<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Organ Donation: News &amp; Videos about Organ Donation - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Organ_Donation</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Organ Donation from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:59:13 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Organ Donation: News &amp; Videos about Organ Donation - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/CRIME/07/21/new.jersey.cops.shot/tztop.nj.shooting.wabc.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Organ_Donation</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Organ Donation from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>N.J. cop injured in shootout dies day before 38th birthday</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/21/new.jersey.cops.shot/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/21/new.jersey.cops.shot/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Jersey City, New Jersey, police officer shot in the line of duty last week died of his injuries Tuesday, a day before his 38th birthday, a spokeswoman for the city's mayor announced.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cop injured in N.J. shootout not expected to live</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/20/new.jersey.cops.shot/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/20/new.jersey.cops.shot/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Jersey City, New Jersey, police officer shot in the line of duty last week is not expected to survive, a police official said Monday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Girl's heart heals itself 10 years after transplant</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/14/hannah.clark.heart/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/14/hannah.clark.heart/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hannah Clark is a 16-year-old with a shy laugh and a love of animals. She likes to go shopping with friends and dreams of a career working with children.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Did Steve Jobs' money buy him a faster liver transplant?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.priority.lists/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.priority.lists/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>This week it was reported that Steve Jobs, the CEO and cofounder of Apple, underwent a liver transplant two months ago. One detail concerning Jobs's transplant seemed odd: The surgery took place at a hospital in Tennessee, some 2,000 miles from Jobs' home in northern California. Why Tennessee?</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Steve Jobs recovering after liver transplant</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/23/steve.jobs.liver.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/23/steve.jobs.liver.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Apple CEO Steve Jobs is recovering after undergoing a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, the institute's program director said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Spain leads the way in organ donation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/17/organ.donation/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/17/organ.donation/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Earlier this week, the case of Hiroki Ando, the Japanese 11-year-old boy who was denied a heart transplant in Japan, highlighted the vast cultural divide in attitudes towards organ transplant and availability worldwide.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Boy not allowed to get life-saving transplant in Japan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/12/japan.organ.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/12/japan.organ.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Eleven-year-old Hiroki Ando will likely die if he does not get a new heart.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rihanna on Jasmina's Transplant: 'Miracles Do Happen'</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20284847,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20284847,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The singer tells PEOPLE she hopes the young leukemia patient has a "fast recovery"</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Natalie Cole Celebrates Life with a Post-Surgery Concert</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20284134,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20284134,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>Thanking fans for their support during her kidney transplant, the singer returns to the stage</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Natalie Cole Is Released from the Hospital</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20280983,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20280983,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The Grammy winner, who underwent a kidney transplant, plans to attend a family memorial service for her late sister Carol</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Natalie Cole kidney came from deceased fan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/21/natalie.cole.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/21/natalie.cole.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Natalie Cole's search for a new kidney ended this week when someone with a compatible organ died and their family asked that it be given to the singer, according to the organ procurement group that handled the donation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 02:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Natalie Cole Undergoes Kidney Transplant</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20280194,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20280194,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The singer is "resting comfortably" after receiving a donor organ on Tuesday, says her rep</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Natalie Cole has kidney transplant</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/20/natalie.cole.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/20/natalie.cole.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Singer Natalie Cole underwent kidney transplant surgery at a Los Angeles, California, hospital Tuesday, according to a statement from her publicist.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 20:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>First U.S. face transplant recipient offers thanks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/04/face.transplant.patient/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/04/face.transplant.patient/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In 2004, a bullet ripped away Connie Culp's nose, cheeks and upper jaw. Metal fragments sprayed into her skull and stripped her face away, leaving nothing except for her eyes, her chin and forehead.