Daily MailTraffic warden plasters 10 parking tickets on car parked in hospital's …Daily MailBy Damien Gayle A callous hospital car park warden stuck ten parking tickets on the windscreen of a transplant patient who was undergoing emergency surger…
LifeNews.comNo to Human Organ Farms!National Right to Life NewsA new protocol is proposed whereby after a donor family agrees to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments, premortem nephrectomy is performed in advance of end-of-life management. Since ne…
Former Orioles executive, daughter come through transplant surgeryBaltimore Sun (blog)By Meredith Cohn Lindsey Duquette and her father, former Orioles executive Jim Duquette, have come through their transplant surgeries and are recovering at Johns Hopk…
One-Year Outcomes Not Worse in Obese Kidney DonorsRenal and Urology NewsBOSTON—Researchers who examined renal outcomes in obese living kidney donors observed no increased incidence of hypertension, proteinuria, or renal dysfunction compared with non-…
Partial Nephrectomy Preferred for Some PatientsRenal and Urology NewsA new study by researchers at the University of Michigan suggests that partial nephrectomy should be the preferred treatment for patients who are candidates for it. John Schieszer rep…
LifeNews.com“Bioethics” Journal Pushes Organ Donations on Living PatientsLifeNews.comA new protocol is proposed whereby after a donor family agrees to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments, premortem nephrectomy is performed in advance of end-of…
Locals Join Intercontinental Kidney Donation ChainPatch.comDr. Christopher Marsh, chief of transplant surgery at Scripps Green, said, "I hope this example motivates more people to donate their kidney to save lives.” A San Diego man and his frien…
BioEdgeNo to Human Organ Farms!First Things (blog)A new protocol is proposed whereby after a donor family agrees to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments, premortem nephrectomy is performed in advance of end-of-life management. Since nephrectomy sho…
'New Skin Transplant Method For Vitiligo Patients'Medical News TodayNow dermatologists at Henry Ford Hospital state that skin transplant surgery is safe and effective for restoring skin pigmentation caused by the disease. The study is published…
Tumor thrombus of inferior vena cava in patients with renal cell carcinoma …7thSpace Interactive (press release)To evaluate oncological and clinical outcome in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and tumor thrombus involving inferior vena cava (…