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Frontiers Of Medicine

Date released

1965

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

319

NoS ID

350486

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Machines are playing a great part in modern experimental medicine, from heart resuscitation to artificial kidneys to a combination of X-ray and tv for stomach action vision.

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Preparation of Rat Kidney Cortex Slices (1978 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 9 min.

The kidneys of a freshly killed rat are taken and placed in cold Crebbs Ringer bicarbonate solution. The kidneys are halved and then sliced using a perspex block and a tissue slicing knife. The cortex slices...

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Doctor struck off for buying kidneys (1990)

Genre

News report; Press conference

James Matthews reports on millionaire Harley Street doctor Raymond Crockett being struck off for paying people to donate kidneys. Includes Raymond Crockett giving a statement outside the GMC. 2 surgeons...

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Portsea Island Discs: Maurice Slapak, transplant surgeon (1985)

This week, Portsea Island Discs brings to the programme one of Britain’s most famous transplant surgeons, working in Portsmouth. His name: Dr Maurice Slapak, and Andy Ferriss talks to him to know more...

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Kidneys-for-sale scandal (1989)

Genre

Interview

Michael Bewick, London surgeon, at the centre of a kidneys-for-sale row is calling on the Government to set up a special panel to interview potential donors to make sure doctors aren’t duped. He admits he...

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Work of the Kidneys (1972 Film)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Structure and function of the renal system. Animated drawings and laboratory experiments show formation of urine, regulation of blood composition, and functioning of the bladder. This is a re-edited version,...

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Hammersmith Hospital’s kidney unit to close (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Dr Gordon Williams on the closure of Hammersmith Hospital’s kidney unit through lack of funds. Male interviewer not identified.

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Organ donation proposals (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview on a bill to secure vital organs (specifically kidneys) from the clinically dead, without the need to seek permission from next of kin. Only 5% of people currently carry kidney donor cards, and...

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India: A Pound of Flesh - Selling Kidneys to Survive (2006)

Subject

Development studies; Medical sciences

Distribution

DVD

Samantha Grant heads to Chennai in southern India to explore the illicit kidney trade. Travelling between India’s high-tech center of Bangalore and the slums to the south, Grant spoke to government...

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Kidney International

Date released

1971

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

80

NoS ID

351196

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: A kidney has a maximum life of ten hours on removal from a donor. To find a suitable recipient require accurate tissue-typing and fast data matching. A European network makes donor kidneys more...

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