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Living kidney donors and their recipients would like to share more health information before the transplant surgery, a new survey indicates. Currently, patients must be informed if they’re at risk for acquiring hepatitis or HIV from a donor organ, researchers write in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
An airplane in flight is one of the worst places to have a medical emergency, even if there’s a doctor on board. Medical supplies and drugs are limited. There’s often little space for a physician to work or for anyone to render first aid. Critical resources may be hours away. The New England Journal of Medicine has published a review for doctors of the types of urgent problems they might encounter on board and some of the challenges they’ll face if they try to treat them.
