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Organ Transplants

China Struggles With Taboo Against Organ Donation

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.17.2013 | World

BEIJING -- China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country's transplant system said Friday...

Sean's Gift: Finding Hope In Unexpected Ways After the Loss of My Son

Marie LaPersonerie | Posted 05.14.2013 | Good News
Marie LaPersonerie

Nothing can prepare you for the loss of a child, which is why I never would have guessed that allowing my son's organs to be donated, and thus, letting him live on through the lives of total strangers, would provide the comfort to get through my toughest days.

Good News About Organ Transplantation and Kidney Disease

Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP | Posted 05.02.2013 | Healthy Living
Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP

Researchers created an artificial rat kidney in the laboratory that was then transplanted into another rat and ultimately produced urine -- a huge advance in the field of bioengineering.

Adorable Baby Marks MAJOR Medical Miracle

AP | SUZETTE LABOY | Posted 05.13.2013 | Miami

MIAMI -- A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby g...

Plastic Surgeons: Pioneers in Transplantation

Michael Yaremchuk, M.D. | Posted 03.27.2013 | Healthy Living
Michael Yaremchuk, M.D.

Plastic surgery is more than skin deep. Reconstructive surgery, which Dr. Murray also excelled in, continues to push the field forward, with implications far beyond cosmetic procedures.

LOOK: Transplant Survivor Holds Her Heart In Her Hands

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 03.01.2013 | Good News

The photograph of a beaming transplant patient holding her old, diseased heart in her hands has been lifting spirits across the Internet. "This is ...

Chelsea Kiene

Marion Barry's Plan To Encourage Organ Donors

HuffingtonPost.com | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 01.10.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- More than 115,000 people in the United States wait today for a lifesaving organ transplant. That list, which keeps growing, once include...

Do Current Organ Transplant Policies Restrict Potential Donors?

Janet Radcliffe Richards | Posted 11.05.2012 | Science
Janet Radcliffe Richards

Rightly or wrongly, we make much more fuss about the rights of the dead than the benefit of the living. When there are public scandals about transplantation, these are never about the lives lost that could so easily have been saved, but about organs said to have been improperly procured.

He Brought It Upon Himself

John Rankl | Posted 09.09.2012 | Gay Voices
John Rankl

One morning, two of my doctors had just finished evaluating me. They had left the room and routinely sat down at their computer stations to type their medical notes. I could easily hear their conversation. I heard one doctor say to the other, "Oh well, he brought it upon himself."

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

Quora | Posted 06.27.2012 | Weird 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.

Kidney Donation: How Do You Match Up?

Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP | Posted 06.25.2012 | Healthy Living
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?

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

Posted 01.14.2012 | Latino Voices

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...

Rebuilding Bodies

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 09.14.2011 | Healthy Living

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...

Lucas Kavner

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 07.24.2011 | Impact

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

Chinese Organ Donor Plan Causes Controversy

Posted 06.26.2011 | World

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...

Pope Champions Organ Transplants -- But Is No Longer Donor

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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...

How to Be a Hero in One Easy Step

Cari Shane | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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.

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

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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.

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

Russ Belville | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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...

Illinois Family Travels The Country For Organ Donations

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

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...

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

Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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...

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

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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.

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

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

State Media: China Organ Transplants Come From Death Row

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

Egypt's Poor Sell Their Organs For A Steep Price

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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...