Kidney transplant has higher benefit over dialysis.
The longer patients on dialysis wait for kidney transplants once they develop end-stage kidney failure, the poorer their outcomes, says a study in the medical journal Transplantation. The findings by researchers at the University of Florida reinforce the value of transplants over dialysis for these patients and...

AIIMS team's feat could help many.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: Of the 1.12 crore blind in India, as many as 3 million suffer from corneal problems. And out of this 3 million, 26% are children. It is estimated that India needs 2 lakh donated cornea every year, but gets only 15,000 donors....

First living liver transplant.
BANGALORE: One-year-old Rohit Pillai from Pune was suffering from a complex congenital disease related to liver which dashed the hopes of his survival. Liver transplantation was the only solution that their doctors prescribed and the treatment cost was way beyond the parents' affordable limits. But...

New cannibalism: Chinese surgeons extracting vital organs from condemned prisoners. Indian villagers selling a kidney for a dowry. And all to feed the booming global traffic in human organs for transplant.
GEORGE SOROS is best known as a world-class billionaire financier. But in a recent issue of Atlantic Monthly he finds himself analyzing some of the deficiencies of the global capitalist economy. It's a fairly elementary exercise but since it comes from someone in his position we tend to sit...

Meeting the Challenge and Reaping the Rewards: Coping with Kidney Transplantation.
As with any stage of kidney disease, there is a period of adjustment following transplantation, and long-term care is required to maintain good health. Five years ago I met "EH," a shy, reticent young man of 16, when his mother accompanied him to a pre-transplant evaluation appointment....

An Introduction to LEAN.
Cincinnati's Children's Hospital and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia are large, urban, tertiary care pediatric hospitals, each with more than 400 in-patient beds that serve patients from throughout the world. Some of the specialized pediatric services and programs offered at our institutions include fetal diagnosis and surgery, metabolic diseases,...

The Gift of Life and the Common Good: The Need for a Communal Approach to Organ Procurement.
The Need for a Communal Approach to Organ Procurement Its critics to the contrary, the "gift of life" metaphor is not to be blamed for the indebtedness and guilt that organ recipients often experience. It is certainly misused, however, both by post-transplant caregivers, who exploit it to...

The "art" of hair transplants.
If you are considering a hair transplant, it might help to know that industry standards have changed dramatically Today's hair creations are designed to look as natural on the beach as they do in the boardroom, maintains Matt L. Leavitt, president, the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology. "Simply implanting...

What's the appeal? Trying to control managed care medical necessity decisionmaking through a system of external appeals.
[Ralph] Benedetto, 44, a disabled Medicaid patient, contracted hepatitis B 10 years ago from a blood transfusion he received after he was struck by a drunken driver. Two years ago, his doctors said his disease had progressed to the point where he could die at any moment without a...

The Fallacy of the "Gift of Life".
Advances in surgical techniques, pre- and post-operative care, and immunosuppression have improved success rates of many kinds of tissue and solid organ transplantation in both the short and long term. Moreover, transplantation is performed for an ever-increasing array of underlying diseases, conditions, and candidate characteristics--for example, advanced age or...