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• Maine girl bouncing back after 6-organ transplant

  
  Washington Examiner — Authority: 704
  CLARKE CANFIELD Associated Press HOLLIS, Maine ...
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• Source Of Damage To Donor Organs Identified

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 694
  For patients with incurable pulmonary conditions, a lung transplantation is the only available treatment option. However, suitable donor organs are scarce, and even getting them to prospective recipients is not easy. As Professor Alexander Dietrich of the Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at LMU ...
  4 hours ago

• Geography Over Need Is Putting Sicker Patients Needing Lung Transplant At Higher Risk Of Dying

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 694
  The current system for allocating donated lungs based on proximity and not on need appears to decrease the potential benefits of lung transplantation and increase the number of patients who die waiting, researchers said at an annual meeting of thoracic surgeons in Fort Lauderdale, Fla...
  1 day ago

• Maine girl comes home after life-saving operation

  
  Washington Examiner - Opinion Section — Authority: 130
  The Associated Press The Associated Press BOSTON A 9-year-old Maine girl is heading home after a groundbreaking multiple organ transplant at ...
  2 days ago

• Post-Liver Transplantation Survival May Be Predicted By Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 694
  Researchers from the U.K. determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following liver transplantation. Study results available in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association ...
  2 days ago

• Improved Kidney Transplant Survival In Mice; New Agent Likely To Speed Replacement Of Other Organs

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 694
  New research published online in the FASEB Journal details a new antibody, called "OPN-305" that may significantly improve survival outcomes for those receiving donated kidneys and other organs. OPN-305 works by preventing inflammation triggered by oxygen deprivation in the donated organ, allowing for better recovery ...
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• Gum Disease and Heart Disease – A Strong Connection

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  Benjamin Franklin once quoted she laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. We can now probably add and a healthy heart. Recent research studies have shown a striking association between poor dental hygiene and coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease may be responsible for 20% of deaths ...
  4 days ago

• Increased Risk For Transplant Patients Who Develop Head & Neck Cancer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 694
  Transplant patients who develop head and neck cancer are more likely to be non-smokers and non-drinkers, and less likely than their non-transplant counterparts to survive past one year of diagnosis, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. As part of a 20-year review, Henry Ford researchers found ...
  4 days ago

• In Development - System To Deliver Organ Transplant Drug Without Harmful Side Effects

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 694
  A new system for delivering a drug to organ transplant patients, which could avoid the risk of harmful side effects, is being developed by scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The drug, cyclosporine (CsA), is widely used in transplant operations and helps prevent the patients body rejecting the ...
  4 days ago

• Stopping Immunosuppressive Prednisone Soon After Transplantation Found To Be Safe

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 694
  Rapid discontinuation of the immunosuppressive steroid prednisone after a kidney transplant can help prevent serious side effects, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Also, doing so does not appear to jeopardize the long-term survival ...
  6 days ago

• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation As A Bridge To Lung Transplantation

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 694
  Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support in awake, non-intubated patients may be an effective strategy for bridging patients to lung transplantation, according to a new study from Germany. "As waiting times for donor organs continue to increase, so does the need for bridging strategies for patients with ...
  1 week ago

• Having A Good Time Despite That You’re By Yourself

  
  Health till 100 — Authority: 132
  There comes a point in your life whenever you start to realize that all your buddies start to have boyfriends or girlfriends, and it is only you that is left with nobody. Truly, you could really feel that jealousy coming to your head, and due to thinking an excessive amount of of it; which you start to lose your hair ...
  2 weeks ago

• Packer Transplants #99 Podcast With Rob Demovsky

  
  Cheesehead TV — Authority: 498
  Download audio file (Transplants99.mp3) audio player - press play button Click here for a POP-OUT Audio Player While youre listening check out the live blogcast replay here. Download Versions: Download Podcast 99 Free Subscription Option Tweet
  2 weeks ago

• Lives Worth Saving

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Linda Jones (a former head of an organ procurement organization) and I (professor, liver post-transplant patient) started "Live Worth Saving" at the Ohio State University Medcial Center to address the national issue of organ transplantation and intellectual disabilities. Here are my thoughts on this topic. . ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lives Worth Saving

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Linda Jones (a former head of an organ procurement organization) and I (professor, liver post-transplant patient) started "Live Worth Saving" at the Ohio State University Medcial Center to address the national issue of organ transplantation and intellectual disabilities. Here are my thoughts on this topic. . ...
  2 weeks ago

• Packer Transplants 99 with Rob Demovsky

  
  Cheesehead TV — Authority: 498
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  2 weeks ago

• Final Packer Transplants Of 2011 Season Tonight!

  
  Cheesehead TV — Authority: 498
  Join me and my co-host Corey Behnke tonight for the final installment of  Packer Transplants  LIVE for the 2011 Packers season at 9pm EST/8pm CST. Corey and I are thrilled to be welcoming Rob Demovsky, Packers beat writer from the Green Bay Press Gazette as our very special guest this evening. We will talk about ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Lack of organ donors affecting liver transplants’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 506
  New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) The crunch in organ donations is affecting the number of transplants in India, a doctor said Wednesday, adding that nearly 25,000 patients need liver transplants annually but only 800 are able to get these.“Lack of donors who pledge to donate their organs after their death is affecting the ...
  2 weeks ago

• NJ parents: Disabled girl was denied transplant

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 137
  NJ parents: Disabled girl was denied transplant Associated Press read more
  2 weeks ago

• Pediatric Liver Transplant Graft Recipients Can Stay Off Immunosuppressant Medications

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 694
  A study in the January 18 issue of JAMA reveals that the majority of children who received liver transplant grafts from a parent were able to stay off immunosuppression therapy for at least 1 year with normal graft function after gradual withdrawal from the therapy. Individuals who receive a solid organ ...
  2 weeks ago

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