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Friday, 07 March 2008
EBMT, the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, will host over 4,000 top scientists, physicians, nurses, caregivers, patients and their families, and others during its 5-day Annual Congress in Florence, Italy. This meeting is a forum for the scientific exchange...
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Six-year-old Abigail has been hospitalized at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha since December, when she received a triple-organ transplant in an attempt to repair the damage from the accident.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Abigail has undergone several surgeries and is hospitalized in Nebraska after having a multiple organ transplant in December. The family is suing the pool manufacturer and the golf club in Hennepin County District Court.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
Existing therapies for rejection of donor lungs can cause kidney damage.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
Posted: Thursday, March 06, 2008 at 1:54 p.m. COLUMBUS (AP) -- For more than six months, Diane Maute worked this zinger into all manner of polite conversation: "Got a kidney you'd be willing to donate?"
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
We have all heard about Red Ribbon Week, but what about Green Ribbon Week? April is Donate Life month; a green ribbon symbolizes organ donation awareness, much like the red ribbon for drugs and the pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- It was once unheard of for an organ donor and recipient not to know each other, but advocates say it's more common now to find no relationship between the two.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
WDTN - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - It was once unheard of for an organ donor and recipient not to know each other, but advocates say it's more common now to find no relationship between the two. Transplant surgeon Dr. Mitchell Henry at Ohio State University ...
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
RALEIGH, N.C. — Deaths among patients awaiting lifesaving kidney transplants fell nationally last year amid rising organ donation and broader use of kidneys that would once have been discarded.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
Zanesville Times Recorder - COLUMBUS (AP) — For more than six months, Diane Maute worked this zinger into all manner of polite conversation: "Got a kidney you'd be willing to donate?" Talk about uncomfortable silences. "People would look at me like, 'What?' " Maute...
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
Long lost grade-school-chums Karl Celestin and Ricardo Manier (front center) give a big ‘thumbs up’ just days after Karl (left) donated a kidney to Ricardo, who suffered from a rare, often fatal condition.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008
San Luis Obispo Tribune - Nurses and doctors working with the California Transplant Donor Network had little experience in handling a rare type of organ recovery before being dispatched to harvest Ruben Navarro’s organs in February 2006, a sheriff’s deputy testified ...
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008
Scotsman - THE family of former First Minister Donald Dewar took the "brave" decision to allow his organs to be donated for transplant, MSPs heard yesterday. Speaking during a debate on the future of organ donation in Scotland, Labour MSP David Whitton told of ...
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008
A 14-year-old Ghanaian boy thanks the doctors who saved his life using a kidney transplanted from his father.
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008
Boston Channel - Researchers fertilized a human ovum in a test tube for the first time at the hospital in 1944 and the first successful human organ transplant, a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to another, took place there in 1954.
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008
Times of India - NEW DELHI: The government Tuesday said it was planning to set up an organ bank on the lines of eye banks to stop the illegal transplant of body parts, like the recent unmasking of the kidney racket that spanned several continents. The health ministry ...
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008
Combination therapy of Prostacyclin, Sildenafil, and Bosentan helped a young male patient with severe portopulmonary hypertension improve enough to receive a liver transplant. It was also used post-transplant to help him maintain his health. These findings are published in the...
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008
NEW DELHI: The government Tuesday said it was planning to set up an organ bank on the lines of eye banks to stop the illegal transplant of body parts, like the recent unmasking of the kidney racket that spanned several continents.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon yesterday said she was "increasingly sympathetic" to introducing Britain's first system of presumed consent for organ donation.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
BBC News - But these drugs - which all transplant patients need to prevent their bodies rejecting the new organ - carry their own side-effects. Diabetes and osteoporosis are among the consequences of medication which can also lead to renal failure, cardiac ...
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
San Luis Obispo Tribune - Witnesses present during the attempt to harvest 25-year-old disabled man Ruben Navarro’s organs in 2006 at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo gave many inconsistent statements to police, a lead investigator testified Monday ...
