The nonprofit in charge of distributing organs wants to revamp the system for distributing kidneys for the first time in 25 years. But some transplant specialists and bioethicists fear the changes could end up discriminating against some patients.
Thousands of people die every year waiting for a kidney transplant – yet government data shows over each of the past five years, more than 2,600 kidneys recovered from deceased donors were discarded without being transplanted.
The Chinese regime recently publicized the arrest of a ring involved in paying for kidneys and then profiting by transplanting the purchased kidneys. By doing this, the regime […]
There are 93,000 people on the U.S. kidney transplant list. Last year, more than 4,700 died waiting.
Lisa Keck, the 49-year-old Darmstadt, Ind., woman needing a kidney transplant, thought it would be a done deal with her cousin, Becky Reeser, a schoolteacher in the Phoenix, Ariz., area, as a potential donor candidate.
Gilmer, Texas, Sept. 18, 2012 – Cortney Reid, 19, has endured health problems her entire life. As a baby, she was diagnosed with focal sclerosing glomerulosclerosis, which caused scar tissue to build up in her kidneys.
DPC Urges Swift Passage of Bill to Extend Drug Coverage for Transplant PatientsWASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Data from a recent survey of Dialysis Patient Citizens' (DPC) kidney disease patient membership highlights the stro…
New Jersey’s busiest kidney transplant program, located at Barnabas Health in Essex County, has opened a satellite office in Bergen County at the same time that the transplant program at Hackensack University Medical Center remains suspended.
A NATIONAL organisation is working with a North-East hospital in a bid to help patients who need a new kidney have their transplant as quickly as possible.
The home secretary is to decide whether to deport a kidney transplant patient whose life depends on anti-rejection drugs despite claims that deportation would mean certain death. Fatima Manji reports.