Colorado closes funeral biz run by body parts broker after cremated remains turn out to be concrete
Colorado officials indefinitely shut down the funeral home and crematory this week of a woman who runs a side business selling donated body parts from the same building. In its order, issued Monday, the state's Office of Funeral Home and Crematory Registration suspended operations at ...
Japan is back to the Stone Age when it comes down to transplants
Is Japan still in the medical Stone Age? A look at American depictions of the medical profession might make you think so. Last Tuesday, NHK had a bunch of celebrities sitting around and rapturously discussing the American hospital soap opera "ER" and its mature ...
Six years after the implementation of the Organ Transplant Law, moves are afoot to alter one of its core conditions for using organs from brain-dead donors -- the donor's prior consent. Heading the movement is Taro Kono, a member of the House of Representatives who ...
Taro Kono, a lawmaker of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, has drafted legislation to lift the ban on children under 15 becoming organ donors after being declared brain dead, according to LDP sources. The draft says organs "may be donated only with the consent of ...
Former Foreign Minister Yohei Kono was discharged from the hospital Sunday, after undergoing an operation in April to receive part of his son's liver. At around noon, a smiling Kono walked at an easy pace to the exit of the Shinshu University Hospital in Matsumoto, ...
Transplant teaches Taro Kono a lesson
Although Taro Kono was determined from the beginning to save his father's life by donating part of his liver, the 39-year-old lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party said the decision-making process was tough for his family, even with a fair amount of knowledge about ...
Former Foreign Minister Yohei Kono received part of his son's liver in a successful transplant operation that was completed early Wednesday. The operation was performed at Shinshu University Hospital in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. The surgical team, headed by Seiji Kawasaki, started the operation on Kono, 65, ...
Surgeons at Shinshu University Hospital in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, started a transplant operation Tuesday in which former Foreign Minister Yohei Kono would receive part of his son's liver. The operation on the 65-year-old Kono, whose hepatitis C condition and liver cirrhosis have deteriorated, was expected ...
Former Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, who is suffering from hepatitis C, may undergo a transplant operation Tuesday in which he will receive part of his son's liver, hospital sources said Monday. Tests carried out Monday on Taro Kono's liver and cardiopulmonary functions show that the ...
House of Representatives member Taro Kono entered a hospital Tuesday for tests to determine if he can give part of his liver to his father, former Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, who has hepatitis C, his office said. Taro Kono, a 39-year-old parliamentary secretary at the ...
