Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tide him over until he could find work, he agreed to sell his blood. Velu was taken to Yellamma Dasappa, a private hospital, and sedated after admission. When he was discharged eight days later, he had a 25-cm scar on his side. He later learned that his left kidney was missing. Within days, nine other victims told police a similar tale...
...national statute outlawing the sale of human organs from live donors was finally put into effect. In Bangalore police arrested Dr. K.S. Siddaraj, head of nephrology at the government-run Victoria Hospital. He was accused of having referred his poorer patients to private hospitals in the city as potential kidney donors and of receiving a 15% commission on every resulting transplant. Also arrested were a general practitioner, Dr. Syed Audil Ahmed, and two alleged middlemen. They were charged with having induced or deceived an estimated 1,000 poor villagers into donating kidneys to recipients from India, Singapore, Malaysia and Saudi...
...theft, fraud and conspiracy; if convicted, they could be jailed for as long as 10 years. Siddaraj, who denied any involvement in the transplants, was released on $6,600 bail. The other suspects, still in custody, claim their actions were legal, as the villagers had agreed to sell their kidneys. In a Bangalore police station last week, Ahmed described his role as one of finding recipients in Saudi Arabia. He told Time, ``I thought that I was doing a service to kidney patients and that the government was earning foreign exchange. I was thinking of asking for an income...
With this device, researchers in Sweden and Britain showed that lead in the bones of workers exposed to high levels of lead may result in kidney damage, Hu said. But his team was the first to show that modest exposure to lead among the general population may also harm the body...
...currently documenting the effect of high levels of lead on organ systems such as the fetal nervous system. In addition, he is trying to prove a correlation between lead and problems such as dementia in the elderly, hypertension and kidney failure...