Editorial: Saying yes to organ donor registry

Editorial: Saying yes to organ donor registry : The state's organ donation registry has been like a developing athlete rewriting the re...

Lungs from pack-a-day smokers safe for transplant, study finds

Lungs from pack-a-day smokers safe for transplant, study finds : There were nearly 5,200 liver transplants in the U.S. in 2012, but typical...

Islet transplant may slow progression of atherosclerosis

Islet transplant may slow progression of atherosclerosis : "This is the first study to look at what happens to diabetes-related cardiov...

Big increase in heart, lung transplants

Big increase in heart, lung transplants : While the number of overall organ transplants fell last year compared to 2011, there was a big in...

Medal comfort after skater Richard Taylor's heart donation

Medal comfort after skater Richard Taylor's heart donation : His family were asked if they wanted to donate his organs minutes before th...

Bolshoi Theatre acid attack: Sergei Filin's eyes treated with stem cells

Bolshoi Theatre acid attack: Sergei Filin's eyes treated with stem cells - Telegrap h Bolshoi Theatre acid attack: Sergei Filin's ey...

Child talks about what organ donation means to her - a lot

Child talks about what organ donation means to her - a lot : Cheryl Parish's daughter, Anna Parish, 11, received a liver transplant aft...

No insurance cover for organ donors

No insurance cover for organ donors : CHENNAI: Srinidhi (name changed), a housewife, donated a part of her liver to her husband a few years ...

Miami Project Performs First Schwann Cell Transplant

Miami Project Performs First Schwann Cell Transplant : Led by Miami Project Scientific Director Dr. Dalton Dietrich, the Schwann cell clinic...

Optic Nerve Vision Loss Reversed with New Stem Cell Treatment

Optic Nerve Vision Loss Reversed with New Stem Cell Treatment : MD Stem Cells helps nearly blind car accident victim regain her sight in Fl...

Kyoto University researchers create kidney tissue from stem cells

Kyoto University researchers create kidney tissue from stem cells : Another scientific breakthrough has been achieved involving tissue gener...

Ottawa Firefighter's Facebook Fight for a Kidney

Ottawa Firefighter's Facebook Fight for a Kidney : Craig Dunbar needs a kidney transplant and his friends and family are spreading the ...

Heart to Heart roadshow on organ donation heading for Swansea ...

Heart to Heart roadshow on organ donation heading for Swansea ... : FANCY a heart to heart? Well, you can if you head to the LC next Tuesday...

Costs of Kazakhstan medical services will be made equal to those of foreign ...

Costs of Kazakhstan medical services will be made equal to those of foreign ... : 30 of them (54.4 percent) were sent for transplantation o...

First UK live liver donation to a stranger takes place

First UK live liver donation to a stranger takes place : With more than 400 people currently waiting for a life-saving liver transplant in ...

Cleobury Mortimer's MP makes organ donation appeal

Cleobury Mortimer's MP makes organ donation appeal : “Almost everyone would accept an organ transplant if they needed one but comparativ...

RGIII's injury and making sense of the optimism from the Redskins

RGIII's injury and making sense of the optimism from the Redskins and Dr ... : Dr. James Andrews has been using stem cell injections to...

Liver transplant recipient thankful for financial help

Liver transplant recipient thankful for financial help : Doctors told Iacobone that the only chance for survival would be a liver transplant...

After six years and transplant, Matisse is home

After six years and transplant, Matisse is home : HOME AT LAST: Matisse Reid, 12, returns from America after undergoing multiple transplants...

New avenue in neurobiology

New avenue in neurobiology : Paola Arlotta, associate professor of stem cell and regenerative biology, stands outside her office in Sherman...

India's First successful robotic liver transplantation surgery

India's First successful robotic liver transplantation surgery by Dr ... : Human body is one of the most complicated machine of the worl...

Baby Angelina didn't survive liver transplant in Argentina

Baby Angelina didn't survive liver transplant in Argentina : LITTLE Angelina Beepath, whose million-dollar medical treatment was paid fo...

Son sacrifices sport to donate kidney to mother

Son sacrifices sport to donate kidney to mother : Trainee accountant Alan, 26, who will spend at least three months recovering after the ope...

Beaverton man begs for kidney

Beaverton man begs for kidney : He's been waiting more than a year to get a kidney transplant . Martinez said he decided to try and find...

Fewer Germans donating organs for transplants after claims doctors rigged ...

Fewer Germans donating organs for transplants after claims doctors rigged ... : BERLIN – Organ donations have dropped sharply in Germany fol...

Kidney Transplant Recipient Able to Travel Again - YouTube

Kidney Transplant Recipient Able to Travel Again - YouTube : This short video introduces Paul Salditt, an architect from Washington, DC who ...

