Organ donation can make a difference

Organ donation can make a difference : Make a fist with your hand. That's the average size of a normal kidney. It weighs about as much a...

Integration influences organ donation

Integration influences organ donation  Spain's largest free English language newspaper covering 6 editions Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca N...

Kidney-donor deaths linked to surgical clips raise issues of alerts ...

Kidney-donor deaths linked to surgical clips raise issues of alerts ...  Starting in 2004, transplant surgeons, such as Dr. Amy Friedman, b...

Chicago woman cured of sickle cell disease

Chicago woman cured of sickle cell disease  This type of stem cell transplant is only possible for patients who have a healthy ... to the ...

Wales launches organ donor scheme that people have to opt out of

Wales launches organ donor scheme that people have to opt out of Details of the first organ donation scheme in the UK that puts the onus o...

Woman Denied Liver Transplant Because of Pornography Use

Woman Denied Liver Transplant Because of Pornography Use  The 34-year-old woman, who is applying to other medical centers and thus prefers t...

Infographic: Just How Hard Is It To Get An Organ Transplant?

Infographic: Just How Hard Is It To Get An Organ Transplant? : When I think “transplant,” for whatever reason, “ heart transplant ” pops in ...

How brain performs `motor chunking` tasks revealed

How brain performs `motor chunking` tasks revealed  “You can think about a chunk as a rhythm,” said Nicholas Wymbs , a postdoctoral research...

Study by UC Santa Barbara psychologists reveals how brain performs ...

Study by UC Santa Barbara psychologists reveals how brain performs ...  IMAGE Pictured are Nicholas Wymbs left and Scott Grafton in the UCS...

Robin Roberts' Illness: Be the Match Urges More to Donate Bone Marrow

Robin Roberts' Illness: Be the Match Urges More to Donate Bone Marrow : In a letter to viewers, Roberts, also a breast cancer survivor, ...

Donation Details

Donation Details : Q. Can a long-term survivor of melanoma donate organs ? A. For most cancers, the longer one is cancer-free, the lower the...

Mayo Clinic to offer organ transplant consultations at the Mall of America

Mayo Clinic to offer organ transplant consultations at the Mall of America  Starting this month, patients can schedule one-on-one consultati...

Cloning Teeth: Medicine's Next Big Thing?

Cloning Teeth: Medicine's Next Big Thing?  (Source: The National Institutes of Health resource for stem cell research ) CLONING TEETH: N...

Kidney exchange between strangers spans continents

Kidney exchange between strangers spans continents  In the upcoming transplants , a donor from Trinidad and Tobago will enter the chain as w...

Kirby: Organ donors don't discriminate. Should you?

Kirby: Organ donors don't discriminate. Should you?  I'm betting that if you or a loved one desperately needs a kidney, you won'...