Organ Transplants

Is it Probable that People Anywhere in the World are Kidnapped Solely for the Purpose of Involuntary Organ Donation?

Quora | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Legends, Urban Myths, Legend, Organ Transplant, Crime, Organized Crime, Organ Transplants, Urban Myth, Urban Legends, Myths, Kidnappings, Kidnapping, Kidnapped, Weird News News
Quora

Kidney theft is a venerable urban legend. The origins of urban legends are notoriously difficult to identify but in the case of kidney (or other organ) theft, the rumors seem to have preceded the real-life cases by some years.

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Kidney Donation: How Do You Match Up?

Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Kidney Donation, Kidney Transplant, Personal Health, Kidneys, Organ Donation, Kidney Disease, Living Donation, Kidney Donor, Organ Transplants, Organ Donors, Healthy Living News
Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP

April is National Donate Life Month, and if you're thinking about donating a kidney, now would be the time to find out what it's all about. Did you ever wonder how they match potential organ donors with people who need organs?

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WATCH: 'Oops' Doesn't Cut It, Medics Drop Donor Heart

Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Cultura, Video, Heart Transplant, Medics Drop Heart, Organ Transplants, Mexico City Medics, Mexico, Slidepollajax, Heart Donors, Dropped Heart, Latino Voices News

Mexican paramedics found themselves as the targets of intense criticism after video surfaced of them dropping a donor heart as they rushed to a hospit...

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Rebuilding Bodies

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Full Face Transplant, Healthy Living Body, Hand Transplant, Double-Hand Transplant, Organ Transplants, Slidepollajax, Pedro Cavadas, Face Transplants, Double-Leg Transplant, Healthy Living News

Last Sunday, July 10th, Dr. Pedro Cavadas made headlines after performing the world’s first double-leg transplant. By all accounts, it was a histori...

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Lucas Kavner

After Two Organ Transplants, Cancer Diagnosis, One Girl Gives Back

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Child Transplants, University of Maryland, Ola Ojewumi, Transplants, Donor Registration, Organ Transplants, Mtvu, Greatest Person of the Day, Good News, Sacred Heart, Impact News

Odunola “Ola” Ojewumi, quite possibly the most optimistic college junior in America, was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart defec...

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Chinese Organ Donor Plan Causes Controversy

Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Organ Donations, Driver's License, China, China Organ Donor Plan, Organ Transplants, World News

China's plan to tackle the nation's organ transplant demands by encouraging new drivers to become donors is getting mixed reviews. As Reuters is r...

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Pope Champions Organ Transplants -- But Is No Longer Donor

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pope Benedict XVI, Organ Transplants, Organ Donors, Vatican, Rome, Pope Benedict, Catholic Church, Organ Donation, Pope Organ Donor, Pope Organ Transplants, Pope, World News

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has long championed organ transplants, but don't expect an organ donation from him. The Vatican says his body b...

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How to Be a Hero in One Easy Step

Cari Shane | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Donatelife, Organ Donation Registry, Transplants, Organ Donation, Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, Organ Transplants, Washington Regional Transplant Community, April, Department of Motor Vehicles, Organ Donors, Tissue Transplants, Organ Donation Awareness Month, Healthy Living News
Cari Shane

18 people die every day, due to the lack of organs available for transplant. Every 11 minutes, a new name is added to the national list. Making one's organs available postmortem just makes sense.

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As Repo Men, Jude Law and Forest Whitaker Go For Your Guts

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reposession, Forest Whitaker, Jude Law, Artifical Organs, Sci-Fi, Repo Men, Organ Transplants, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

For veteran actors Forest Whitaker and Jude Law, this demented buddy movie, Repo Men, pulls on both their inner action heroes and tragic Shakespearean personae.

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Oregon hospitals denying life saving organ transplants to legal medical marijuana patients

Russ Belville | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Legacy Hospital, Portland, Ohsu, Jim Klahr, Organ Transplants, Legacy, Oregon, Transplant, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland Tribune, Tim Garon, Healthy Living News
Russ Belville

I will be covering this subject with medical experts on transplant and medical marijuana and attorneys who are pursuing remedies for medical marijuana...

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Illinois Family Travels The Country For Organ Donations

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organ Donations, Organ Donors, Sheri Greiner, Organ Transplant, Mike Greiner, Greiner Family, National Donate Life Month, Best Places in the USA, Organ Transplants, Impact News

Since before their two children were born, Mike and Sheri Greiner have always dreamed of traveling the country and visiting each of the nation's 50 st...

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Tadamasa Goto's Liver Transplant Profiled: How Yakuza Boss Got New Liver At UCLA (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tadamasa, Lara Logan, Ucla Ethics, UCLA Medical Center, Crime, Organ Donation, Ucla, Organ Transplants, Ucla Medical Center Ethics, Fbi, Goto, Tokyo, 60 Minutes, Yakuza Liver Transplants, John Gotti, Mob, Yakuza, Japan, Health Care, Tadamasa Goto, World News

On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Betw...

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What My Late Husband's Organ Transplant Taught Me About the Health Industry

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Organ Transplant, Health Care, Organ Trafficking, Organ Transplants, Healthy Living News
Deborah Calla

We must have health reform in this country, otherwise even the people who have PPOs may find themselves needing coverage that their policies don't offer. No one should suffer or die because of money.

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China Daily Paper: Executed Prisoners Currently Provide Two-Thirds Of All Transplant Organs

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death Row Organ Use, Death Row, China, Organ Transplants, World News

According to the China Daily newspaper, executed prisoners currently provide two-thirds of all transplant organs. The government is now launching a...

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State Media: China Organ Transplants Come From Death Row

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Medicine, Organ Transplants, Health Care, Chinese Organ Transplants, China Health Care, China, Prisons, Death Row, World News

BEIJING — China has launched a national organ donation system to try to reduce its dependence on body parts harvested from executed prisoners, w...

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Egypt's Poor Sell Their Organs For A Steep Price

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Egyptian Organ Trade, Organ Trade, Organ Transplant, Organ Transplants, World Health Organization, World Health, Black Market, World News

CAIRO — The poverty of Cairo's slums forced a young couple to sell nearly everything they had. When that wasn't enough, each of them sold a kidn...

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