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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
An often asymptomatic condition - systolic dysfunction, or decreased pumping of the heart - poses an increased risk of death for patients on kidney transplant waiting lists, according to a study appearing in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The findings reveal that a clinical indicator beyond well-known risk factors for cardiovascular mortality...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
An often asymptomatic condition systolic dysfunction, or decreased pumping of the heart poses an increased risk of death for patients on kidney transplant waiting lists, according to a study appearing in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Guyana is set to see the first kidney transplant done in the country next month.
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Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
1/5/08 The Philippines is banning kidney transplants for foreigners from next month as part of a crackdown on a growing but illicit trade in human organs bought from the poor. Foreigners who violate it, as well as the middlemen, can be jailed for up to 20 years and fined two million pesos ($51,000), the Health Secretary, [...]
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
The Philippines is banning kidney transplants for foreigners in a government crackdown on a growing but illicit trade in organs bought from the poor, officials said Tuesday.
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
The government says it is cracking on a growing but illicit trade in human organs bought from the poor. Share This
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Although the sale of human organs has always been illegal in the Philippines, kidney transplants have become a lucrative underground business, with hospitals classifying the kidneys as donations to evade the law, according to Amihan Abueva, the regional director in Manila of the Asia Acts Against Child Trafficking, a nongovernmental group that lobbied for the ban.
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
As kidney transplants for rich foreigners rose, so did an illicit trade in buying and selling organs from poor Filipino "donors."
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On Deadline (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
In a bid to keep locals from selling their body parts, the Philippines government plans to announce a ban on most kidney transplants for foreigners, according to news reports. "The provisions of the administrative order prohibit payment as a precondition...
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Health authorities in the Philippines will this week announce a ban on most kidney transplants for foreign patients in a bid to stem a thriving trade in organs, health ministry sources said Monday.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Surgeons have performed the world's first 'domino' operation involving six simultaneous kidney transplants. Nine teams at the Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore spent ten hours carrying out the procedures. Five of the six recipients had found a friend or relative to donate a kidney which, although it did not match them, would match another of the six and when an anonymous living...
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DATA news (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore transplanted a half-dozen kidneys simultaneously, an operation believed to be the first of its kind, hospital officials announced.
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The Boston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Genzyme Corp. has recalled three lots of a drug used for patients undergoing kidney transplants.
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POE News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Pierre Kattar Jr. could not donate a kidney to his father because of incompatibility, so he gave one to Niral Patel, whose mother had wanted to give him a kidney but could not. Instead, Patel's mother gave her kidney to Alice Smith.So it went last Thursday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where four kidney donors and four kidney recipients gathered for a rare set...
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DL-Online : Detroit Lakes (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Less than a month after their transplant surgery, Curt Matejka and Sandy Quade met again at the Frazee VFW Post 7702. Sandy says she felt like a new person and Curt was rewarded to see the change in her. Every year on Feb. 26, the two will meet to share a meal and celebrate their stitched together paths.
