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)
Transplants / Organ Donations News From Medical News Today:
A Swiss research team has found that using an animal's own brain cells (autologous transplant) to replace degenerated neurons in select brain areas of donor primates with simulated but asymptomatic Parkinson's disease and pre (Read More)
ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News:
Targeted immunotherapy has been an attractive new therapeutic area for a number of cancers because it has the potential to destroy tumor cells without damaging surrounding normal tissue. New study results demonstrate high suc (Read More)
UK News from Times Online:
Donated lungs that have to be discarded because they are not good enough for transplant can be repaired and made suitable for patients, scientists have shown. (Read More)
ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News:
Kidney transplant consent forms are often written at a level that makes it difficult for many kidney patients to fully understand them, according to a new paper. (Read More)
Delhi-Cities-The Times of India:
Unable to digest anything, he throws up soon after eating. Abhishek is suffering from a rare disease Visceral Myopathy in which the small intestines become paralysed. (Read More)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Now, doctors at GH and at the transplant registry have embarked on a new exercise campaigning for the retrieval of skin and bone from the dead. (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy. (Read More)