A Son's Plea Organ & Tissue Donors - YouTube

A Son's Plea Organ & Tissue Donors - YouTube : My father, Rocky Thompson and thousand of others are waiting daily for the gift of li...

Request for donor tissue caught family off guard | GazetteNet.com

Request for donor tissue caught family off guard | GazetteNet.com : To the editor: On Dec. 2, my mother, Marie, died en. www.gazettenet.com/...

Opinion: Regenerating Safely

Opinion: Regenerating Safely : This was a good decision that will protect patients, strengthen efforts to develop new regenerative medicines...

Baby boy still recovering from liver transplant:Fundraiser continues ...

Baby boy still recovering from liver transplant:Fundraiser continues ... : MILTON — Nine-month-old Braxton Staples successfully received a l...

Organ donor hopes to create national registry

Organ donor hopes to create national registry : Lexington's Sherry Mullies gave an organ to a coworker's son last fall and then too...

Blacks face tougher time finding kidney for transplant

Blacks face tougher time finding kidney for transplant : Although organ transplants can occur between races, matches are more difficult to ...

Smell the Coffee: Organ donors live on in others

Smell the Coffee: Organ donors live on in others : CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A little over a year ago, I wrote about a Texas couple who lost thei...

Now, dental stem cells to be used to grow organs

Now, dental stem cells to be used to grow organs : After blood stem cells that were taken from the umbilical cord to grow tissues and organ...

Albion backs organ donor campaign

\ Albion backs organ donor campaign :  The campaign has two main aims; to increase the number of people signing up to the organ donor regis...

Ind. couple both waiting for kidney transplants

Ind. couple both waiting for kidney transplants : Kathy Carnes, a registered nurse and transplant coordinator at the IU Transplant Center ,...

Child abuse victim's legacy lives on through organ donation

Child abuse victim's legacy lives on through organ donation : Both Markiece and Dina Palmer face murder and child abuse charges and are ...

Oak Park Heights boy born with rare heart defect awaits transplant in Rochester

Oak Park Heights boy born with rare heart defect awaits transplant in Rochester : ROCHESTER, Minn. -- When Cameron Ulrich gets his new heart...

Woman holds own heart after transplant - picture

Woman holds own heart after transplant - picture : She's my hero." Kelsey added that doctors wouldn't allow Penny to keep the h...

Baby Grace battles heart failure during wait for transplant

Baby Grace battles heart failure during wait for transplant : Grace is on a waiting list for a heart transplant , which doctors hope she...

Bacteria Can Morph Host Cells Into Stem Cells

Bacteria Can Morph Host Cells Into Stem Cells : Bacteria have the ability to convert the host tissue cells that they infect to become like s...

Marion Barry Proposes DC Tax Break For Organ Donors

Marion Barry Proposes DC Tax Break For Organ Donors : On Tuesday, Barry (D-Ward 8) introduced a bill aimed to increase organ donations by o...

A Piece of My Heart, From My Arm

A Piece of My Heart, From My Arm : The move forced scientists to search for other ways and in 2007, researchers in Japan and Wisconsin figur...

Local couple in need of kidney transplants continues to fight

Local couple in need of kidney transplants continues to fight : Now that she is on kidney dialysis three times a week and is often tired and...

Bacteria's Hidden Skill Could Pave Way for Stem Cell Treatments

Bacteria's Hidden Skill Could Pave Way for Stem Cell Treatments : "Potentially you could use the bacteria to change the flexibility...

Scots Scientists Make Stem Cell Breakthrough

Scots Scientists Make Stem Cell Breakthrough : Scientists are planning to use the recently found leprosy bacteria for the purpose of growing...

Editorial: Saying yes to organ donor registry

Editorial: Saying yes to organ donor registry : The state's organ donation registry has been like a developing athlete rewriting the re...

CITY FORUM TO HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANCE OF ORGAN DONATION

CITY FORUM TO HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANCE OF ORGAN DONATION : A public forum to highlight the role of ongoing research in organ donation will take...

Irregular Heart Beat Elevates Risk of Kidney Failure

Irregular Heart Beat Elevates Risk of Kidney Failure : At the other end of the spectrum are the people who have progressed to end-stage rena...

Critically Ill Flu Patients Saved With Artificial Lung Technology Treatment

Critically Ill Flu Patients Saved With Artificial Lung Technology Treatment : "ECLS is an important part of our ability to bridge patie...

Drug targets hard-to-reach leukemia stem cells responsible for relapses

Drug targets hard-to-reach leukemia stem cells responsible for relapses : The findings, published in the January 17 online issue of Cell Ste...

