American Heart Association Lists Top 10 Research Advances

American Heart Association Lists Top 10 Research Advances : Two studies found significant improvements for treating children with heart dise...

Everolimus May Be An Option for Rescue Therapy

Everolimus May Be An Option for Rescue Therapy : A team at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, India, studied 30 transplant recipients on ...

Cartilage may be created using stem cells

Cartilage may be created using stem cells : "What this research shows in a mouse model is the ability to create an unlimited supply of ...

Man celebrates 40th year with transplanted kidney

Man celebrates 40th year with transplanted kidney : “I got sick and the strep throat settled in my kidneys . I didn't know at the time t...

Should you be an organ donor?

Should you be an organ donor? : Carolyn Henry Glaspy's personal story of tragedy has became a source of hope for others, and a call to a...

Mount Sinai Discharges First Patient in the Tri-State Area with Total ...

Mount Sinai Discharges First Patient in the Tri-State Area with Total ... : The first patient in the metropolitan New York area to be discha...

UMd. transplant team gives Virginia man new face after 15 years

UMd. transplant team gives Virginia man new face after 15 years : The Virginia man, who about 100 days ago underwent the most extensive face...

Kidney Grafts Function Longer In Europe Than In United States

Kidney Grafts Function Longer In Europe Than In United States : The lower survival rates compared to Europe also apply to Hispanic Americans...

Why stem-cell science thrives in Japan

Why stem-cell science thrives in Japan : I knew that Katsuhiko Hayashi — one of the scientists involved — was doing fascinating research on...

Stem-cell advocacy 'moved the needle'

Stem-cell advocacy 'moved the needle' : This year, panels will address advancing treatments for specific diseases and conditions inc...

Regrown Bones, Transplanted Faces: This Chemist Is Remaking Military Medicine

Regrown Bones, Transplanted Faces: This Chemist Is Remaking Military Medicine : AFIRM, short for the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative ...

Everolimus for Advanced Breast Cancer: An Update From the BOLERO-2 Trial

Everolimus for Advanced Breast Cancer: An Update From the BOLERO-2 Trial : At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Breast Cancer...

Roche cytomegalovirus viral load test now available in US

Roche cytomegalovirus viral load test now available in US  About the test The first FDA-approved laboratory test for use in quantifying CMV ...

Cancer crisis as Scottish patients are denied drugs

Cancer crisis as Scottish patients are denied drugs The doctors' anger focuses on a range of new cancer treatments which they claim are...

Stem cell debates are so yesterday

Stem cell debates are so yesterday : Stem cell research has hardly been mentioned in 2012, unlike the last two US election campaigns. Salon...

'Heart in a box' invention allows transplant hearts to remain outside the body ...

'Heart in a box' invention allows transplant hearts to remain outside the body ... : TransMedics' Organ Care System, Heart in a...

Baylor procedure offers hope for those in need of a liver transplant

Baylor procedure offers hope for those in need of a liver transplant  Living liver transplants are rare, with less than 250 nationwide last...

'God would want that': Advocates tout organ donation

'God would want that': Advocates tout organ donation  Some families reject organ donation because they think their loved ones woul...

Transplant Games close with a promise to return

Transplant Games close with a promise to return "I just didn't want it to end," said T.J. Maciak, a kidney transplant recipie...

Should patients be paid for tissue donation?

Should patients be paid for tissue donation?  To compensate the person whose tissue leads to a major discovery — or a profitable cell line —...

Statins may cut cancer risk post-heart transplant

Statins may cut cancer risk post-heart transplant  These results suggest that this is another reason to make sure heart - transplant patien...

United States Organ Donation Stats/Graph

United States Organ Donation Stats/Graph   Tagged: essential organs survival, organ donor process, organ donors facts, organ donors statist...

Organ donation can make a difference

Organ donation can make a difference : Make a fist with your hand. That's the average size of a normal kidney. It weighs about as much a...

Integration influences organ donation

Integration influences organ donation  Spain's largest free English language newspaper covering 6 editions Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca N...

Kidney-donor deaths linked to surgical clips raise issues of alerts ...

Kidney-donor deaths linked to surgical clips raise issues of alerts ...  Starting in 2004, transplant surgeons, such as Dr. Amy Friedman, b...

Chicago woman cured of sickle cell disease

Chicago woman cured of sickle cell disease  This type of stem cell transplant is only possible for patients who have a healthy ... to the ...

Wales launches organ donor scheme that people have to opt out of

Wales launches organ donor scheme that people have to opt out of Details of the first organ donation scheme in the UK that puts the onus o...

Woman Denied Liver Transplant Because of Pornography Use

Woman Denied Liver Transplant Because of Pornography Use  The 34-year-old woman, who is applying to other medical centers and thus prefers t...

Infographic: Just How Hard Is It To Get An Organ Transplant?

Infographic: Just How Hard Is It To Get An Organ Transplant? : When I think “transplant,” for whatever reason, “ heart transplant ” pops in ...

How brain performs `motor chunking` tasks revealed

How brain performs `motor chunking` tasks revealed  “You can think about a chunk as a rhythm,” said Nicholas Wymbs , a postdoctoral research...

Study by UC Santa Barbara psychologists reveals how brain performs ...

