Archive for the ‘Transplants / Organ Donations’ Category
Friday, March 7th, 2008
EBMT, the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, will host over 4,000 top scientists, physicians, nurses, caregivers, patients and their families, and others during its 5-day Annual Congress in Florence, Italy. This meeting is a forum for the scientific exchange between physicians, nurses, and data managers, as ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Combination therapy of Prostacyclin, Sildenafil, and Bosentan helped a young male patient with severe portopulmonary hypertension improve enough to receive a liver transplant. It was also used post-transplant to help him maintain his health. These findings are published in the March issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal by John Wiley ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
LifeCycle Pharma A/S (OMX: LCP), announced positive to top-line results from a completed Phase II clinical trial for LCP-Tacro in stable kidney transplant patients. Data demonstrated that LCP-Tacro, a once daily immunosuppression drug for the treatment of kidney transplant patients, has a potential best-in-class profile when compared to the currently ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
More young people in Canada diagnosed with kidney failure are surviving, and one key explanation is an increase in the use of kidney transplantation in young patients. This finding comes from the Canadian Institute for Health Information's (CIHI) Treatment of End-Stage Organ Failure in Canada, 1996 to 2007,(2007 Annual Report),a ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 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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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Clinical solid organ transplantation is a great success story, and when permanent failure of the kidney, liver, heart, or lung occurs, replacement by transplant is the preferred treatment option. Today with 1-year graft survivals approaching 90% the number of waiting recipients far outstrips organ supply, which ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The National Kidney Registry and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced the successful completion of three simultaneous living donor transplants in one of the nation's first triple swaps involving a donor chain. The surgeries took place last week on Valentine's Day and all six donors and recipients are doing well. ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Staff and customers at hundreds of the UK's top businesses are being offered the opportunity to become lifesavers thanks to a new partnership between Business in the Community and UK Transplant to encourage more people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR). By appealing to its 800-strong membership to ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
On Valentine's Day, one of the nation's first three-way living-donor kidney transplant chains was initiated by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and its medical partner The Rogosin Institute. The innovative approach - a NEAD (never-ending altruistic donor) chain - may dramatically improve the opportunity for patients in need of kidney ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
During Australian Organ Donor Awareness Week, the AMA is urging Australians who want to be organ donors to make their intent clear by registering as a donor and talking to their family about their wishes. AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said one of the most common reasons a potential organ ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
The shortage of donated organs for transplants is to be highlighted in a national press advertising campaign featuring eye-catching body art. The images feature a male and female model with a picture of a heart painted on their bodies under the message: 'You've got what it takes to save a ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
A life-saving mail drop in the Midlands aims to tackle the fact that the area has the lowest proportion of people on the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR) in the country. From February more than 2.9 million homes in the region will receive the special leaflet inviting people to join ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
In the world of organ donation, it has been common practice to exclude older patients from receiving transplants because of limited donor supply and lower survival rates.However, patients such as Lois Tumanello, who received a successful lung transplant at 65, are proving that perhaps age does not always matter.A new ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
There is a large and growing "treatment gap" between the number of patients worldwide who would benefit from an organ transplant and the number of organs available, a gap that is impacting transplant medicine markets, according to a new market research report from Kalorama Information, Organ Transplant Immunosuppressive ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Lux Biosciences, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company specialized in the field of ophthalmic diseases, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for LX201, a silicone matrix ocular (episcleral) implant that steadily releases therapeutic doses of cyclosporine A locally to the eye to ...
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