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Use of stem cells for neural transplantation User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 13 August 2008 Neutral transplantation has been used to study and promote the regenerative potential of the brain after an ischemic insult. Read more...   Non-surgical Hair Restoration User Rating: / 0 Monday, 30 June 2008 Though surgical hair restoration is a viable option, it may not be suitable for everybody, because of different medical reasons. Along with such candidates, there are people who do not prefer the option of surgery, or those who may wish their surgical restoration to look even better. Read more...   Researchers Attempting To Mimic The Way A Parasite Manipulates The Immune System User Rating: / 0 Saturday, 12 April 2008 One day it may be possible to mimic the tactics used by parasites to trick the body into accepting transplanted tissues or organs. Read more...   Organ Transplant Waiting List Reaches High In U.S. User Rating: / 0 Friday, 11 April 2008 Donate Life America and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) are using the month of April to educate Americans about the number of lives that could be saved and advanced through organ, eye and tissue transplants. Read more...   Research Presented At ISHLT Shows Promise Of Addressing Critical Organ Shortage User Rating: / 0 Friday, 11 April 2008 Data from experimental work on the use of organs from cardiac arrested donors is being presented this week at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation's 28th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions. Read more...   US Hospital Performs First Six-Way Kidney Swap Transplant User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 09 April 2008 Surgeons at the The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, have carried out the first simultaneous six-way kidney transplant operation involving six donors and six recipients that were paired using a "domino" system that relies on altruistic donation to facilitate better matching of... Read more...   Government Announces Appointment Of New National Clinical Director For Transplant, UK User Rating: / 0 Friday, 04 April 2008 The Department of Health announced the appointment of a new 'transplant tsar' to drive forward Government plans to increase the number of people who can benefit from an organ transplant. Read more...   Lung Transplants Not Dangerous For Children With Cystic Fibrosis, After All - Experts Say Recent Stu User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 01 April 2008 Responding to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which concluded that lung transplants were damaging for children with cystic fibrosis, articles published in the newest issue of Pediatric Transplantation refute the conclusions and argue that the greatly influential research... Read more...   Surgeons Use Transplant Surgery To Remove Tumour User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 25 March 2008 In a 15-hour operation, surgeons in the US used transplant surgery to remove and modify multiple abdominal organs so they could reach and cut out a tumour in a female patient who had a infrequent form of cancer. Read more...   Transplant Societies Protest FDA Policy In American Journal Of Transplantation User Rating: / 0 Friday, 21 March 2008 In an Open Letter to the Federal Drug Administrations (FDA), which appears in the April issue of the American Journal of Transplantation (AJT), the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) clarify how FDA policy is thwarting the field of... Read more...   European Group For Blood And Marrow Transplantation Annual Congress User Rating: / 0 Friday, 07 March 2008 EBMT, the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, will host over 4,000 top scientists, physicians, nurses, caregivers, patients and their families, and others during its 5-day Annual Congress in Florence, Italy. Read more...   LifeCycle Pharma Announces Positive Top-Line Results Of Phase II Clinical Trial Of LCP-Tacro In Stab User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 04 March 2008 LifeCycle Pharma A/S (OMX: LCP), announced positive to top-line results from a completed Phase II clinical trial for LCP-Tacro in stable kidney transplant patients. Read more...   Two New Lungs Might Be Better Than One User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 04 March 2008 Researchers in France and the US have concluded that for younger patients in the final stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), survival is lengthened by transplanting both lungs compared to only one lung. Read more...   Survival Rates Exceed National Averages For UCSF Heart, Liver And Lung Transplant Programs User Rating: / 0 Monday, 03 March 2008 One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically weighty levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). Read more...   Transplantation Boosts Survival Rates For Young Kidney Failure Patients, Canada User Rating: / 0 Monday, 03 March 2008 More young people in Canada diagnosed with kidney failure are surviving, and one key explanation is an increase in the use of kidney transplantation in young patients. Read more...   Race, Insurance Status Affect Access To Transplantation And Kidney Disease Treatment User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 28 February 2008 Universal access to health care might help to overcome racial and ethnic barriers to treatment for kidney disease, suggest 2 studies in the March 2008 issue of Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Read more...   