Science news articles about 'kidney transplant program'

... medical director of Cedars-Sinai's Kidney Transplant Program and of the Division of Nephrology, began studying ... United States but fewer than 18,000 kidney transplants are performed each year, in part ...

... man in July of 2007 and led to 10 transplantations coordinated during 8 months by two ... 25-state Alliance for Paired Donation and Incompatible Kidney Transplantation Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. ...

... Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims on behalf of five patients alleging that the HMO mishandled its kidney transplant program, endangering lives and causing deaths.

... donor matching, specifically, that the pursuit of living kidney donation may be based less on information relevant ... donor-recipient pairs. In a recent survey of US kidney transplant programs, 70 percent ...