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rihanna Pays Special Visit to Sick Fan</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20271324,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20271324,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>"It breaks my heart to see her go through this," she says of young Jasmina, who needs a bone marrow donor</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Natasha Richardson's Organs Donated After Her Death</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20266545_20267726,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20266545_20267726,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The family of the British actress draw comfort from decision to help others</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Four receive organs from slain California officer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/25/officer.organ.donation/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/25/officer.organ.donation/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Organs donated by a slain Oakland, California, police officer saved four lives, and his donated tissue will enhance the lives of up to 50 others, the California Transplant Donor Network said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Donation chain has led to 10 kidney transplants</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/11/kidney.ten.transplants/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/11/kidney.ten.transplants/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A 28-year-old man from Michigan decided to donate a kidney to a total stranger, setting into motion a kidney swap that over many months has resulted in 10 people getting a donor organ--and the process is still ongoing.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Girl recovering after removal of 6 organs, tumor</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/10/multiple.organ.removal.tumor/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/10/multiple.organ.removal.tumor/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Seven-year-old Heather McNamara was heading home Tuesday, a month after surgery that temporarily removed organs from her digestive tract to allow removal of a tennis ball-size tumor.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ailing man's family finds kidney donor on Craigslist</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/18/kidney.donor.craigslist/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/18/kidney.donor.craigslist/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>One morning a couple of months ago at Westchester Medical Center, Dawn Verdick gave Daniel Flood one of her kidneys.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Face transplant patient regains self-confidence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/16/face.transplant.patient/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/16/face.transplant.patient/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The woman who received the first-ever near-total face transplant in the United States told her doctor she has regained her self-confidence, said Dr. Maria Siemionow, head of plastic surgery research at the Cleveland Clinic and leader of the transplant team.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fiance kidney donor: 'Of course we were a match'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/14/liz.kelly/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/14/liz.kelly/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>From songs to poems to sayings on the side of coffee cups, everyone tries to define love in words.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rihanna Helps 5-Year-Old Fan Look for Bone Marrow Donor</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20256800,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20256800,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>A transplant is the little girl's only chance for survival</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kidney odyssey takes Kenyan to India</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/27/multiple.kidney.transplants/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/27/multiple.kidney.transplants/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lorna Irungu sits on a hospital bed looking extremely frail. She has lupus and her kidneys continue to fail.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Donating bone marrow, saving lives</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/12/hm.bone.marrow/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/12/hm.bone.marrow/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Steve Karas and Matthew Welling share a special bond.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The top health stories of 2008</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/26/year.review.health/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/26/year.review.health/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Concerns about health care, food and vaccine safety added to the anxieties Americans felt this year. But it wasn't all doom and gloom -- medical advances in stem cell research have scientists hoping for better transplant surgeries in the future. Here are the top health stories of the year:</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HIV, Hep C found in four after organ transplant</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/dailydose/11/25/organ.transplant.hiv.hepc/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/dailydose/11/25/organ.transplant.hiv.hepc/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Four patients who received organ transplants in 2007 were found to have HIV and hepatitis C. Both infections came from the organ donor, who had tested negative for both illnesses. This was the first time that donated organs had infected their recipients with both HIV and hepatitis C, and the first time in 21 years an HIV infection has been transmitted in this way, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>What's life like after a kidney transplant?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/community.q.a/12/19/life.after.kidney.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/community.q.a/12/19/life.after.kidney.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>I'm a dialysis patient and I'd like to know what my life will be like once I receive a kidney.</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Liver Disease Plagues Obese Kids</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1839439,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1839439,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Legalizing the Organ Trade?
