Transplants / Organ Donations News From Medical News Today:
One of the UK's leading cosmetic surgeons is calling for age restrictions on hair transplant surgery, after seeing an alarming rise in the number of teenage boys wanting to go under the knife. Dr Bessam Farjo, co-founder (Read More)
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Oprah viewers were stunned Wednesday to see the face of Charla Nash, a 56-year-old woman whose face was mauled by a friend's chimpanzee in February. Nash has spent the last nine months in a Cleveland clinic, where she's gone (Read More)
Transplants / Organ Donations News From Medical News Today:
Staff at Southampton's teaching hospitals have launched a campaign to increase the number of organ and tissue donors across the south. An average of three patients die every day in the UK while waiting to receive an orga (Read More)
Transplants / Organ Donations News From Medical News Today:
Fifty individuals who had lost hope of ever having the kidney transplants that would save their lives have reason to celebrate today as Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital announced a national transplant milestone - i (Read More)
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Protesters returned to the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Tuesday, staging a theatrical demonstration and urging the senator to stop taking money from health insurance corporations. Five demonstrators were arrested (Read More)
Stem Cell Research News From Medical News Today:
For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have reported the use of a radiolabeled antibody to deliver targeted doses of radiation, followed by a stem cell transplant, to successfully treat a gr (Read More)
Huffington Post:
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day.Urangoo Baatarkhuyag, a Mongolian immigrant who moved to the United States eight years ago, has been to (Read More)
feeds.latimes.com:
Last year an Edison player who'd just had a bone-marrow transplant defied doctor's orders to join teammates celebrating a win over Fountain Valley. A couple of L.A. match-ups are just as contentious. (Read More)
NYT > Health:
With text messaging, a study found, young liver transplant recipients were more likely to take their medications and avoid life-threatening complications.
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Transplants / Organ Donations News From Medical News Today:
Coronary Risk Factors Increase After Liver Transplantation (#7991) Patients who have undergone a liver transplant may have a significantly increased risk for developing cardiovascular risk factors. Researchers from New Yo (Read More)
ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News:
For the first time, researchers have reported the use of a radiolabeled antibody to deliver targeted doses of radiation, followed by a stem cell transplant, to successfully treat a group of leukemia and pre-leukemia patients (Read More)
Medical Industry News Impact:
A prominent heart transplant surgeon at University Hospitals Case Medical Center cancels a trip to Egypt in protest of recent political events. (Read More)
Transplants / Organ Donations News From Medical News Today:
Individuals with a history of lupus who receive a kidney transplant rarely develop the serious inflammatory condition lupus nephritis in their new organ, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrol (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Between 2000 and 2004, four members of Japan's Yakuza, a "powerful organized cr (Read More)
L.A. Times - Health:
Former addicts are allowed to qualify for a new heart after getting clean -- and cocaine use can indeed harm the ticker. "Three Rivers" (Read More)