LONDON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- British Health Secretary Alan Johnson said Monday he supports an organ donor task force recommendation against an opt-out system for organ donation.
NEW YORK, July 23 (UPI) -- New York officials say family members may no longer veto an individual's decision to be an organ donor.
LONDON, July 17 (UPI) -- All United Kingdom residents should automatically be considered organ donors unless they specifically object, the country's head doctor said Tuesday.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 18 (UPI) -- People who are registered organ donors can save on their own funeral costs thanks to a new promotion from a funeral company in the Netherlands.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are studying ways to reimburse living donors for some of their out-of-pocket expenses when they choose to donate an organ.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- A new U.S.-based organ donor club has potential recipients anteing up their own organs for membership while doctors say the plan is unethical.
SAN DIEGO, May 1 (UPI) -- About 5,000 people die annually because of a lack of U.S. organ donors and scientists suggest that's a fault of the nation's "default" on donations.
LONDON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Britain's Department of Health and U.K. Transplant Tuesday reported a record number of organ transplants -- 2,867 -- were carried out in 2003-2004.
WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. House has approved a bill to encourage more live organ donations by reimbursing donors for travel and giving related expenses.
WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- A once-obscure natural antibiotic found on a remote pacific island 30 years ago is showing promise for the long-term treatment of organ transplant patients. Stanford University studies indicate the drug, sirolimus, controls the immune response of the orga
