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Study: Donating a kidney doesn’t boost risk of premature death

By Caitlin Hagan CNN Medical Associate Producer Live kidney donation is a safe, effective procedure that poses little risk for the premature death of the donor, reports a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That's welcome news to the more than 106,000 people on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) transplant list [...]
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