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1833858,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1833858,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Facing a shortage of kidneys and long hospital waiting lists, Singapore
ponders going where few countries have gone before: legalizing the buying
and selling of organs</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Debate: When to Declare Donors Dead</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1832688,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1832688,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Germans perform world's first double-arm transplant</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/02/arms.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/02/arms.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Doctors at the Technical University of Munich have conducted the world's first double-arm transplant on a 54-year-old farmer who had lost both his arms in an accident, officials said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Bonus: Wrestling and life-saving transplant bond father, son for life</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/the_bonus/07/30/hs.wreslter/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/the_bonus/07/30/hs.wreslter/index.html</guid><description>They sit inside the Saint Mary High gym, a musty brick building in Rutherford, N.J. The previous Friday, it was a similar edifice in nearby Clifton; the Thursday before that, St. Joe's in Montvale. After nearly two years of waiting for these February mornings -- all three of them here, alive, together -- Jim Lombard, 45, can't help but look at his two sons and exhale.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>N.J. to Require Organ Donor Decision</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1825896,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1825896,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In five years, New Jersey residents seeking driver's licenses will have to decide whether they want to become organ donors under a new first-of-its kind law</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Singapore Mulls Legal Kidney Trading</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1825049,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1825049,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Singapore is considering legalizing kidney trading to help meet demand for kidney transplants, the city-state's health minister said Monday</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NY Considers 'Organ-Removal' Ambulance</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1812130,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1812130,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York
City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a
different task altogether: saving the dead</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Growing a new organ</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/05/smbusiness/nlt_liver.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/05/smbusiness/nlt_liver.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>Some 15,000 Americans are on a waiting list for a liver transplant, and it is a grueling - and ghoulish - vigil. Most organs available for transplant come from someone who has died in an accident. And more than 6,000 patients will die waiting for a transplant each year.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Philippines: No Kidneys for Foreigners</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1735810,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1735810,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Foreigners will be permanently banned from receiving kidneys for transplant in the Philippines to prevent the country from becoming a major black market Asian center</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Barista donates kidney to save customer's life</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/03/27/heroes.andersen/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/03/27/heroes.andersen/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At a time when she really needed a miracle, Annamarie Ausnes found one in an unusual place. </description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rihanna 'Honored' to Be Part of Leukemia Miracle</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20183928,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20183928,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The singer says helping find a bone marrow donor for N.Y.C. mom Lisa Flynn keeps her "aware of how precious life really is"</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Woman Finds Marrow Donor &amp;amp;#8211; with Rihanna's Aid</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20182715,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20182715,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>A "guardian angel" comes forward after the singer tells PEOPLE about the donor search</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Doctor accused of hastening death for patient's organs</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/03/transplant.trial/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/03/transplant.trial/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A respected California transplant doctor faces charges he hastened a comatose man's death to retrieve his organs -- a far-reaching case that could impact the nation's organ donation industry.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Creating a Cord-Blood Lifeline</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1717283,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1717283,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Recognizing the treatment potential of stem cells harvested from discarded umbilical cords, some states are pushing to expand cord-blood donation
</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rihanna Helps N.Y.C Mom Find Bone Marrow Donor</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20180059,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20180059,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>It's been a busy week for Rihanna, but when the Grammy-winning singer learned about a leukemia-stricken New York City mom of two who desperately needs a marrow transplant, she immediately stepped forward to help.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Police parade kidney-snatching 'mastermind'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/kidney.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/kidney.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The alleged mastermind of a kidney transplant scheme in India has admitted to his involvement in about 300 transplants over the last 12 to 13 years, police said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>India's Black Market Organ Scandal</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1709006,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1709006,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Shocked but not surprised seems to sum up Indian reaction to a transplant ring harvesting kidneys from laborers</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:55:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>UK PM backs organ donation plan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/13/organs.uk/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/13/organs.uk/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he supports plans to allow hospitals to take dead patients' organs without their prior consent.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Richard Deitsch: Everson Walls: Q&amp;amp;A</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_deitsch/12/27/walls.qa/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_deitsch/12/27/walls.qa/index.html</guid><description>Last week SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed Everson Walls for the magazine's Q&amp;amp;A. The retired Cowboy donated a kidney to ex-teammate Ron Springs last February. Here are additional excepts from their conversation:</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tribute gala honors CNN Heroes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/12/06/heroes.show/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/12/06/heroes.show/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An Ecuadoran lawyer leading a landmark environmental lawsuit, a U.S. expatriate who encourages attendance at rural African schools and a Ugandan missionary who runs a boarding school for girls abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army were given special recognition at "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" Thursday night.