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Mixed-race patients struggle to find marrow donors
May 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- If Nick Glasgow were white, he would have a nearly 90 percent chance of finding a matching bone marrow donor who could cure his leukemia.
Unrelated and mismatched cord blood transplantation can still help children with deadly conditions
Feb 13, 2009 |
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An unrelated cord blood transplant, even from a mismatched donor, can be effective in treating children with a host of life-threatening diseases and disorders including cancer, sickle cell anemia, and other genetic diseases, ...
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New tools can better predict successful kidney transplant outcomes
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Kidney transplants are the best available therapy for end stage renal disease. Because of the shortage of deceased organ donors, living donor transplantation is rapidly growing and has the advantage of improved outcomes over ...
Marrow program tapping into Web for donors
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Organizers of a Web-based bone marrow donation campaign said they're looking to expand their efforts to recruit more South Asians for the U.S. registry.
New computer models successfully link donors and kidney transplant patients
Mar 11, 2009 |
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New computer models can now link strangers in a life-saving chain of kidney transplants, promising to increase the number of transplants and overcome obstacles posed by logistics or donors who renege, a team of researchers ...
'Nature vs. nurture' study of deceased donor pairs in kidney transplantation
Apr 22, 2009 |
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The implications of a new study could improve the outcomes, and potentially survival rates, for some of the thousands of individuals who undergo kidney transplants each year. The study concluded that donor-related risk factors, ...
Organ donor club grows, has critics
Jun 15, 2006 |
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A new U.S.-based organ donor club has potential recipients anteing up their own organs for membership while doctors say the plan is unethical.
Duke Studies New Approach in Fetal Transplants for Metabolic Disorders
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers say a new development in cord blood transplants for inherited metabolic disorders may be curative for some babies who are treated while still in the womb.
Stem cell study seeks to wean non-related transplant recipients from anti-rejection drugs
May 28, 2009 |
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The immunosuppressive drugs required by organ transplant recipients after surgery can have serious side effects with prolonged use, including infection, heart disease and cancer. In an effort to reduce, or potentially eliminate ...
Male kidneys for men only?
Jul 09, 2008 |
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The gender of donor and recipient plays a larger role in kidney transplants than previously assumed. Female donor kidneys do not function as well in men – due to their smaller size. Women have a higher risk of rejecting a ...
Chain results in 10 kidney swaps among strangers
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When Matthew Jones decided to donate a kidney to a stranger, the Michigan father of five had no idea he'd be starting a lifesaving, "pay it forward" chain. His kidney donation to a Phoenix woman in ...
New protocol streamlines therapy that makes more kidney transplants possible
Jul 17, 2008 |
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A new therapy developed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center improves transplant rates and outcomes for patients awaiting living- and deceased-donor kidney transplantation, according to a study published in the July 17 issue of ...
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