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      <title>Growing lungs in a lab: researchers move closer to goal</title>
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      <description>One study succeeds in engineering an organ that can sustain a rat, an achievement that could hasten the time when artificial human lungs can be produced. Another study creates a mimicking device for toxicology tests</description>
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      <title>Distribution of livers to those most in need not a simple matter</title>
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      <description>Organ transplant policy makers are renewing efforts to change how livers are allocated, saying scarce livers should go to patients who need them the most</description>
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      <title>For kidney donors, no long-Term risk of premature death</title>
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      <description>Live kidney donors have similar long-term survival rates as non-donor peers, according to a new study published in the March 10 issue of the
        <em>Journal of the American Medical Association</em>
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      <title>British "Pooled" kidney transplants point to more</title>
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      <description>Kidney transplant procedures in which three donors agreed to "pool" their organs, so a loved one could receive a compatible kidney from a stranger, have been performed for the first time in Britain, doctors said on Monday</description>
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      <title>Japanese Government Warns Hospitals Away From Transplant Tourism to China</title>
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      <description>The Japanese government recently warned hospitals from assisting with transplant tourism to China after an investigation of over two hundred hospitals uncovered several doctors who had provided such assistance</description>
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      <title>How genes interact with their environment to raise disease risk</title>
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      <description>A new study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has revealed how human genes interact with their environment to cause disease</description>
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      <title>Mayo Clinic's first DCD lung transplantation performed in 59-Year-Old Illinois man</title>
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      <description>A potential solution for patients with end-stage lung disease is donation after cardiac death (DCD)</description>
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      <title>Progress for Laura’s Law: Organ donation legislation passes in the House</title>
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      <description>State legislation that strives to increase awareness about organ donation and make it easier to donate — and which is named after late Melrose resident Laura Linehan — passed the House last week and is now headed to the Senate</description>
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      <title>The Gift Of Life</title>
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      <description>Organ donation comforts those left behind and offers hope to the many awaiting transplants</description>
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      <title>Transplant Links</title>
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      <description>Added Biomedsearch.com: a new medical literature search engine</description>
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      <title>Pulse, hopes fading, immigrant seeks heart</title>
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      <description>Status as illegal could be fatal complication for one Brazilian man</description>
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      <title>Old kidneys for old folk in transplant plan</title>
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      <description>THEY are the kidneys transplant doctors reject: considered too old or unhealthy to give another person a decent shot at life</description>
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      <title>Woman's illness spawns donation</title>
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      <description>Laurie Sears Deppa had every intention of undergoing surgery to help an Edgewater woman in poor health</description>
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      <title>Transplant Links</title>
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        <a href="http://www.yesutah.org/">Yes Utah.com</a>
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      <title>Web site focuses on organ donation, registration</title>
      <link>http://www.marylinstransplantpage.com/site-focuses09.htm</link>
      <description>Utahns who have thought about donating their organs when they die, or who would be willing to donate blood, bone marrow or a kidney as living donors, have a new way to make their wishes known</description>
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      <title>Doctors split over organ donation switch</title>
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      <description>DOCTORS are calling for tougher rules on organ donation after a new national protocol said surgeons could start removing organs just two minutes after someone's heart has stopped beating</description>
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      <title>Swine flu and immunosuppression</title>
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      <description>Most immunosuppressed people can be safely vaccinated</description>
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      <title>Crime of organ donation center’s IT director gives new significance to “Think before you click”</title>
      <link>http://www.marylinstransplantpage.com/organ-crime09.htm</link>
      <description>The fired director of information technology for
        <a href="http://www.lifegift.org/">LifeGift</a>
        , a not-for-profit organization that recovers organs and tissue for individuals who need transplants in North, Southeast, and West Texas, will spend two years in prison...</description>
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      <title>Daughter gives her mom a kidney</title>
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      <description>When Joann Leverknight needed a kidney, her daughter, Kathy Hause, didn’t hesitate to offer one of hers</description>
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      <title>A Better Way to Get a Kidney</title>
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      <description>SO Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, may or may not have jumped to the front of the transplant queue in his quest to get a new liver. What else is new? Wake up and smell the curry, fellow Americans</description>
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      <title>Microscopic ‘beads’ may revolutionise organ transplantation</title>
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      <description>If Medical College of Georgia researchers are to be believed, organ transplantation in future may include microscopic beads that create “designer” immune cells so that patients may tolerate their new organ</description>
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      <title>A Hope to Prolong Fertility: Ovarian Transplants</title>
      <link>http://www.marylinstransplantpage.com/ovary-transplant09.htm</link>
      <description>For Stephanie Yarber, who received a diagnosis of premature ovarian failure at age 14, conceiving children the old-fashioned way was a life's wish</description>
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      <title>Kidney for sale: Let's legally reward the donor</title>
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      <description>World Kidney Day, to be held Thursday, is part of a global health campaign meant to alert us to the impact of kidney disease. Sadly, there is little to celebrate</description>
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      <title>Artificial Liver Extends Lives</title>
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      <description>Each year, more than 6,000 people undergo a liver transplant in the United States, says the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Patients receive donor livers either from someone with a healthy liver who has recently died or a family member who donates part of his or her liver</description>
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      <title>California RNs Debate Organ Donation After Cardiac Death</title>
      <link>http://www.marylinstransplantpage.com/california-rns09.htm</link>
      <description>For many years ethicists have debated, &quot;When does life begin?&quot; A lesser-known ethical question now being debated is &quot;When does death begin?&quot;</description>
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