Vital Signs: Health Risk for Kidney Donors Is Low, Research Finds
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 15:28
in Health & Medicine
A new study of kidney donors found that having only one kidney did not affect long term survival and that the risk of dying from the surgery itself was very low.
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