UCSD Medical Center |
Love of the Chargers leads to lifesaving surgery
fox5sandiego.com In October 2013, the two arrived at UC San Diego for the kidney transplant. Hospital officials said the transplant surgery was performed in two phases in adjacent operating rooms. What started as a friendship has made the friends family. “We’ll be … Football Fans Team Up for Organ MatchUCSD Medical Center |
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Mast Therapeutics Inc : Mast Therapeutics Releases Positive Data In Model Of …
4-traders (press release) Mast Therapeutics announced that, in a placebo-controlled, nonclinical model of chronic heart failure, MST-188 demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in numerous parameters of heart function, including left ventricular ejection fraction … Mast Therapeutics Provides Enrollment Update On Phase 3 “EPIC” Study Of …PR Newswire (press release) |
Mass. General research could expand availability of hand, face transplantsEurekAlert (press release)Building on previous TBRC animal studies, the researchers tested whether combining bone marrow transplantation with VCA could induce chimerism and toler…
Editorial: Some cheers, some jeers for our recent newsmakersEagle-TribuneCHEERS to MacKenzie Dias, who gave her sister the gift of life with a donated kidney. MacKenzie, a 2009 graduate of Andover High, donated a kidney to older sister Lindsey Dias, wh…
The State |
Community Calendar for the Midlands, Jan. 9
The State Glenforest students are involved in the Samaritan’s Feet Barefoot for Bare Feet movement and the Shoes for Hope Campaign and they will be accepting donations of new athletic-style shoes as well as monetary donations through Jan. 31. … ORGAN RECITAL … |
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Long Beach Cancer Nurse Seeks Stem Cell Donor
MyFox Los Angeles After another 6.5 years of being cancer free, Angie’s cancer recently returned again. This time tests indicate that her only hope for survival is a Stem Cell Transplant. None of Angie’s two children, eight siblings, or 22 nieces and nephews are a match … |
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Messages tie governor’s aide to NJ traffic jam
STLtoday.com Fort Lee Councilwoman Ila Kasofsky said she knows of one woman who couldn’t get over the bridge to be with her husband, who was undergoing a stem cell transplant, and another who couldn’t get to New York to be with her son as he went through kidney … |
Times of India |
Manyata rushed to hospital
Times of India When asked if it’s the tumour in the liver, which lead to the emergency admission, he said, “Right now, I’m not in a position to comment on this.” In a previous interview with the paper, the doctor had said, “Manyata has a 6 cm tumour in her liver and … |
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Two-sizes-too-small ‘Grinch’ effect hampers heart transplantation success
Science Daily (press release) Jan. 8, 2014 — Current protocols for matching donor hearts to recipients foster sex mismatching and heart size disparities, according to a first-of-its kind analysis by physicians at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Matching by donor … Finding the Right Heart for TransplantationdailyRx Why a Woman’s Heart Is a Bad Fit for a ManMedPage Today |
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Lawyer: Brain-dead teen Jahi McMath ‘improving’ under ‘optimistic’ doctors’ care
CNN Some medical ethicists have said the case has fed into a misperception that “brain death” is not death; that somehow, the body can live on, and that is life. It’s also sparked fierce emotion, and that is another reason the family is keeping quiet about … |