Archive for the ‘Transplants / Organ Donations’ Category
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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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
In a bid to reduce the growing black market in kidneys for transplant, particularly from poor Filipino donors, the authorities in Manila have permanently banned organ transplants for foreigners in the country. A temporary ban was already in place but has now been replaced by the permanent ban.The law ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Donate Life America and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) are using the month of April to educate Americans about the number of lives that could be saved and improved through organ, eye and tissue transplants. Organizations, including Allsup, which represents people nationwide for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Surgeons at the The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, have carried out the first simultaneous six-way kidney transplant operation involving six donors and six recipients that were paired using a "domino" system that relies on altruistic donation to facilitate better matching of recipients with volunteer donors.The whole procedure, ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
The Department of Health announced the appointment of a new 'transplant tsar' to drive forward Government plans to increase the number of people who can benefit from an organ transplant. On 16 January, Ministers accepted recommendations made by the Organ ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) is one of only a few centers in Canada that perform living donor liver transplantation, a surgical procedure developed in the late 1980s that expands the organ donor pool. About 80 liver transplants are done a year in Alberta, 10 of those being living-donor.All ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
The country's oldest existing motorsport club is giving a boost to the drive to encourage more people to become potential lifesavers by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register. The 1,800-member Midland Automobile Club - which was founded in Birmingham on 11 January 1901 - is backing the call for more ...
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