Kidney donors suffer few ill effects from life-giving act, landmark study finds
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 22:07
in Health & Medicine
In a landmark study of more than 80,000 live kidney donors from across the United States, Johns Hopkins researchers have found the procedure carries very little medical risk and that, in the long term, people who donate one of their kidneys are likely to live just as long as those who have two healthy ones...
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