U.S. Transplant Centers’ Informed Consent Forms Are Deficient
The authors examined written informed consent forms from 148 U.S. transplant centers to assess their compliance with OPTN and CMS regulations passed in 2007. Results: …most centers’ evaluation...
View ArticleRisks of Being Born With Solitary Kidney
When the long-term risks of donating a kidney are discussed, too often someone will bring up that folks born with one kidney are ‘fine’. So I wanted to share this: Children with a solitary kidney...
View ArticleMarketing Masquerading as Journalism
If there’s one thing the Cleveland Clinic is good at, it’s self-promotion. And in the past couple of years, they’ve used The Plain Dealer’s Angela Townsend as their messenger (via cleveland.com)....
View ArticleWeill Cornell Medical College’s Living Kidney Donor Resources, part i
Google Alerts dropped Cornell’s website into my inbox recently (which means they must’ve updated it). First is this, the typical pro-living donor propaganda we’ve come to expect, which includes: The...
View ArticleProteinuria in living kidney donors
While this letter to the editor is from an Iranian transplant surgeon, therefore his prime intent is to defend Iran’s legalized kidney market (which is indefensible, imo), he makes some interesting...
View ArticleNo folks, it’s not as easy as “save a life, get a new belly button”
So a transplant surgeon is using the pages of The Atlantic to promote living donation. You know, five years of this BS has been exhausting. No matter what seems to happen, the transplant industry keeps...
View ArticleHow Not to Define Safety, Transplant Industry
The focus of this Egyptian transplant center study was the 8 living kidney donors who experienced kidney failure, as opposed to their overall 2000 LKDs. In the discussion section, however, the authors...
View ArticleShipping Living Donor Kidneys Is Just Fine
It’s not unusual to hear of a potential living kidney donor traveling to their would-be recipient’s transplant center for testing and surgery. While this benefits the transplant center (money &...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Luis Fabregas
Last month, Luis Fabregas from the Pittsburgh Tribune penned this article about the implementation of OPTN’s newest living donor evaluation requirements. I sent Mr. Fabregas my thoughts on his article,...
View ArticleAbout Kelly Ripa’s Living Kidney Donor Remark
My twitter comments (yes, I miscounted): The post About Kelly Ripa’s Living Kidney Donor Remark appeared first on Living Donors Are People Too.
View ArticleKidney Donors’ Risk of End-stage Renal Disease – AGAIN
Recently, a media blitz heralded the arrival of an end-stage renal disease prediction calculator for potential living kidney donors, backed up by a prestigious publication in the New England Journal of...
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