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>My Sportsman: Everson Walls</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/magazine/specials/sportsman/2007/11/28/deitsch.sportsman/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/magazine/specials/sportsman/2007/11/28/deitsch.sportsman/index.html</guid><description>Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:17:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dutch TV's Kidney-Shaped Hoax</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1627591,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1627591,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A game-show in which kidney patients compete to win a donor organ -- it sounded too weird to be true. It was</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Renal-ity TV in the Netherlands</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1627066,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1627066,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In a new Dutch program, three desperately ill candidates will compete for a single donor kidney. Lifesaving reality, or a new low for reality TV? </description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kidney transplant fugitive caught in Mexico</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/25/kidney.fugitive/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/25/kidney.fugitive/index.html</guid><description>A Kentucky man who had been on the lam for more than a year after he was released from jail to donate a kidney to his son was captured in Mexico on Wednesday, a deputy U.S. Marshal said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tuskegee's ghosts: Fear hinders black marrow donation </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/07/bone.marrow/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/07/bone.marrow/index.html</guid><description>In 1982, transplant surgeon Dr. Clive Callender and his colleagues sat down to took a look at African-American organ donation numbers, and they were grim.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Your e-mails: How far you would go...</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/14/how.far.emails/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/14/how.far.emails/index.html</guid><description>What lengths would you go to for health or well-being? Would you get plastic surgery in Mexico? Or buy fertility drugs on the black market? Or get a potentially life-saving organ if you weren't certain of its origin?</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fugitive's son gets kidney transplant</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/06/kidney.son/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/06/kidney.son/index.html</guid><description>A Kentucky teenager whose dad went on the lam after being let out of jail to donate a kidney to his ailing son has successfully undergone a kidney transplant.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Would you give your kidney to a stranger?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/06/01/living.donors/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/06/01/living.donors/index.html</guid><description>Barry Mendez gave one of his kidneys to a stranger -- a good-natured act that has stirred concern among medical ethicists.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Advocates fight for transplant rules, registry</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/05/31/transplant.advocacy/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/05/31/transplant.advocacy/index.html</guid><description>Danny Boone donated a section of his liver to his brother, a gift of life that led to his death.</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 21:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fateful Fat Tuesday</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/28/profile.martel/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/28/profile.martel/index.html</guid><description>First Hurricane Katrina blew away his chosen hospital.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Transplant doctor climbs mountains</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/01/17/profile.ross/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/01/17/profile.ross/index.html</guid><description>Dr. Heather Ross, medical director of the cardiac transplant program at Toronto General Hospital, doesn't just recommend rehab, she lives it with her patients.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan's lucrative kidney trade</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/04/pakistan.organ/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/04/pakistan.organ/index.html</guid><description>Four years ago Mohammad Ashraf, desperate for money, sold one of his kidneys to repay a debt.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2004 04:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rabies-infected organs kill 3 patients</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/07/01/rabies.organ.transplant/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/07/01/rabies.organ.transplant/index.html</guid><description>Rabies spread by organs taken from an infected donor has killed three transplant recipients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2004 21:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brother, Can You Spare A...</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/05/26/343077/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/05/26/343077/index.htm</guid><description>If a patient is suffering from progressive primary biliary  cirrhosis, a fatal liver disease, there are two possible scenarios: (1) He dies, which until not long ago was the only outcome; (2) He re...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Novartis To Pigs: Keep Your Kidneys</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/04/16/301056/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/04/16/301056/index.htm</guid><description>Last month Swiss drug giant Novartis scaled back research on pig-to-human organ transplants, dealing a big blow to the hyped field of xenotransplants (the technical term for animal-human organ dona...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>READERS WANT THE FACTS ABOUT MUTUAL FUND RISK --             WITHOUT CONFUSING JARGON</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/08/01/205195/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/08/01/205195/index.htm</guid><description>You want all mutual fund prospectuses to contain a summary of a fund's risk. That is the view, at least, of 271 of the 305 readers who sent in the Money poll that accompanied June's "What You Need ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE INSPIRATIONAL COURAGE OF A SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/06/01/86640/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/06/01/86640/index.htm</guid><description>Here's applause for your article on the chronically ill child, which I read as the parent of a child with kidney disease to whom I donated a kidney. I hope your article increases the awareness of t...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHEN YOUR CHILD IS BORN ILL</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/04/01/86464/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/04/01/86464/index.htm</guid><description>It's 8 p.m., and in the spacious three-bedroom home of Kevin and Cheryl Clarke in Edmonds, Wash., 15 miles north of Seattle, six-year-old Jeffrey is getting ready to go to bed. For Jeffrey, this me...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>DECIDING WHO PAYS TO SAVE LIVES Companies are being pressed to pay for the latest, costliest medical care. It's hard to say no w</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/05/27/65863/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/05/27/65863/index.htm</guid><description>* EACH NEW ADVANCE in high-technology medicine sharpens the debate over tortuous ethical questions -- who should receive treatment with these expensive new technologies, who should pay, and who sho...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 1985 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>