacity to donate declared values, donations made in the…
Older Donor Kidneys Viable for Organ DonationRenal and Urology NewsLuigi Biancone, MD, of the University of Turin in Italy, and colleagues analyzed results of deceased donor kidney transplants performed at the Turin University Renal Transplant Center b…
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ECMC performing record number of kidney transplants
Buffalo News ECMC does significantly more kidney transplants from deceased donors than living donors — 98 deceased and 11 living donors in 2016 for kidneys, for example. That compares with a national ratio as of Nov. 30 of 12,245 deceased donors to 5,087 living … Organ donations: Kidneys from elderly deceased individuals can function for years after transplantationOutbreak News Today 2017 Rose Parade Participants Will Be “Teammates in Life” Aboard the 14th Annual Donate Life Rose Parade® FloatBusiness Wire (press release) |
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Death, extortion and hope: 1 man’s fight for a new liver – Toronto …
CBC.ca In Ontario, someone dies every three days while waiting for an organ transplant. About 220 people are waiting for a new liver and Arch Walsh of Mississauga is … |
Yale study: Doctors to transplant kidneys from HIV-positive donors to …Middletown PressNEW HAVEN >> HIV-positive patients with end-stage kidney disease will have a better chance of receiving a transplant because of a study involving the Yale&nb…