Study by UC Santa Barbara psychologists reveals how brain performs ...  IMAGE Pictured are Nicholas Wymbs left and Scott Grafton in the UCS...

Robin Roberts' Illness: Be the Match Urges More to Donate Bone Marrow

Robin Roberts' Illness: Be the Match Urges More to Donate Bone Marrow : In a letter to viewers, Roberts, also a breast cancer survivor, ...

Donation Details

Donation Details : Q. Can a long-term survivor of melanoma donate organs ? A. For most cancers, the longer one is cancer-free, the lower the...

Mayo Clinic to offer organ transplant consultations at the Mall of America

Mayo Clinic to offer organ transplant consultations at the Mall of America  Starting this month, patients can schedule one-on-one consultati...

Cloning Teeth: Medicine's Next Big Thing?

Cloning Teeth: Medicine's Next Big Thing?  (Source: The National Institutes of Health resource for stem cell research ) CLONING TEETH: N...

Kidney exchange between strangers spans continents

Kidney exchange between strangers spans continents  In the upcoming transplants , a donor from Trinidad and Tobago will enter the chain as w...

Kirby: Organ donors don't discriminate. Should you?

Kirby: Organ donors don't discriminate. Should you?  I'm betting that if you or a loved one desperately needs a kidney, you won'...

Campaigns Target Older Adult Organ Donors

Campaigns Target Older Adult Organ Donors  By Kristian Weatherspoon  The Health Resources and Services Administration is educating and encou...

Oldest living kidney donor pleased 'to feel useful'

Oldest living kidney donor pleased 'to feel useful' : By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News An 83-year-old man ha...

83-year-old man becomes UK's oldest living kidney donor

83-year-old man becomes UK's oldest living kidney donor  An 83-year-old man has achieved a double by becoming the oldest living kidney d...

Insulin transplant sought using brain-dead patient

Insulin transplant sought using brain-dead patient   Transplantation of pancreatic cells harvested from heart failure victims — set to be ...

Lack of timely transport is an issue for getting organ transplantation

Lack of timely transport is an issue for getting organ transplantation  Dr Stefan Tullius, chief of transplant surgery at Brigham & Wom...

Minnesota's First Man To Live Without A Heart

Minnesota's First Man To Live Without A Heart : “You know it is a miracle, there's no doubt about it, that a person can live, withou...

TO YOUR HEALTH: Organ donors can save or improve lives of 50 others

TO YOUR HEALTH: Organ donors can save or improve lives of 50 others  In 2011 it coordinated the transplant of 1185 organs from 441 organ do...

Unintended Consequence for Dialysis Patients as Drug Rule Changes

Unintended Consequence for Dialysis Patients as Drug Rule Changes : The implications can be foreboding for patients awaiting kidney transpla...

For kidneys, is Facebook really better than a free market?

For kidneys, is Facebook really better than a free market?  Now, kidneys are not like hearts. We are all walking around with two kidneys and...

Corneal transplantation

Corneal transplantation : ... newer selective techniques for lamellar keratoplasty and adoption of keratoprosthesis surgery, the developmen...

Detection of BK virus in urine from renal transplant subjects by mass ...

Detection of BK virus in urine from renal transplant subjects by mass ...  Detection of BK virus in urine from renal transplant subjects by...

OSU unveils new regenerative medicine center - The Akron Legal ...

OSU unveils new regenerative medicine center - The Akron Legal ...  OSU unveils new regenerative medicine center. RICK ADAMCZAK Special to ...

Ask the Experts: Notary better for health care directive?

Ask the Experts: Notary better for health care directive?  In California , it's known as an Advance Health Care Directive and lets you e...

States see instant spike in organ donors following Facebook push

States see instant spike in organ donors following Facebook push  NEW YORK (WLS) - Organ donation registries in 10 states reported many new...

Paired donor programs offer options for kidney transplants

Paired donor programs offer options for kidney transplants  Smith received a kidney transplant through a paired exchange program at Piedmon...

Medical Tattoos Become Growing Trend

Medical Tattoos Become Growing Trend  In California doctors have seen more than a dozen different cases where teensget more  April 16-22 He...

Missing child found,is awaiting heart transplant

Missing child found, dad and grandmother face charges :  The child was awaiting a heart transplant and was the subject of an intense search...

Growing organs through regenerative medicine

Growing organs through regenerative medicine : In fact, medicine science is on its way there in a field called regenerative medicine . Scien...

Regenerative Medicine Back on Fast Track

Regenerative Medicine Back on Fast Track : Topics include improvements in cord blood expansion, surprising new ways to harvest stem cells , ...

Heart-healthy 'Kathy's Cookbook' was labor of love for late cardiac patient

Heart-healthy 'Kathy's Cookbook' was labor of love for late cardiac patient : Compelled to share what she'd learned, Brown s...

New UCLA stem cell research shows promise

New UCLA stem cell research shows promise : UCLA stem cell researchers are one step closer to growing new organs (ie, hearts, livers, and k...

Turkey : First face transplant patient utters his first words after Operation

Turkey : First face transplant patient utters his first words after Operation : First face transplant patient in Turkey utters his first wo...

Nick Cannon experiences kidney failure

Nick Cannon experiences kidney failure : According to everydayhealth.com, “kidney failure occurs when kidney damage is so severe that a pers...