Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
... that older patients might be better candidates to donate and receive available organs. From October 2001 through February 2004, Wake Forest Baptist transplanted 144 kidneys from deceased donors and found that a minimum of one year after surgery, transplant patients who were over age 60 did as well as young...Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?
...ed recipients. Many women altruistically choose to donate cord blood for unrelated recipients to public banks. However, private banks are now open that offer expectant parents the option to pay a fee for the chance to store cord blood for possible future use by that same child (known as an autologous tran...Mayo Clinic study finds obese kidney donors face few increased risks
...tates, the number of obese individuals offering to donate a kidney to a friend or loved one is rising. Recognizing this trend, Mayo physicians reviewed the extensive living donor experience at Mayo to examine outcomes in obese donors. "We know that obesity is rising in our population, and while that is not...Blacks and poor more likely to donate than receive many types of transplant organs
...s and poor people were more likely to receive than donate kidneys. This is probably due to two factors. Fi...pousal transplants. Wives were twice as likely to donate to husbands than husbands to wives. Sehgal emphasized the need to understand the causes of dispariti...Leukemia patients survive with stem cell transplant
...carded after a baby's birth. New mothers can donate cord blood immediately after delivery. Ordinarily, the placenta (the afterbirth), and the cord blood it contains, is discarded. Now a trained technician can collect the cord blood which remains in the placenta after the baby is born and the cord is...Plastic surgeons honor 'Patients of Courage' overcoming difficult obstacles, inspiring others
... Tina Driskell of Vienna, Va., did not hesitate to donate part of her liver. Two years later, she developed an aggressive tumor on the scar from her surgery. Although surgeons were able to remove the tumor, Driskell had a severely deformed abdomen that required multiple reconstructive plastic surgeries. Des...U-M team treating mouth wounds by engineering tissue grafts
...uctive surgery where the patient cannot physically donate enough tissue for repairs. Though this treatment is still in the early stages of approval, Feinberg already is looking down the road. He has begun to separate the stem cells from the harvested piece of tissue, because stem cells divide more ...Would it be worth it to pay for donated kidneys?
...y, a poorer person is more likely to be induced to donate than a millionaire," he says. He also notes that if society decided to pay living kidney donors, it may become necessary to pay all donors -- living and deceased -- and to pay for other organs as well. "Does that change how much you can pay? Absolut......requests of living donors who have come forward to donate a kidney to anyone on the transplant waiting list,...and accommodate offers from donors volunteering to donate an organ to a recipient unknown to them. "Traditionally, transplant programs have not accepted pote...Less invasive kidney transplant technique spurring donations
...lt is a greater number of people coming forward to donate a kidney. Statistics from the hospital confirm thi...ith the greater number of people coming forward to donate thanks to the laparoscopic technique, the demand for kidneys still far outstrips supply. More than 5...American Academy of Ophthalmology announces Special Recognition Award recipients
... volunteer eye surgeons from all over the world to donate their time and talents to restore the sight of the disadvantaged blind in medically underserved areas. Currently, more than 700 eye surgeons have joined SEE as volunteers. In 2002, SEE conducted 98 sight-restoring surgical expeditions in 53 countries...The trojan clot-buster: Drug-coated red blood cells destroy blood clots from within
...ects," said Muzykantov. "In theory, patients could donate blood before surgery and receive their own cells bound to tPA following surgery, providing a safer alternative to blood-thinning medication." Research has shown that preventing thrombosis helps to reduce mortality and morbidity in many diseases. Un...Why do patients choose not to donate tissue?
...views and recorded reasons why patients refused to donate tissue, and whether involvement of commercial comp...e about forthcoming surgery and will choose not to donate tissue....Thymus transplant might save babies born without immune systems
...nd chance for another sick child, are delighted to donate tissue that otherwise would be discarded," said Markert. In treating babies with complete DiGeorge Syndrome, the Duke physicians aim to complete the thymus transplant as soon as possible after diagnosis. The children in the current study ranged in ag...9/11 boosted trust in government, temporary distress, research shows
...r fathers. Men, but not women, were more likely to donate blood following 9/11 than they were before. "Add Health provides an unprecedented description of the reactions of young adults in the U.S. to the events of Sept. 11, 2001," the authors wrote. If similar events occur in the future, "based on this stud......ts that die from drug overdoses or poisoning could donate their healthy organs to patients needing transplant operations. These findings could increase the number of organs available, saving the lives of people who die waiting for a transplant. There is currently a global shortage of healthy organs availabl...Fred Hutchinson oversees two grants of nearly $8 million to develop blood test for breast cancer
... Sound - will provide risk assessment of women who donate blood and tissue specimens for analysis. Institute for Systems Biology - will contribute cutting-edge technology to ensure integration of the newest molecular approaches to genomics and proteomics. Pacific Northwest Research Institute - will contri...Selling a kidney does not benefit the seller
...transplantation, providing financial incentives to donate is often proposed or justified as a way to benefit recipients by increasing the supply of organs and to benefit donors by improving their economic status. In the United States, most organs for transplantation come from brain dead individuals whose f...Water may prevent some fainting spells
... might help prevent fainting in healthy people who donate blood," adds Robertson, a professor of medicine, pharmacology, and neurology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn. Both teams conducted their research in a similar manner, which involved using tilt-table testing. In that te...Tissue engineers steering stem cells to produce bone, cartilage
...ring for cartilage or bone repairs will be able to donate their own stem cells prior to the procedure, reducing the likelihood of infection and tissue rejection. MIT's Technology Review magazine recently recognized Elisseeff, 28, as one of the World's Top 100 Young Innovators in technology and business. He...