NMDP welcomes IOM recommendation for fully integrated cord blood system
... blood registry and the largest Registry of marrow donors in the world (more than 5.5 million adult donors)....abases, which shortens the average search time for donors and cord blood units to seconds. "We commend the IOM for calling for the inclusion of many important...Number and quality of kidney transplants much greater if national matching program adopted
...indings demonstrate that a national pool of kidney donors and recipients, combined with new mathematical tec...try, and nearly one-third of patients with willing donors are excluded from kidney transplantation because of blood-type and other incompatibilities, accordin...Kidney donation program may provide more matches for previously incompatible recipients and donors
...r number and quality of matches for recipients and donors that were incompatible, according to a study in th...ely, about one-third of patients with willing live donors will be excluded from kidney transplantation because of blood type or tissue incompatibility. Kidney...UCI eye doctors invent laser-assisted cornea-transplant surgery
...front window" of the eye, using living tissue from donors to replace corneas in which swelling, scars, distortions and degenerations are causing blindness. The work will be presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting, the largest eye research meeting in the world, in ...Soliciting organs over the Internet
...om , has already successfully paired several organ donors to recipients, which have resulted in seven succes... six months. The site lists nearly 2,000 potential donors offering a kidney or parts of a pancreas, liver, lung, bone marrow, or intestine. For a fee (waived ...Gender and sexual orientation influence preference for human body odors
...the odors of underarm sweat collected from 24 odor donors of varied gender and sexual orientation. Subjects made four comparisons, evaluating and chosing between odors from (i) heterosexual males versus gay males, (ii) heterosexual males versus heterosexual females, (iii) heterosexual females versus lesbia...Infants with rare genetic disease saved by cord blood stem cells
...red the use of umbilical cord blood from unrelated donors in 1993 and her team has treated and saved more ch...h. Adult bone marrow must be harvested from living donors through an invasive surgical procedure. Finally, cord blood cells are less mature than adult bone m...Umbilical cord-blood transplants save lives of babies with rare genetic disorder
...splantation of umbilical-cord blood from unrelated donors following chemotherapy. These infants were then evaluated periodically for up to six years. Twenty-two of the 25 infants received cord-blood transplants at Duke University Medical Center; the other three were transplanted at hospitals in St. Louis; G...Stanford bioethicists want stronger protections for women donating eggs for stem cell research
...study were treated. However, unlike blood or sperm donors these women undergo considerable risk - donating e...ble risk in order to benefit other people. But egg donors don't quite fit this mold either, the authors note. Research subjects get some benefit from their pa...World Bank and IMF preventing transfer of foreign aid to HIV/AIDS programmes
... ceilings create a clear disincentive for external donors to offer desperately needed financing, state the authors. This is because the IMF requires that countries include the value of all new donor funding received for initiatives, such as scaling up antiretroviral treatment, in their health budgets. If a ...University of Pittsburgh study shows using expanded critera donors is safe
...patitis B) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV) positive donors had similar graft and patient survival compared to patients who received HBcAb negative or HCV negative livers, according to a study by the University of Pittsburgh's Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute. The results of their findings are being...Studies suggest that donation criteria can be expanded
...couraged by our success using organs from deceased donors that would ordinarily have been discarded," said R...an Sharing (UNOS) expanded the criteria for kidney donors so that higher risk donor organs, once considered unsuitable, could now be transplanted safely. The ...Transplanting kidneys which have stones poses little risk to organ's viability
...e're expanding the criteria with transplant. Thus, donors with, say, a very small stones or hypertension are now considered." Helping patients is the reason for investigating transplant of kidneys that previously would have been considered questionable, explain Dr. Ho and Dr. Chow. "Our motivation is to s...Swedish researchers first in the world to gain access to BIMS
...enotype and genotype information on the individual donors and to a variety of other data sources. The existence of large national epidemiological databases, such as the Swedish twin register, and a large number of tissue sample collections of national importance gives the Karolinska Institutet Biobank a uni...Promising new TB drug enters clinical trial
...e worked creatively and smartly with our partners, donors and contractors, combining our ability to move the technology forward with the expert management of RTI International and all of NIAID's contributions. The result is that a promising TB compound moved into human trials in near-record time."...Saving six million children each year is affordable
...overnments of even the poorest nations, if outside donors provide funds to buildup the health systems of the... reflects a choice being made by policy makers and donors a choice that allows 6 million children to die each year, over 16,000 each day." In an accompanying...$5.1 billion would save 6 million children
...isn't necessary. It is our hope that policymakers, donors and governments will use our price estimates to strengthen their health systems. If they don't, 16,000 children will continue to die each day as a result," said Jennifer Bryce, EdD, lead author of the study. This study follows a series of articles by...Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
... past due to insufficient local planning, and that donors and developing countries should learn from these mistakes as the number of people requiring therapy continues to grow. "Local health officials are faced with the unenviable and difficult task of having to decide who will get therapy and live, and w...... Nursing and Midwifery Studies recruited 11 kidney donors and their recipients from a regional transplant ce...hysical and psychological risks, he found that all donors made instant, voluntary decisions to donate and did not regret doing so. "However, recipients origin......ch. Nearly 100 Foundation leaders, volunteers, and donors (individuals, groups, foundations, and corporations) have made substantial multi-year commitments with unrestricted, restricted, or deferred components, raising over $1.6 million dollars for vision research....