Donor
hideA donor in general is a person that donates something voluntarily. Usually used to represent a form of pure altruism but sometimes used when the payment for a service is recognised by all parties as representing less than the value of the donation and that the motivation is altruistic. In business law, a donor is someone who is giving the gift, and a donee the person receiving the gift.
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News tagged with donor
A light touch: Iron complexes as efficient catalysts for the light-driven extraction of hydrogen from water
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen is a promising alternative energy carrier that can be efficiently converted into electrical energy in fuel cells. One hurdle to the introduction of sustainable hydrogen technology is the fact that ...
Intelligent blood bags
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Have the blood supplies got too warm? Do they match the patient?s blood group? In the future, these kinds of questions will be answered by intelligent radio nodes attached to blood bags. These ...
First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful
Nov 16, 2009 |
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More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...
Left side grafting is procedure of choice for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation
Oct 29, 2009 |
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A recent study by doctors at Shinshu University, School of Medicine, in Japan determined that left side grafting has lower risk to donors compared to grafts taken from the right lobe, and it appears to be the procedure of ...
Better blood screening process needed to prevent babesiosis transmission
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Babesiosis is a potentially dangerous parasitic disease transmitted by ticks and is common in the Northeast and the upper Midwest. Babesia lives inside of red blood cells, meaning it can also be transmitted through a blood ...
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.
Doctors Use Patient's Own Stem Cells to Grow Facial Bone
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a first-of-its kind procedure, physicians have used stem cells taken from the fat tissue of a 14-year-old boy and combined them with growth protein and donor tissue to grow viable cheek bones in the teen. ...
US has no good system to track medical implants
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Three years ago, the maker of a surgical clip called the Hem-o-lok issued an urgent recall notice warning doctors to stop using the fasteners on living kidney donors. It said the clips could dislodge ...
Kidneys from deceased donors with acute renal failure expand donor pool
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Kidneys recovered from deceased donors with acute renal failure (ARF) - once deemed unusable for transplant - appear to work just as well as kidneys transplanted from deceased donors who do not develop kidney problems prior ...
Organ donors -- and recipients -- are aging
Sep 22, 2009 |
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At 84 years old, Juan Guano would seem an unlikely candidate for a kidney transplant.
Apple CEO Jobs on stage, discusses transplant
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs returned Wednesday to the showman role that has helped define his company leadership, taking the stage for the first time since his medical leave to announce such new products ...
Researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods
Aug 30, 2009 |
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A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a new, more efficient way of cloning zebra fish, a breakthrough that could have implications for human health research.
Lower tacrolimus doses is suitable for living donor liver transplantation with small-for-size graft
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Several studies have shown that living donor liver transplant (LDLT) recipients required smaller doses of tacrolimus compared with deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT) patients, which indicated that liver regeneration could ...
Spain's 1st face transplant patient can smile now
Aug 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Spain's first face transplant patient - the first anywhere to get a new tongue and jaw - has been so pleased by his new appearance that he smiled, hospital officials said Saturday.
Increasing the number of kidney transplants
Aug 20, 2009 |
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In most transplant centers, the kidneys of very young deceased donors are transplanted together into one patient. According to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (C ...
