By Stu on Apr 9, 2006 in kidney, transplant, renal, Dialysis In the News, Dialysis | 1 Comment
The Epoch times is reporting that the long persecuted Falun Gong religious sect are being used as an organ bank for China’s thriving organ transplant industry.
According to some reports, 15,000 to 20,000 organ transplants are performed in China every year, including approximately 5,000 kidney transplants.
Advertising organ transplant matching and surgical services by Chinese hospitals has […]
By Stu on Apr 6, 2006 in kidney, transplant, renal, Dialysis | 0 Comments
Article is here
Apparently, Canada is starting to do what’s called a “paired Kidney Transplant”, where kidneys are “swapped” between family members or friends of other families.
For example, if I need a kidney, and your wife is a match, and you need a kidney transplant, and my (lovely) wife is a match for you, we all […]
By Stu on Apr 6, 2006 in kidney, transplant, renal, Dialysis, Annoyances | 2 Comments
Where the hell is my transplant?
By Stu on Feb 21, 2006 in Dialysis, Annoyances | 3 Comments
A little birdie contacted therenalunit.com today, suggesting that a major public hospital in an Australian capital city is in the process of inking a deal with a large (think multinational) private dialysis supplier, to send somewhere in the vicinity of twenty public patients to dialyse in a center run by the private dialysis supplier.
No only […]
By Stu on Feb 5, 2006 in Dialysis | 0 Comments
Please see the addition to this post.
By Stu on Feb 4, 2006 in Dialysis | 1 Comment
Well I recieved many and varied responses to my post “So your friend / family member has got their kidney transplant!“, unfortunately, at this stage, only one person has had the stones to comment in the blog.
As a result of this, I would like to issue a challenge to all family members and friends of […]