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May 7, 2013 2:09 pm

Rabbi okays HIV-positive organ donation

In halachic precedent, Israel’s former Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron rules life-saving organ donation can be received from HIV-positive patient, even if recipient may be infected with disease.

April 22, 2013 2:43 pm

Parents needn’t tell donor children their origins’ says leading British think-tank

Should parents be required to tell donor children of their origins? An influential British think-tank says No.

March 14, 2013 1:07 pm

Medical first? Woman who had five-organ transplant gives birth

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 girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth.

February 25, 2013 4:39 pm

Heart transplant patients are living longer, better, thanks to advancements (The Miami Herald)

Advancements in anti-rejection drugs that have fewer severe side effects, longer survival rates for pediatric and adult heart transplant patients, and new devices are a few of the steps forward in treating patients with coronary heart disease and other defects.

February 19, 2013 12:48 pm

Charity worker survives six-organ transplant ordeal (The Northern Echo)

A charity worker who had six of her organs transplanted after being given six months to live has returned to work.  She has become one of three patients in Britain to survive a single six-organ transplant operation, in which she was given a new stomach, liver, kidney, colon, pancreas and small intestine.

February 13, 2013 12:37 pm

Bill Would Ensure Medical Marijuana Users Can Receive Organ Transplants (The Patch)

Should users of medical marijuana be prevented from getting needed organ transplants?  Not according to a bill being considered by state legislators, which treats medical marijuana as no different from any other prescription drug.

January 10, 2013 1:33 pm

Mass donor organ fraud shakes Germany (The Guardian)

German authorities are calling for an overhaul of the country’s organ transplant programme after transplant centres were placed under investigation for  systematically manipulating donor waiting lists.

December 18, 2012 5:02 pm

Cystic fibrosis sufferer given smoker's lungs in transplant died of cancer (Daily Mail)

Jennifer Wederell was given the lungs of a 20-a-day smoker.  A year after the operation she died of cancer.  Husband says she would never have agreed to transplant had she known.

December 12, 2012 2:49 pm

Ohio Hospital to Resume Transplants After Accidentally Trashing Kidney (ABC News)

An Ohio hospital is set to resume live kidney transplants four months after an organ landed in the trash instead of its intended recipient.  The University of Toledo Medical Center halted live transplants after a man’s kidney – intended for his sick sister – was accidentally thrown out as medical waste.

December 10, 2012 7:16 pm

Undocumented immigrant gets kidney (Chicago Tribune)

As an illegal immigrant, Jorge Mariscal waited eight years for a kidney transplant he feared would never come.  After years of uncertainties, Mariscal said he’s excited about his future but remains frustrated with a health care system that he worries might leave out an untold number of illegal immigrants in need of lifesaving treatments.