Immuno-suppression therapy was introduced in the transplant field nearly 40 years ago and has been critical to the success of organ transplants. Anti-rejection drugs help to...
The Health Minister of India, Anbumani Ramadoss, has proposed amendments to Indian law that would provide for a formal model for organ donation and transplantation in India that is based upon...
A toddler with a rare cancer has been saved after she became only the second person in Britain to be given a transplant using frozen stem cells sent all the way from Japan.
Sorrel Mason,...
This week, Police in India uncovered a black market organ transplant ring which had been harvesting kidneys from poor Indian laborers, sometimes against their wishes, and using them in foreigners...
Just because a transplant was successful, it doesn’t mean the problems are over. In many cases, a patient’s immune system attacks the transplanted organ or tissue in a normal attempt to...
Recent research indicates a possibility that immuno-suppressant drugs after organ transplant not be required for the rest of the recipient's life.
The current edition of the New England...
UK Prime Minister has backed plans to boost organ transplant rates by switching to a system of presumed consent. The prime minister wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that an 'opt-out system has...
Montreal, QC — Last year, the United States Federal Food and Drug Administration up held a blanket ban on men who have sex with men from donating blood so as to prevent the spread of HIV and...
Forty years ago this month, the world's first human-to-human heart transplant was performed. The operation was successful. However, the patient died from complications. This...
Changing the method by which donated livers are allocated to potential transplant patients appears to have decreased the number of deaths among individuals on the waiting list as well as shortened...
An Israeli bill that sets down criminal punishment for selling human transplant organs or serving as a middleman and would allow "reasonable compensation" for losses caused by...
LOS ANGELES -- Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in "Camelot" launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73.
The singer died...
SCOTLAND: A change in UK organ donation came a step closer today when UK Health Secretary Alan Johnson ordered an investigation into the idea of an "opt out" system.
He announced...
Soccer goalie Korinne Shroyer came home from eighth grade one day about five years ago. Navigating around her father's closet, she picked up her father's gun and proceeded to fire a bullet...
An Orlando woman received the first pancreas and kidney transplant at Florida Hospital.
The hospital began their liver and pancreas services at the beginning of June. They are the only...
DETROIT -- A male patient at a University of Michigan hospital remained in critical condition Wednesday awaiting a double lung transplant two days after a plane crashed, killing six members of a...
NEW YORK -- Earlier this year at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, surgeons removed a transplanted heart from a patient who had died and re-transplanted it in another...
Preservation of an organ intended for transplant during transport from donor to recipient is of primary concern in ensuring a successful transplant. Research presented at the ISHLT 27th Annual...
NEW DELHI, INDIA - Recognising that problems of commercial exploitation of organs, transplant tourism and illegal trafficking of organs from poor to rich countries are dogging the world, the World...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The transplant surgeon had good news: A donated liver was on the way for critically ill Maggie Catherwood. Then he asked: Would she let doctors cut off part of her new liver to...
March 8 -- More than 90 percent of America's children and adolescent organ transplants are doing well after one year, from then on the rate of loss of the grafted organ increases, investigators...
The House today unanimously approved legislation (HR 710) to specify that "paired" kidney donations do not violate laws prohibiting compensation for organ donations, according to the AP/Long...
A DIALYSIS patient, who paid just under £10,000 to have a kidney transplant from a living donor in Pakistan, is calling for changes to the organ donor system.
The poor-to-rich organ trade...
ST. LOUIS (AP) - When Joy Lagos learned she had cancer, she had enough hope to believe she would beat it. What brought the San Francisco resident to tears, however, was knowing that radiation and...
The following is an excerpt from information provided by organ procurement organizations to the general public. It answers many of the common questions people have about organ and tissue...
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A New York hospital is taking steps to offer the first uterus transplant in the United States, a radical experiment that might allow women whose wombs were removed or...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Current organ donor networks appear able to supply human wombs, or uteruses, for transplantation as a possible approach to treating infertility, researchers report in the...
ATLANTA, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Automatic Life, Inc., a nonprofit public charity 501 ( c ) 3 organization aimed at focusing on increasing minority organ donations targeting African American and...
Stefanos A. Zenios, a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, renowned for his application of Operations Research (O.R.) to tackle some of modern medicine's thorniest problems, has...
NEW YORK, Jan. 2 -- The next step in assisted reproduction may be a uterus transplant, according to researchers here.
Assisted reproductive therapy, while widely used, is of little value...
