Transplants / Organ Donations News-Part 1

The latest Transplants News & Organ Donations News articles published daily. Includes news on immunosuppression, organ allocation, organ dysfunction, rejection, alternative sources, techniques and more.

28 March 2008

• Seven Of 10 Likely Democratic Voters In Pennsylvania Concerned About Health Care Costs, Poll Finds

27 March 2008

• Lifetime Effects Of Pediatric Liver Transplants

26 March 2008

• CSMG Technologies Subsidiary Live Tissue Connect Technology And Product Performance Will Be Presented At The Central European Congress Of Surgery

25 March 2008

• Surgeons Use Transplant Surgery To Remove Tumour

24 March 2008

• Parkinson's Disease Treated By Therapeutic Cloning In Mouse Model

21 March 2008

• Transplant Societies Protest FDA Policy In American Journal Of Transplantation

19 March 2008

• Living Donor Liver Transplants Improved Outcome Using New Technique

• New Interventional Radiology Treatment Shows Hope For People With Complications From Bone Marrow, Stem Cell Transplants

17 March 2008

• In The Care Of Cardiac Patients Cardiovascular Nurses Strive For Excellence

14 March 2008

• A New Finding In Liver Transplantation And Antifibrinolytics?

12 March 2008

• Macrophage Study Finds Cells Policed To Tell Friend From Foe

11 March 2008

• Pediatric Renal Transplantation Benefits From NIH Grant To Emory And Pediatric Partners

07 March 2008

• European Group For Blood And Marrow Transplantation Annual Congress

05 March 2008

• Portopulmonary Hypertension May Be Treated By A Combination Therapy Of 3 Vasodilators

04 March 2008

• LifeCycle Pharma Announces Positive Top-Line Results Of Phase II Clinical Trial Of LCP-Tacro In Stable Kidney Transplant Patients

• Two New Lungs Might Be Better Than One

03 March 2008

• Survival Rates Exceed National Averages For UCSF Heart, Liver And Lung Transplant Programs

• Transplantation Boosts Survival Rates For Young Kidney Failure Patients, Canada

28 February 2008

• Using Statistical Modeling To Analyze Immune System Proteins

• UK's Oldest Existing Motoring Club On Track To Boost Life-saving Campaign

• Race, Insurance Status Affect Access To Transplantation And Kidney Disease Treatment

24 February 2008

• Calcineurin Inhibitor-Sparing Regimens In Solid Organ Transplantation: Focus On Improving Renal Function And Nephrotoxicity

22 February 2008

• Device That Measures Optimum State Of An Organ Prior To Transplanting Has Been Patented

• Seaweed Link To Diabetes Treatment, UK

• Kidney Donor Age Linked To Aortic Stiffening

21 February 2008

• The National Kidney Registry And NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Announce A Triple Swap Starting A Donor Chain

• Business In The Community To Encourage More People To Save A Life, UK Transplant

• Kidney Transplant Chain Initiated At NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell

• New Independent Research Study Indicates That Cylex's ImmuKnow Test May Identify Kidney Transplant Patients At Risk For Early Acute Rejection

20 February 2008

• No Real Differences Noted In Kidney Failure Treatments

18 February 2008

• Australian Medical Association Urges Organ Donors To Make Their Wishes Known

16 February 2008

• After An Operation Patients With Larger Social Networks May Fare Better

• Blacks Awaiting Lung Transplants More Likely To Die Or Be Denied Than Whites

15 February 2008

• Book's Claim That Personhood Begins At Conception Does Not Match With 'Messiness Of Biology,' Opinion Piece Says

• The Key To Curing Hemophilia A May Lie In Transplanted Cells

• Race Matters For Patients Awaiting Lung Transplants

• Putting The Beat Back Into Weak Hearts

13 February 2008

• A Functional Immune System Can Be Derived From Embryonic Stem Cells, Preliminary Study Finds

12 February 2008

• Transplant Hope For Diabetes Patients, UK

11 February 2008

• Government To Fund Islet Cell Transplants, UK

08 February 2008

• Body Art Delivers Hard-Hitting Message About Shortage Of Donated Organs, UK

07 February 2008

• Impact Of Donor Organ Allocation System Discussed By Mayo Clinic Proceedings Contributors

• Powerful Tool For Pathogen Discovery Enables Improvements In Screening For Transplant Safety

• Immunosuppressant Further Linked To Birth Defects

• Life-Saving Mail Drop Goes To Millions Of Homes Across Midlands, UK

• Mayo Clinic Proceedings Contributors Discuss Impact Of Donor Organ Allocation System

05 February 2008

• Older Lung Transplant Patients Have Good Outcomes, Study Finds

• After Organ Transplantation Former Substance Abusers Rarely Relapse

• Organ Donor Shortage Remains Obstacle For Would Be Transplant Patients Despite Better Medicine

01 February 2008

• Lux Granted Fast Track Designation For LX201 For Corneal Transplant Rejection

• Most Organ Transplant Patients Are Unaware Of Their Increased Risk For Skin Cancer

30 January 2008

• Designation Of High-Volume Heart Transplant Hospitals Needs To Be Reviewed

29 January 2008

• Doctors Report Transplant Breakthrough

• Stem Cell Transplants May Benefit Stroke Victims

• Fact Sheet - Safety Of Cells, Tissues And Organs (CTO) For Transplantation, Canada

26 January 2008

• Study Finds Transplant Patient Thrives 2 Years After Stopping Immunosuppressive Drugs

24 January 2008

• Kidney Transplants Without Lifetime On Immunosuppressive Drugs In Sight

• Combined Organ And Bone Marrow Transplant Allows Patients To Halt Immunosuppression

23 January 2008

• Northwestern Memorial Transplant Program Initiates New Study

22 January 2008

• Recipient Got Wrong Donor Kidney And Had To Have It Removed

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