September 6, 2002 - The director of (NYC) Mount Sinai hospital's suspended live donor liver transplant program has stepped down, a week after the program was fined for 41 patient care violations, the hospital said. Story from AP/Yahoo.

April 1, 2002 - A patient at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City who was a living donor for his brother for a partial liver transplant died three days after surgery in January of this year. Transplant surgeons around the country are stepping back to try to prevent this tragedy from being repeated. Story from AMNews.

January 30, 2002 - Recent transplantation news items and stories:

• A New England man wanted to donate a kidney to a neighbor that was on dialysis, but he wasn't the correct blood type. To beat biology, he anonymously donated a kidney to a stranger so that his neighbor would be moved up the waiting list so she could get her kidney sooner. Story from the Portland Herald Press. (link is no longer available)
  
  
  
• A California prison inmate serving 14 years for robbery received a heart transplant earlier this month, renewing a debate about who deserves to get desperately needed organs. Story from AP/Yahoo. (link is no longer available)
  
  
  
• Musician Freddy Fender recently received a kidney donated by his daughter. Fender's legal name is Baldemar Huerta. Fender was recently nominated for his third Grammy in the Best Latin Pop album category for the album "La Musica de Baldemar Huerta." (link is no longer available)
  

December 31, 2001 - Here are two human interest stories from local papers about living donor kidney transplants:

• "Dialysis patient gets a hard-to-refuse offer from a stranger" - story from the Billings Gazette. (link is no longer available)
  
  
  
• "Couple shares ultimate gift" - story from the Denver Post. (link is no longer available)

Here is RenalWEB's Topic Page on Transplantation.


[This message has been edited by Gary Peterson (edited 09-07-2002).]