After a year of looking for a new kidney for his ailing wife, Steve Orr has not found success yet, but there could be some new state legislation to help him and thousands of others in their...
CHICAGO, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Medimmune Inc. (MEDI.O: Quote, Profile , Research) on Monday said it completed the sale of the rights to a drug to prevent a disease associated with organ transplants...
Ron Springs, a former Dallas Cowboys running back, is currently awaiting a kidney transplant. In a positive twist of fate, it appears a match has been found in his ex-teammate, Everson...
Madonna Walter wanted hardwood flooring in her master bedroom. So Tom Stanton spent Wednesday on floor detail in Walter's Diamondhead home.
"We are doing it to spend some time with her,...
SAN JOSE - Their first meeting was as awkward as a blind date.
Herbert "Sonny" Davis needed a new kidney. Matt Thompson had one to give.
But first, they had to forge a friendship,...
(AP) -- A Minnesota patient apparently was infected with an unusual germ from cadaver tissue used during routine knee surgery -- a discovery that has led the nation's largest tissue bank to ask...
LOS ANGELES - St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles has shuttered its heart transplant program, broadening the fallout from a scandal that forced the hospital to stop performing liver...
The debate over how to allocate the scarce resource of donated kidneys is unfolding on a national scale.
With little public scrutiny, transplant doctors and...
SAN DIEGO - You could say that Ardell Lien has lots of heart - literally.
The 71-year-old sailor, who received a heart and kidney transplant in 2003, proved that during an often...
LOS ANGELES - The organization that oversees the nation's organ transplants frequently fails to find or fix problems at hospitals under its supervision, according to a newspaper investigation...
LONDON, England -- "It may be someone else's face, but when I look in the mirror, I see me."
These are the words of Isabelle Dinoire, the recipient of the world's first face...
Surgeons in China say they carried out the world's first penis transplant.
The doctors claim the operation was a success - even though the organ was later removed when the patient and his...
By Susan Levine
A number of long-standing heart transplant centers in the Washington, D.C. region have fallen under federal scrutiny due to the fact that they have done too few...
A 59-year-old man who received a kidney for a transplant from a living donor at a hospital in Japan's Ehime Prefecture last year and his common-law wife were arrested Sunday on suspicion of giving...
Julie De Rossi, 44, lived life to the fullest: She loved to race cars and scuba dive, and was fiercely protective of her family, especially her son, Aaron Hehr. While her all-or-nothing attitude...
ADDISON, Texas, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- People between ages 65 and 70 and some treated cancer patients are now candidates for heart transplants, say new U.S. guidelines.
The new rules were...
Billie used to play and coach local Aussie rules football in South Gippsland but at the start of 2004, during pre-season training, he "felt some difficulties and ended up getting diagnosed with...
New UCLA research has demonstrated that combined liver-kidney transplants may benefit patients with diseases in both organs, including patients with potentially reversible kidney failure who have...
PONDICHERRY -- India's Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said that the country's Organ Transplant Act would be modified to bridge the gap between the requirement and...
The first World Transplant Congress (WTC) was held from July 22 to July 27 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., the place where the world's first transplant operation was conducted in...
"Let the Games begin."
These words trumpeted forth in Louisville, Ky., in June at the opening ceremonies of the National Kidney Foundation's U.S. Transplant Games. This four-day biennial...
The 2006 annual meeting of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) is set to take place this week, from Tuesday, June 20 through Friday 23 in Boston, MA.
The event...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Just like every other kid on his swim team, Padraic McCole just wanted to be normal.
After receiving a kidney transplant in March 2001, as soon as his doctors gave the...
British surgeon plans to offer partial face transplant surgery to four patients - less than a year after French surgeons pioneered the technique, a London hospital said Sunday.
The ethics...
The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) welcomes the recently published final rule by the Centers...
For 50 years, a woman in
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- May 31, 2006 -- Lung transplant patients who received an inhaled version of the anti-rejection drug cyclosporine had significantly...
In the summer of 1997, I visited the
If putting a dog in his hospital bed, helps Pete Logan get out of it sooner, then his doctors are willing to work around Gizmo.Pete recently...
A disabled British woman missed out on a double lung transplant operation after an ambulance allegedly "got lost" -...
A Chinese military hospital says it's conducted the world's second face transplant on a man who was disfigured...
It's not a new makeup blush, but rather a double organ transplant, that has brought a rosy glow to the face of Betty Bierbach.
Bierbach, who has been an accounts payable clerk in the...
