Friday 2 January 2015

Transplant candidates often struggle to accept kidneys

By Ronnie Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The night before Ronald Herrick was to have surgery to remove his kidney so he could give it to his identical twin, he received a note from his brother whose life depended on the transplant. “Get out of here and go home,” Richard Herrick wrote. “I am here, and I am going to stay,” Ronald Herrick responded. The exchange between the twins culminated in the first successful long-term transplant of a human organ in 1954. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

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