<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Stranger donates kidney to 8-year-old Atlanta Girl : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Stranger donates kidney to 8-year-old Atlanta Girl : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stranger donates kidney to 8-year-old Atlanta Girl]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51797/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The 8-year-old on the pamphlet needed a kidney transplant, and Bolan knew she could help. She did a quick Web search on the surgery and talked it over with her husband. Then she made a phone call to offer one of her kidneys to Sarah d**kman.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Cowboy Ron Springs awaiting kidney from a teammate.]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7503/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Found a match in Everson Walls.  Transplant should happen &quot;any day now&quot;.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good news story... for a change.]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/56046/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Barista donates kidney to save customer's life <br/><br/> Last fall, Ausnes, 55, was one of nearly 75,000 Americans in need of a kidney. Today, she is recovering from a successful kidney transplant -- thanks to her local Starbucks barista.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kidney Donation Competition TV Show]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21621/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In a new Dutch reality TV show, premiering next week, a terminally ill woman will decide who out of three young patients will get her kidney.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Kidney Stone Disease Projected Due To Global Warming]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68783/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Global warming is likely to increase the proportion of the population affected by kidney stones by expanding the higher-risk region known as the &quot;kidney-stone belt&quot; into neighboring states.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother needing transplant is refused dead daughter's kidney]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57965/1/</link><description><![CDATA[With her mother desperately in need of a transplant, Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys.<br/><br/>So when the 21-year-old died after an asthma attack, it seemed that the tragedy would at least give Rachel Leake a chance of a healthy new life.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concert Interrupted to Inform Transplant Patient His Heart is Ready]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19813/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Police had to track him down via cell phone coordinates.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employee gives boss a kidney]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19852/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A British woman got the ultimate gift from a loyal employee -- a new kidney.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kidney stolen from 'Bodies' exhibition]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/8548/1/</link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why anyone would want a plastinated kidney but who knows.  More info on the exhibit can be found in an article <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/4886/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> that Bornbad posted awhile back.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pakistan's &quot;kidney bazaar&quot; thrives]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5677/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A kidney nets the donor $2,500, sometimes less than half that amount, while recipients -- some 2,000 a year -- pay $6,000 to $12,000.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch Kidney-Donor Reality Show is a Hoax]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/22470/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Dutch television broadcaster BNN provoked an international uproar this week when it announced plans to air a live TV game show pitting rival kidney patients against one another in pursuit of a donor organ. But when the show ran on Friday, it proved to be a hoax.<br/><br/>Update to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/entertainment/television/l/21621/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kidney Racket Exposed in India]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48623/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Poor Indians are being tricked into selling their kidneys for up to $2,500.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctor saves little girl with Do-It-Yourself kidney machine]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/71289/1/</link><description><![CDATA[She was too small for even a children's dialysis machine, so her doctor built one from scratch in his garage.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother's anger turns to delight after her baby survives an abortion]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/64373/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Finley Crampton really shouldn't be here. Although his parents would have loved another child, they knew their baby could inherit a life-threatening kidney condition &#8211; and they couldn't take the risk.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesman Donates His Kidney]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37815/1/</link><description><![CDATA[...after trying to sell the guy a vacuum.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kidney Snatching Gang Arrested]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48334/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Police arrested five people, including a doctor, in the suburbs of Delhi for allegedly removing kidneys from young men without their permission and selling them to wealthy patients.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Runs Out for Transplant Teen]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45007/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., died Thursday just a few hours after her insurer, Cigna Health Care, approved a procedure it had previously described as &quot;too experimental&quot;. They had originally agreed to a transplant but then changed their minds when the accountants felt they knew more medicine than the doctors.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transplant Patient A 'Mess' After HIV Diagnosis]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41866/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Woman was not told her kidney was high risk, attorney says.<br/><br/>Follow-up to marli's <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/health/l/41547/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> post</a>..and reports that all were fully aware of their high-risk donor, <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSN13630047" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kidney donation ends couple's separation]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19105/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A couple who grew apart and had agreed to split up were reunited by a life-threatening crisis.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[An end to the need for dialysis?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/72712/1/</link><description><![CDATA[MELBOURNE scientists have developed a drug that may prevent a condition responsible for up to 45% of all deaths in the Western world. The drug prevents the spread of fibrosis, the scarring of organs that exasperates the severity of many diseases, including kidney diseases.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organ Donation Show Hoax]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22375/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Presenters said they were trying to pressure the government into reforming organ donation laws.]]></description></item></channel></rss>