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'No regrets'
(BBC 24/06/2009)
Paul van den Bosch is a 54-year-old GP based in Surrey. He became a "living donor" in April 2008, giving one of his kidneys to someone he had never met. Here he describes how he made the decision, and shares his thoughts a year on. "Being a doctor myself meant I was perhaps able to see this issue from a rather different perspective to others. For one, I'd worked in kidney units. But also I knew the operation itself - while of course not risk free - was not a major ordeal."
Stranger kidney donations rising
(BBC 24/06/2009)
Twenty-two people have given a kidney to a stranger since the practice became possible in the UK two years ago, the body in charge of such donations says. Ten put themselves forward in the first year and 15 in the second - three of these have not yet undergone surgery. The Human Tissue Authority (HTA), which decides whether people are suitable, said the numbers were "remarkable". There are currently 7,000 people waiting for a kidney in the UK amid a serious shortage of donor organs.
Family appeal for a new kidney in a shop window
(BBC 28/04/2009)
The family of a mother who needs a kidney transplant has resorted to placing an advert in an Edinburgh shop window appealing for a donor. Suraiya Ahmed, 29, who is very weak in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary has six months to find a kidney after suffering failure when seven months pregnant. She gave birth to Liyana on Easter Sunday by caesarean section, despite only having 7% kidney function.
Transplant woman winched off ship
(BBC 21/04/2009)
Judy Stockwell, who is in her 60s and has been on a transplant list for two years, was on board the Queen Victoria. She received at call at 0200 BST saying there was a suitable kidney for her at Addenbrooke's Hospital if she could get there by 0900 BST, coastguards said. A helicopter from RNAS Culdrose winched her from the ship and flew to Luton. She was then driven to Cambridge.
Why I gave my kidney to a stranger
(The Independent 07/04/2009)
Barbara Ryder is one of the very few people to have made a live organ donation to someone she'd never met. She tells Rob Sharp how she made her decision - and describes her special friendship with the man whose life she saved.
Donor kidney removed via vagina
(BBC 03/02/2009)
US surgeons say they have successfully removed a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the back of the donor's vagina. Removing the kidney through "a natural orifice" speeds up recovery and gives a better cosmetic result - avoiding a six inch abdominal scar - they say. The team say the 48-year-old woman who donated the organ to her niece on 29 January is "doing well".
Taking back what's mine - man asks for kidney's return in divorce
(BBC 08/01/2009)
A US man divorcing his wife demands that she return the kidney he donated to her or pay him $1.5m ('£1m) in compensation.
Cancer drug cuts organ rejection in transplant cases
(The Scotsman 28/12/2008)
A BLOOD cancer drug can help prevent organ rejection in transplant patients, scientists have found. The drug bortezomib is designed to treat multiple myeloma, which affects white blood plasma cells. New research shows that it can also prevent the immune system's antibodies attacking transplanted kidneys as bortezomib targets B-lymphocytes, the white blood cells that produce antibodies.
First Christmas at home for toddler after father gives her his kidney
(Telegraph 12/12/2008)
Caitlin Stuart was born with just one kidney that had only 20% function. Her father, Mike Stuart, 32, offered to donate one of his but Caitlin was so small she had to wait 2 1/2 years for the transplant to go ahead. Even after she reached the required weight, the youngster was so tiny that surgeons had to move some of her internal organs to make room for the kidney.
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