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Employer Tells Hero Kidney Donor to Move or Lose Job

(June 16) -- When school social worker Dan Coyne donated a kidney to save the life of a woman he barely knew, he became a hero. The principal of his school declared March 23 "Dan Coyne Day" and incorporated his gift into the teaching curriculum. Thursday, Coyne will be honored at a dinner for school social workers. But...

Chain of Kidney Transplants Gives 14 Patients New Life

WASHINGTON (June 15) -- Members of a human "domino chain" met for the first time today, representing most of the 28 organ donors and patients involved in a world-record series of linked kidney transplants. Many of the patients were ailing from kidney disease but had been unable to find a match in a kidney donated by...