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3 hrs ago | CBS Local

Local Graduate Stays Focused As Father, Mother Undergo Kidney Transplant Surgery

College graduation can be a joyous time for a family- maybe a bit stressful too - but for a young woman about to graduate from La Salle on Sunday there's another big event ahead.

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Related Topix: Health, Standardized Testing, Education

Sat May 18, 2013

KIMT

A Room Makeover Well Deserved

For one north Iowa family, pampering and a day of activities is just the key to help take their minds off of everyday life dealing with a serious illness.

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Related Topix: Mason City, IA, Health

Patch.com

Benefit Dinner Planned for Dearborn Man in Need of Kidney Transplant

Mohamed Haidar is waiting for the phone call that will change his life. The 21-year-old Henry Ford Community College student needs a kidney transplant, but finding a donor has been almost impossible.

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Related Topix: Dearborn, MI, Health, Dearborn Heights, MI

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Hospitals cancel elective surgeries ahead of strike

Sacramento's UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals have begun canceling elective surgeries because of a two-day strike planned by some workers next week.

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, UC Davis, Health, Medicine, Nursing

NorthJersey.com

Hackensack University Medical Center gets federal OK to reopen kidney center

Hackensack University Medical Center received federal approval Friday to restart its kidney transplant program, a year after it shut down because of higher-than-expected rates of death and kidney failure.

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Related Topix: Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Hackensack University Medical Center, Health, Medicare

Lancashire Telegraph

Foulridge couple's lost dialysis machine is found

A COUPLE who lost their life-saving kidney dialysis machine when it fell out of their van are delighted after it was found.

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Related Topix: Health

Fri May 17, 2013

Stanford

Mom gets in shape to give kidney to daughter with rare illness

Taylor Simpson received a kidney from her mother, Lori Vargas, after being diagnosed with Goodpasture syndrome, a rare and life-threatening autoimmune disease.

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Related Topix: Watsonville, CA, Nephrology

Medical News Today

Experts Challenge Assumption, Describe Pathway That Leads To Organ Rejection

Transplant researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine challenge a long-held assumption about how biologic pathways trigger immune system rejection of donor organs in a report published online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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Related Topix: University of Pittsburgh, Health

Medical News Today

Robotic Kidney Transplants May Be Best Option For Obese Patients

Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations Also Included In: Urology / Nephrology ; Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Article Date: 17 May 2013 - 1:00 PDT Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Health, Nephrology, Urology, Medicine

ClickOnDetroit

Women fights for fifth kidney transplant

She says she's met death face to face many times but she isn't willing to give up.

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Related Topix: Health, Sulphur, LA

Thu May 16, 2013

Real Clear Politics

Consumers Not the Best Drivers in Health Care

Consumers pay the cost of ordinary care, such as a checkup, a blood test or an eye exam.

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Related Topix: Health, Medicaid, Medicine, Medicare

Reuters

Warning didn't change for-profit dialysis drug use

Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than non-profit centers in 2008, says a new study.

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Related Topix: Dialysis, Medicine, Health, Anemia, UC San Francisco, Food and Drug Administration, Kidney Cancer

Wed May 15, 2013

EurekAlert!

Robotic transplant an option for obese kidney patients

Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System.

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Related Topix: Health, Illinois

EurekAlert!

Pitt transplant experts challenge assumption, describe pathway that leads to organ rejection

Transplant researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine challenge a long-held assumption about how biologic pathways trigger immune system rejection of donor organs in a report published online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation .

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Related Topix: University of Pittsburgh, National Institutes of Health, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health, Yale University

Tue May 14, 2013

Business Wire

Research and Markets: Disease and Therapy Review 2012: Kidney Transplant

The Kidney Transplant Disease and Therapy Review provides procedure rates and prevalence numbers and percentages for major countries worldwide.

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Related Topix: Health

Silicon Alley Insider

Steve Jobs's Last Gift, A Life-Giving Gift, Becomes A Reality Today

Steve Jobs was best known for imagining a better future and then organizing others to help him make that future happen.

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Related Topix: California, California Government, Steve Jobs, Celebrities, Arnold Schwarzenegger, US Governors, Health

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Kidney donation film premieres at Capitol

Sacramento area residents are invited today to attend the premiere of "The Chain," a short documentary about events set in motion by a kidney donor and the "chain" of transplants sparked by her donation.

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Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, Health

The Province

'Don't take your organs to heaven': Richmond student makes plea for dad in need of transplant

RICHMOND, BC: MAY 13, 2013 -- Baljot Mangat, 19, right and her father Sukinder Mangat, 48 left admire a flowering tree at their home in Richmond Monday, May 13, 2013.

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Related Topix: Health

Mon May 13, 2013

Edmonton Journal

Government pushes provincial organ donation agency onto its agenda

The provincial government is throwing its support behind legislation establishing a provincewide organ and tissue donation agency and an online donor registry.

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Related Topix: Alberta, MN, Health, Kidney Cancer

NBC Dallas

Pastor Spreads Word of Need for Hispanic Organ Donations

A North Texas family of pastors and missionaries wants to spread the word, especially to Hispanics, that religion shouldn't keep anyone from being an organ donor.

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Related Topix: Health, Fasting