26 operations, 13 kidneys: hope to few with little

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Mon, 12/14/2009 - 09:42

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify....

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