NPR |
HIV-Positive Organ Transplants Set To Begin At Johns Hopkins
NPR So we did a study to try to estimate how many potential HIV-positive deceased donors there would be. And it turns out that it’s about 500 per year. So if you think about 500 donors per year — deceased donors — that’s over 1,000 organs, so that’s over … |
Tech TimesWounded Soldier Picked To Receive First US Penis TransplantTech TimesA soldier whose genitals were severely damaged in a bomb explosion will receive the first penis transplant in the United States. Doctors at Johns Hopkins explained the penis…
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Community Foundation to provide $1 million through largest scholarship pool
Frederick News Post (subscription) Ann Burnside Love, one of the donors, said her family’s scholarship fund was created in honor of her husband, a beloved doctor in the community who died in a car crash. The Ann Burnside Love and Thomas A. Love, M.D., Family Scholarship Fund’s next … |
Mic |
Johns Hopkins Surgeons Are About to Attempt the US’ First Penis Transplant
Mic The penis is not included among the organs doctors are permitted to harvest from an organ donor. Potential matches would only come from suitable donors by special permission from the deceased’s family. “We’re looking at the age of the patient and … |
Sydney Morning Herald |
7 kidney donors, 7 recipients, 6 hospitals, 3 cities. What could possibly go wrong?
Sydney Morning Herald The beauty of the paired kidney exchange program is that it makes transplants available to people who might otherwise die waiting for them. “If they stay on the deceased–donor waiting list, some of them have a chance of a match as low as one in 100 … |
Cumberland News Now |
Giving the gift of life
Cumberland News Now Darcy was especially surprised about Canada’s rate of deceased organ donors: 15 per million people – and that the country operates with an opt-in system for donation, but that ultimately the decision comes down to the family. “It’s something I didn’t … |
Philly.com |
Cancer questions over popular diabetes drugs raise furor
Philly.com Using animal models and pancreases from deceased human organ donors, Butler’s group found that incretin therapy made certain pancreas cells multiply. This increased the weight of the organs. The therapy also seemed to fuel the growth of precancerous … |
Hopkins to perform first HIV+ transplantsJohns Hopkins News-LetterHowever, it is important to note that patients without HIV will not receive organs from HIV-positive donors. According to Segev, the first main focus for Hopkins will be on deceased dono…
Scroll.in |
Sri Lankan Tamils around the world have built an online library to replace one torched in 1981
Scroll.in The library gives scholars access to documents they will not find elsewhere including pamphlets produced by Sri Lanka’s Muslim political parties and traditional documents Tamil families produce as a kind of a comprehensive obituary for their deceased … |
CPI-M disrupts Ker assembly proceedings leading to adjournmentBusiness StandardWith a view to helping families of organ donors, government would bear a portion of their treatment expenses. A detailed … The deceased Shibu was attacked by a group of dr…