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NewsNew York hospital wins diseased kidney transplant case
A jury has found prominent organ-transplant hospital NYU Langone Medical Center not to blame in the September 2002 death of Vincent Liew, who developed cancer after receiving a kidney from a donor Read more...
CA surgeon acquitted of hastening patient death
California transplant surgeon Dr. Hootan Roozrokh could hardly have faced uglier charges. Roozrokh, 34, was accused of hastening the death of Ruben Navarro, a 25-year old man with multiple Read more...
Trial of CA transplant surgeon underway
The trial of a San Francisco transplant surgeon accused of hastening a patient's death to harvest his organs was scheduled to begin on Monday. Opening statements were set to be made in the case 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...
| Press ReleasesMayo Clinic Physician Who Donated Kidney to Stranger to be Honored at Rose ParadeROCHESTER, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jim Haemmerle, M.D., a Mayo Clinic Health System physician from Menomonie, Wis., has been selected to ride on Donate Life America’s “One More Day” float at the Read more >> Mayo Clinic Announces Official Opening of Gabriel House of Care on Its Jacksonville CampusJACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mayo Clinic and St. Andrew’s Lighthouse, Inc. will today announce the official opening of Gabriel House of Care at a dedication ceremony on the clinic’s Read more >> One Organ Donor Saves Three Lives at Packard Children’sPALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- It's not every day that one organ donation saves three lives at the same hospital. But that's what happened recently at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, when Read more >> |
