http://iheartguts.com learn more about your guts Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:24:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://iheartguts.com/kidney-for-ipad http://iheartguts.com/kidney-for-ipad#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:36:25 +0000 gutsy http://iheartguts.com/?p=5023 What would it take to get you to give up one of your kidneys? A small car? A trip to Fiji? The health of someone you love? For one young man in China, all he needed in exchange for his kidney was an iPad 2. That, and $3,400 bucks. Folks are having a field day on Twitter, here are some of my favorite tweets: “He should’ve waited for the iPad 3″ by @therealnickmack and “I’ve had a productive week, Got a new Kidney and managed to get rid of a faulty iPad” by @sickipediabot.

]]> http://iheartguts.com/kidney-for-ipad/feed 0 http://iheartguts.com/organs-in-the-news http://iheartguts.com/organs-in-the-news#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:08:36 +0000 gutsy http://iheartguts.wordpress.com/?p=671 Ever since a woman successfully donated a kidney through her vagina, news of faulty gallbladders and bum kidneys being removed in this fashion have surfaced. Who knew you could give birth to a kidney? Apparently the donor (in the dark grey sweatsuit at right) had previously had a hysterectomy, so that pesky uterus wasn’t in the way. The recovery time is much shorter, but she sure doesn’t look too thrilled. Her niece, however, who got the kidney, looks pretty darn happy. Let’s hope her body doesn’t reject it! In less titillating but no less sensational news, doctors have developed a new artificial liver that helps dire patients hang on a little longer while waiting for a transplant.   [photo via CNN}

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