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The Daily Dispatch has a good article on the growing number of muti and ritual murders.Daily Dispatch Online:THE use of human body parts for medicinal purposes – “muti”, derived from the word meaning tree – is based in the belief that it is possible to appropriate the life force of one person through its literal consumption of another.

Sex education and emotional distance compete with multiple organ transplants for attention on "Grey’s Anatomy." Extra credit: Awkwardness flared between Derek and Meredith after an article about their clinical trial — on which she arguably took the lead — credited only him for the work.

A new therapy developed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center improves transplant rates and outcomes for patients awaiting living- and deceased-donor kidney transplantation, according to a study published in the July 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Kidney transplants should be carried out during the day if possible. At least this is the conclusion suggested by a survey just published by urologists and internists at the University of Bonn (Transplantation Proceedings, vol. 40, p. 1341 ff.).

New analysis of the Heidelberg “Collaborative Transplant Study”: Men and Women benefit from gender specific transplants / Publication in “The Lancet”. The gender of donor and recipient plays a larger role in kidney transplants than previously assumed.

My friend and I revisited this topic today and I asked if she was for or against organ trading. Her answer was quite straight forward; she was for it - only if no lives are being sacrificed in the process because it is pointless to sacrifice a life just to save another one.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) — Treatment with the anti-rejection drug sirolimus may lead to increased risk of diabetes in kidney transplant patients, say researchers who analyzed data on about 20,000 Medicare patients who had kidney transplants between 1995 and 2003.

An often asymptomatic condition—systolic dysfunction, or decreased pumping of the heart—poses an increased risk of death for patients on kidney transplant waiting lists, according to a study appearing in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).