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Stories about: kidney transplant

Canadian Man Scammed Out of His Life A Canadian man ultimately paid with his life for trusting an online website claiming to offer living donor kidney transplants in the Philippines. A U.S. citizen already wanted for fraud has been arrested under the suspicion of instrumenting the scam. Jerome Feldman, 67, has been taken into custody in Guam for runnin... 23 March 2009 04:45 GMT The Online Kidney Hunt Is On New ethical questions are asked each day about the ever-growing number of Internet sites dedicated to finding kidney donors or solicitors on the Web. These sites answer the need that people in terminal stages of renal diseases have, which is to receive new organs from living persons. The other option implies waiting ... 16 October 2008 09:00 GMT Kidney Transplants Are Tricky Outside The U.S. A new UCLA study dealing with the safety of organ transplants abroad revealed concerning results. Two groups were involved in the research, one made up of people who went outside the United States for kidney transplants and the second containing people that underwent the complicated procedure and follow-up tests at t... 16 October 2008 04:28 GMT