Archive for the ‘Transplants / Organ Donations’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Does organ transplantation work as well in HIV-positive patients as in those without HIV infection? A new systematic review of six studies indicates that the jury is still out, but an important new trial is under way that may provide answers. The analysis of current data on kidney and liver ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
People in Wales will now be able to join the Organ Donor Register when they visit their local pharmacy as part of the Donate Wales - Tell a Loved One campaign. Registration leaflets and dispensers have been delivered to all 719 pharmacies in Wales including high street retailers ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The Australian Medical Association congratulated the Rudd Government on its multi-million dollar proposal to assist in the organ transplant rate in Australia.AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said the answer to the organ transplant problem was not just about increasing the number of donations."The Government's new funding of $136.4 million goes ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Doctors expressed their disappointment today (Wednesday 2 July) that the UK lags far behind other European countries in the level of organ donation, and called on UK governments to do more to increase awareness about the importance of this issue.Commenting on the House of Lords European Union Committee report on ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
The House of Lords European Union Committee has welcomed EU proposals for a European directive on the quality and safety of organ donation and transplantation but has stressed that, in establishing minimum standards across Europe, the EU must not impose requirements ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Can split liver transplantation reliably yield grafts for two adults? Experts consider this question alongside new findings about the procedure in the July issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal by John Wiley & Sons. The articles are also available online at Wiley Interscience (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/).The shortage of donor organs has led ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Higher levels of the immune protein interleukin-6 (IL-6), a biomarker for inflammation, are associated with decreased survival in patients receiving organs for transplant from brain-dead donors, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers report in the June issue of Critical Care Medicine, the official journal of the Society of Critical ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities is one of the goals of Healthy People 2010, the nation's roadmap to improving the health of all Americans. To address this challenge, the Center for Minority Health (CMH) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health has joined forces with researchers, ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
England cricketer Andy Caddick joins Sam & Sean O'Brien's campaign to add one million people to the organ donor register in 2008Sean O'Brien has cancer and urgently needs a liver transplant. Despite being told that he does not meet the criteria for the limited number of available organs available in ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
While gardening gloves and golf balls will be typical presents in thousands of homes this Father's Day, one special group of dads can thank their children for something far more valuable - the gift of life. Figures from NHS UK Transplant show that at least 125 children - 74 ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
ParkwayHealth, Asia's leading healthcare provider with the largest network of private hospitals and healthcare services headquartered in Singapore and the first in Asia to perform a living donor liver transplant (LDLT) in 2002, reports that its Gleneagles Hospital has performed over one hundred successful LDLT procedures to date. With the ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
A gap in survival rates between whites and minorities who had received a liver transplant appears to have been eliminated, possibly due to the introduction of a new medication to prevent organ rejection, new research finds, Reuters reports. Johnny Hong of the University of California-Los Angeles David Geffen School of ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The number of living organ donors can be increased if more employers offered paid leave to employees who act as live organ donors. That is the message of the American Society of Transplantation's (AST) new outreach campaign, which is aimed at corporations, institutions and local/state governments. "Living individuals who give ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
New research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows long-term survival and liver rejection rates are equivalent for African-American liver transplant patients as compared with patients of other races. The study also suggests that although other factors such as liver cancer or hepatitis may negatively influence ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Diabetes UK Cymru is supporting a campaign to encourage more people to register to donate their organs in Wales.During the last five years more than 750 lives have been transformed by a transplant, but more than 150 people have died before a donor could be found.The campaign, which will run ...
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