UK's Oldest Existing Motoring Club On Track To Boost Life-saving Campaign User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 28 February 2008 The country's oldest existing motorsport club is giving a boost to the drive to support more people to become potential lifesavers by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register. Read more...   Calcineurin Inhibitor-Sparing Regimens In Solid Organ Transplantation: Focus On Improving Renal Func User Rating: / 0 Sunday, 24 February 2008 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Clinical solid organ transplantation is a valuable success story, and when constant failure of the kidney, liver, heart, or lung occurs, replacement by transplant is the preferred treatment option. Read more...   Device That Measures Optimum State Of An Organ Prior To Transplanting Has Been Patented User Rating: / 0 Friday, 22 February 2008 Ikerlan-IK4 (CIC microGUNE Microfluidics Unit - the Basque Micro and Nanotechnologies Research Centre) has patented a device that enables the verification of the optimum conditions for a human organ preceding to its transplant. Read more...   The National Kidney Registry And NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Announce User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 21 February 2008 The National Kidney Registry and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced the successful completion of 3 simultaneous living donor transplants in one of the nation's first triple swaps involving a donor chain. Read more...   Business In The Community To Encourage More People To Save A Life, UK Transplant User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 21 February 2008 Staff and customers at hundreds of the UK's top businesses are being offered the opportunity to become lifesavers thanks to a new partnership between Business in the Community and UK Transplant to inspire more people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR). Read more...   Kidney Transplant Chain Initiated At NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 21 February 2008 On Valentine's Day, one of the nation's first three-way living-donor kidney transplant chains was initiated by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and its medical partner The Rogosin Institute. Read more...   New Independent Research Study Indicates That Cylex's ImmuKnow Test May Identify Kidney Transplant P User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 21 February 2008 Cylex, Inc. Read more...   Australian Medical Association Urges Organ Donors To Make Their Wishes Known User Rating: / 0 Monday, 18 February 2008 During Australian Organ Donor Awareness Week, the AMA is urging Australians who wish to be organ donors to make their intent clear by registering as a donor and talking to their family about their wishes. Read more...   Blacks Awaiting Lung Transplants More Likely To Die Or Be Denied Than Whites User Rating: / 0 Saturday, 16 February 2008 Blacks with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were less likely to receive a lung transplant and more likely to die or be removed from the transplant list than whites, according to Columbia University Medical Center researchers. Read more...   Book's Claim That Personhood Begins At Conception Does Not Match With 'Messiness Of Biology,' Opinio User Rating: / 0 Friday, 15 February 2008 Robert George, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, and colleague Christopher Tollefsen in their book, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, use science to argue that all research involving embryos and production of multiple embryos for fertility treatments should be banned; but, their... Read more...   Putting The Beat Back Into Weak Hearts User Rating: / 0 Friday, 15 February 2008 A new device could put the beat back into weak hearts - and free patients from a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs. Current implanted heart assist devices function by sucking blood from the ventricles and then expelling it into downstream vessels. Read more...   Transplant Hope For Diabetes Patients, UK User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 12 February 2008 A revolutionary new treatment will offer new hope for a group of people with Type 1 diabetes, Health Minister Ann Keen announced. Read more...   Body Art Delivers Hard-Hitting Message About Shortage Of Donated Organs, UK User Rating: / 0 Friday, 08 February 2008 The lack of donated organs for transplants is to be highlighted in a national press advertising campaign featuring eye-catching body art. The images feature a male and female model with a picture of a heart painted on their bodies under the message: 'You've got what it takes to save a life'. Read more...   Impact Of Donor Organ Allocation System Discussed By Mayo Clinic Proceedings Contributors User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 07 February 2008 Liver transplant is a life saving treatment option for people with end-stage liver disease. Unfortunately, the need for donor livers far exceeds the supply. Each year only about one-third of people who need a donor liver will receive one, and some patients die while waiting. Read more...

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