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
- DaVita Patient Citizens Promotes National Kidney Month Programs to Combat Spread of Kidney Disease; Incidence on the Rise Nationwide -
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
The government Tuesday said it was planning to set up an organ bank on the lines of eye banks to stop the illegal transplant of body parts, like the recent unmasking of the kidney racket that spanned several continents.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
New Delhi, March 4 : The government Tuesday said it was planning to set up an organ bank on the lines of eye banks to stop the illegal transplant of body parts, like the recent unmasking of the kidney racket that spanned several continents.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
LifeCycle Pharma A/S (OMX: LCP), announced positive to top-line results from a completed Phase II clinical trial for LCP-Tacro in stable kidney transplant patients.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
Researchers in France and the US have concluded that for youngerpatients in the final stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD), survival is lengthened by transplanting both lungs compared toonly one lung. The study, performed by Dr Gabriel Thabut, Service...
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
The European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and World Kidney Day organisations today call for European
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
BRUSSELS, Belgium----The European Kidney Health Alliance and World Kidney Day organisations today call for European health polices to support early identification and treatment of chronic kidney disease .
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Marcos, who joined UPMC in August 2002 as clinical director of transplantation after serving two years as director of the solid organ transplant program at the University of Rochester.
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Monday, 03 March 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer - PITTSBURGH - The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center says the chief of its organ transplant division is resigning. Dr. Amadeo Marcos came to UPMC in 2002 and replaced Dr. John Fung as transplant chief in 2004 when Fung left for The Cleveland ...
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Monday, 03 March 2008
PR Inside - Department of Health & Human Services more than 13,500 Hispanics are on waiting lists for organ transplants accounting for 15 percent of all organ transplant wait listed patients.
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Monday, 03 March 2008
CNN - SAN LUIS OBISPO, California (CNN) -- A respected California transplant doctor faces charges he hastened a comatose man's death to retrieve his organs -- a far-reaching case that could impact the nation's organ donation industry. Ruben Navarro had ...
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Monday, 03 March 2008
WLTX.com - Columbia (WLTX) - Warren Wilson was born with only one working kidney, and is hoping to receive a new vital organ from his friend. On Sunday, Wilson was induced into a coma at Palmetto Richland, after fluid began to build up in his lungs. Wilson had ...
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Monday, 03 March 2008
Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the kideny transplant racket, on Monday claimed he had performed 250-300 surgeries and said he has no remorse for his actions.
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Monday, 03 March 2008
Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the kideny transplant racket, on Monday claimed he had performed 250-300 surgeries and said he has no remorse for his actions.
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Monday, 03 March 2008
Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the kideny transplant racket, on Monday claimed he had performed 250-300 surgeries and said he has no remorse for his actions.
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Monday, 03 March 2008
The Columbia man in need of a kidney transplant to save his life is doing better Monday. What's more, organizers say the fundraiser for Warren Wilson was a success.
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Monday, 03 March 2008
Rediff - Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the kideny transplant racket, on Monday claimed he had performed 250-300 surgeries and said he has no remorse for his actions. Kumar said the Human Organ Transplant Act in the country was "so stringent" that "people ...
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Monday, 03 March 2008
CNN Money - ... and to attach conditions on sales of immunosuppressants -- the latter in coordination with other producers. Actares sees a direct link between the sale of immunosuppressive drugs -- given to patients after they received an organ transplant to prevent ...
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Monday, 03 March 2008
MSN UK News - ... district attorney who faces a moral dilemma when his daughter becomes seriously ill and needs a life-saving lung transplant ... But things go awry when he realises there's a grim trade in organ harvesting.
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Monday, 03 March 2008
WHOI - Eventually, patients may require a lung transplant. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network reports 1,336 lung transplants were performed in the U.S. last year.
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Monday, 03 March 2008
Norrn News - When I found out I needed an organ transplant hardly anybody new about transplants. When I received mine and went on the road and had the opportunity to talk with literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians, most Canadians did not know much about ...
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Monday, 03 March 2008
Zee News - Jaipur, March 03: A local court on Monday extended the police custody of organ transplant racket prime accused Dr Amit Kumar for another two days in connection with a case pertaining to removal of a man's kidney in a village here in 1995. During his ...
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Monday, 03 March 2008
A local court on Monday extended police custody of organ transplant racket prime accused Dr Amit Kumar for another two days.
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Monday, 03 March 2008
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
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Monday, 03 March 2008
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
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Monday, 03 March 2008
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
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Monday, 03 March 2008
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
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Monday, 03 March 2008
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
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Monday, 03 March 2008
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
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