Leprosy spreads by reprogramming nerve cells into migratory stem cells

Leprosy spreads by reprogramming nerve cells into migratory stem cells : This genetic reprogramming helps to disseminate the disease – infec...

Martinez boy gets double lung transplant

Martinez boy gets double lung transplant : Sawyer Mobley, 10, underwent a double lung transplant Wednesday evening at the St. Louis Childre...

Potential stem cell therapy for Duchenne's

Potential stem cell therapy for Duchenne's : Researchers have found that injecting aorta-derived stem cells into the hearts of dystroph...

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Cures Intestinal Infections

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Cures Intestinal Infections : Research on fecal transplants done in the Netherlands was published in the N...

Flublock Approved to Prevent Seasonal Flu - Drugs.com MedNews

Flublock Approved to Prevent Seasonal Flu - Drugs.com MedNews : Flublock, a new vaccine that uses recombinant DNA technology to prevent the ...

Text LIFE to 61611 to register as an organ donor urge cricketers

Text LIFE to 61611 to register as an organ donor urge cricketers : Scottish international cricket players have urged more people from the bl...

FDA drug approvals reach 15-year high in 2012 | The Advisory ...

FDA drug approvals reach 15-year high in 2012 | The Advisory ... : Bloomberg reports that in 2012, the number of FDA drug approvals is the ...

Woman receives kidney transplant before Christmas

Woman receives kidney transplant before Christmas : Kidney transplant recipient Debbie Oliver is looking forward to clearing out her bedroo...

Body fat good source of stem cells, say doctors

Body fat good source of stem cells, say doctors : Speaking at the first national convention of the Philippine Society for Stem Cell Medicin...

FDA Law Blog: FDA Considering Alternative Approval Pathway

FDA Law Blog: FDA Considering Alternative Approval Pathway : This approach was recently outlined in FDA's draft guidance entitled “Enri...

Martinez boy slated for lung transplant today

Martinez boy slated for lung transplant today : The double- lung transplant for Sawyer Mobley, 10, was scheduled for 4 p.m. at the St. Loui...

Diabetes Drug Approved by U.S. FDA - Topix

Diabetes Drug Approved by U.S. FDA - Topix : Please note by clicking on "Post Comment" you acknowledge that you have read the Term...

Reports: FDA Approved 39 Drugs in 2012 | First Report Managed Care

Reports: FDA Approved 39 Drugs in 2012 | First Report Managed Care : Even as generic drugs become more popular, pharmaceutical companies ar...

Making strides -

Making strides - : Doctors told him he didn't have much time left unless he got a liver transplant — quick. But there was no way Tabata...

Fundraiser Friday for dad who needs lung transplant

Fundraiser Friday for dad who needs lung transplant : STOCKTON - George Grismore, 58, of Stockton, who is married and the father of six, is ...

Hurley unveils Memorial Wall honoring donors

Hurley unveils Memorial Wall honoring donors : “We are so honored to have such a special wall, recognizing the organ donors whose lives liv...

Heart in her hands: Penny with the organ

Heart in her hands: Penny with the organ : Hand on heart this is one powerful image – a transplant patient holding up her failed organ aft...

Fecal transplants can save lives when antibiotics won't

Fecal transplants can save lives when antibiotics won't : The infection can cause severe diarrhea and life-threatening bowel inflammatio...

FDA Law Blog: FDA Considering Alternative Approval Pathway

FDA Law Blog: FDA Considering Alternative Approval Pathway : This approach was recently outlined in FDA's draft guidance entitled “Enri...

Phoenix Children's program a transplant gem

Phoenix Children's program a transplant gem : She became the Valley's first pediatric liver transplant recipient in more than 20 y...

The dead can save the living

The dead can save the living : As many as 760 patients undergoing dialysis in the state have been waiting for kidney donors since 2007, goin...

Allied Healthcare explores new tissue engineering applications

Allied Healthcare explores new tissue engineering applications : ... pelvic floor reconstruction, along with the recent regenerative result...

Bobby Rydell spreads word about organ donation

Bobby Rydell spreads word about organ donation : He's spreading the word about organ donation . A double organ transplant of his liver ...

Who Should Receive Organ Transplants?

Who Should Receive Organ Transplants? : Because survival rates are even lower for older patients, guidelines from the International Society ...

Competition affects who gets a liver transplant

Competition affects who gets a liver transplant : They analyzed data on more than 38,000 liver recipients who had transplants from non-livi...

Renal disease program is effective, efficient: Letter

Renal disease program is effective, efficient: Letter : In addition to being a conservative legislator, I am also a kidney transplant recip...