This is a Valentine’s Day tale that involves a love connection of one kind and ends with a match of an entirely different sort.
organ donation
A Court Allows Payment for Bone Marrow. Should People Be Able to Sell Their Parts?
How much would it take for you to consider selling your bone marrow? A U.S. appeals court puts the price at about $3,000 in a ruling that now makes it legal to pay donors for their bone-marrow tissue.
Facebook Status Update: Organ Donor
Not content with merely changing the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can save a few lives too. Users of the site can now post their organ-donor status to their Facebook timeinlines. See the full story on our …
Study: A Second Exam for Brain Death is Unnecessary — and Reduces Organ Donations
Deciding to remove a loved one from life support is a heart-wrenching decision. But for families of eligible organ donors, their decision has an even wider impact — there are 108,725 people currently waiting for organs for …
For kidney donors, no long-term risk of premature death
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 Journal of the American Medical Association. Each year, an estimated 6,000 healthy people donate kidneys to ailing loved ones or, in some cases, to strangers through large chain donations. Yet
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