Kidney donation and the law
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- Medico-legal issues: The law of kidney transplantation in Australia. // Australia & World Affairs;Summer97, Issue 31, p44
Focuses on the law on kidney transplantation in Australia. Distinction between adult and child donors; Kidney donations by live donors; Prohibition of trade in human tissue; Confidentiality issues.
- Things That Make You Think. EDABURN, PATRICK // Moderate Voice;12/14/2012, p14
The author focuses on the donation process in which hospitals does not charge the donor of a kidney, but the donor will be likely to run to financial trouble because the law does not allow people to be paid for donations in the U.S.
- Kidney failure and kidney donation. Donohue, Paul G. // Adirondack Daily Enterprise;4/30/2010, Vol. 117 Issue 102, p6
The article provides an answer to a question of the significance of kidney donation in treating kidney failure.
- Response to ‘Voluntary reciprocal altruism: A novel strategy to encourage decreased organ donation’. Undis, D. J. // Kidney International;Aug2006, Vol. 70 Issue 3, p606
A response to a letter to the editor about kidney donation.
- Online CME Quiz Questions: Live Kidney Donation: A 36-Year-Old Woman Hoping to Donate a Kidney to Her Mother. // JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association;2/9/2011, Vol. 305 Issue 6, p627
A quiz about live kidney donation is presented.
- You can shorten the kidney wait list. College, Jean // Filipino Post;2/23/2012, p9
The article offers facts and figures related to kidney donation in Canada and the steps on how to donate a kidney.
- Kidney donation rules expanded in Israel. Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);11/23/96, Vol. 313 Issue 7068, p1282
Reports on health minister Tzahi Hanegbi's issuance of a new regulation in Israel allowing non-relatives to donate their kidney for transplantation. Previous law; Skepticism and speculation concerning the new rule.
- "I did it for love". Stoiber, Julie // Good Housekeeping;Nov2004, Vol. 239 Issue 5, p58
Presents an article on being a kidney donor to a sister-in-law. Family background; Factors considered before deciding to become a donor; Primary reason for donating an organ; Success of the operation.
- Opinion polls and kidney transplantation. // British Medical Journal;2/16/1980, Vol. 280 Issue 6212, p427
Focuses on the opinion polls on kidney transplantation in Great Britain. Percentage of people obtaining a donor card; Oppositions on the kidney donation; Identification of kidney donation as social obligation.
- Public attitudes towards kidney transplantation. Moore, B.; Clarke, G.; Lewis, B.R.; Mallick, N.P. // British Medical Journal;3/13/1976, Vol. 1 Issue 6010, p629
Focuses on the public attitudes towards kidney transplantation in Great Britain. Percentage of survey respondents completed a donor card; Evidence of objection to the procedures involved in obtaining cadaver kidneys; Ways to increase the numbers of potential donors without changing the law...
