News tagged with kidney donation
Hopkins transplant surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina
In what is believed to be a first-ever procedure, surgeons at Johns Hopkins have successfully removed a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the back of the donor's vagina.
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Britain to outlaw most private organ transplants
(AP) -- The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Kidney donors suffer few ill effects from life-giving act, landmark study finds
In a landmark study of more than 80,000 live kidney donors from across the United States, Johns Hopkins researchers have found the procedure carries very little medical risk and that, in the long term, people who donate one ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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