Monthly Archives: October 2011

BY Kathleen Lucadamo / NY Daily News NEW YORK – A Brooklyn teen is getting a new kidney this week – thanks to a New Jersey teacher who’s so thrilled to donate that she feels like she “won the lottery.” … Continue reading →

by Kavita Verma /  News Tonight AUSTRALIA – As per reports, a new research, conducted by the Melbourne Renal Research Group, has made a very surprising claim and surely after reading the statements, all the elderly people, above 70 years, … Continue reading →

Renal & Urology News VANCOUVER, B.C.—Individuals who wish to donate a kidney anonymously are motivated by altruism rather than psychopathology, according to new studies. A case series presented by a Vancouver team at the Canadian Psychiatric Association’s 2011 annual meeting … Continue reading →

By Abby Spegman / SentinelSource.com Donor, recipient gaining each day Nearly two months after a kidney transplant, Kevin E. Moody and his donor, Robert W. Emberley, are back to work and regaining their strength. “It’s gone very smoothly,” Moody said … Continue reading →

Fox News TRENTON, New Jersey –  A New York man pleaded guilty Thursday to brokering the sale of black-market organs in what prosecutors said was the first ever federal conviction for illegally selling human kidneys for profit. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum … Continue reading →

By Dwayne Parker / WFMZ News SPRING TWP., Pa. – At the Mulvaney house, you can generally hear a blues melody floating out of the windows. Inside, you’ll find two best friends, Calvin Mulvaney, along with his son, Ethan, of … Continue reading →

By CAROLINE WILSON / Evening Times GAIL FLEMING died at the age of 38 of liver failure, leaving two young children without a mother. SCOTLAND – By the time a transplant match was found, amid chronic shortages of donors across … Continue reading →

By Jesse Phillips/ The Sunday Telegraph AUSTRALIA – Sydney’s leading transplant specialists say that ticking yes or no to becoming a donor on a driver’s licence hinders more than it helps because it is ultimately up to families to give … Continue reading →

by Pratibha Minhas / News Tonight INDIA – Organ donation is a noble cause that has adequate potential to save millions of lives or to facilitate a physically disabled person in living a normal life. In spite number of awareness … Continue reading →

By Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow Adult stem-cell therapy using the kidney donor’s stem cells may help kidney transplant patients to get off of anti-rejection drugs. These immuno suppressive drugs make the patient more receptive to infections, making even the common … Continue reading →