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Lawson Health Research Institute
Researchers get grant to study long-term implications of being donating kidney
June 15th, 2005
A team of researchers at the Lawson Health Research Institute has received a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to conduct a 3-year prospective study on the long-term implications of living kidney donation. Currently in Canada there are over 3,500 people waiting for organ transplants and each year, nearly 150 people die waiting for an organ to become available. Living donation is thought to be a way to close the gap between the number of people on transplant waiting lists and the number of available organs. Living organ donation remains a complex ethical and medical issue. According to Dr. Amit Garg, scientist at Lawson and...
Source: Physician Law Weekly (2005-06-15)
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