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Living kidney donors may be blocked from getting health coverage
Right now, it's very difficult for many patients awaiting transplants to get the organ they need, including those who need kidneys. The charitable living donors who sign up to share one of their... Read more...
Kidney foundation offers plan for reimbursing donors
The National Kidney Foundation has a proposed a plan under which families of deceased and living donors be reimbursed for costs and medical care related to the donation. The new policy includes a... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Doctors debate propriety of public pleas for donor organs
When patients fear that they'll die without one, it's no surprise that they're willing to go public with pleas for donor organs--and the practice is getting increasingly mainstream. In fact, at... Read more...
