News tagged with organ transplants
S.Korea scientists clone pig for human transplants
Apr 22, 2009 |
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South Korean scientists said they have cloned a piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants.
Gene mutation increases drug toxicity, rejection risk in pediatric kidney transplants
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Screening for mutations in a gene that helps the body metabolize a kidney transplant anti-rejection drug may predict which children are at higher risk for side effects, including compromised white blood cell count or organ ...
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Chinese regulation bans human organ trade
Apr 08, 2007 |
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China's debut regulation on human organ transplants prohibits medical officials from trading in such organs.
Britain to outlaw most private organ transplants
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.
Kidney recipients could be picked by age
Feb 09, 2007 |
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Younger people in need of kidney transplants would get organs before older people under a controversial proposal announced in Houston.
Many patients ineligible for transplants
Mar 23, 2008 |
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Thousands of Americans listed as waiting for organ replacements do not qualify as recipients, United Network for Organ Sharing statistics reveal.
Baffling the body into accepting transplants
Jan 21, 2009 |
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An unexpected discovery made by a Sydney scientist has potential to alter the body's response to anything it perceives as not 'self', such as a tissue or organ transplant.
CDC: Rare infection passed on by Miss. organ donor
Dec 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An extremely rare infection has been passed from an organ donor to at least one recipient in what is thought to be the first human-to-human transfer of the amoeba, medical officials said Friday.
Researchers succeed in multiplying blood cells in the lab
Apr 16, 2009 |
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A team from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at Université de Montréal has succeeded in producing a large quantity of laboratory stem cells from a small number of blood stem cells obtained ...
Paper: Dialysis patients not told of transplants
Sep 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Thousands of kidney patients in the United States start dialysis without first being told of kidney transplants that would be cheaper and lead to longer lives, according to a four-month newspaper investigation published ...
Johns Hopkins leads first 12-patient, multicenter 'domino donor' kidney transplant
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City successfully completed Saturday the first six-way, multihospital, domino kidney transplant. ...
Web site links organ donors, recipients
Jul 17, 2006 |
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A Web site that matches people needing organ transplants with prospective donors may be unpopular with medical ethicists but not the people it serves.
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