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Live-donor allograft decreases risk of acute kidney injury post-liver transplant
Healio “Both groups included adults with end-stage liver disease who received either right lobe partial liver allografts from living donors or full livers from deceased donors,” Hilmi told Healio.com/Hepatology. “Patients with fulminant liver failure or a … |
Madison.com |
Efforts aim to reimburse or pay living organ donors
Madison.com The group also raised the idea of covering funeral costs for families of deceased donors. Derse, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, said giving donors indirect payments could have the unintended consequence of lowering donation rates. “The people … |
North Somerset Times |
Health crisis fears due to drop in donors
North Somerset Times Four out of 10 families are refusing to allow their deceased relatives’ organs to be donated, according to the NHS blood and transplant department. NHS bosses believe a revolution in attitudes towards organ donation is needed to prevent hundreds of … |
ABC Online |
Australian doctors forced to recycle diseased kidneys for transplant due to …
ABC Online They’re well enough to have a transplant, but if they wait on the waiting list for a deceased donor transplant for too long, maybe their health will deteriorate, maybe they won’t be well enough and may they will no longer be fit enough to have that … |
Chicago Tribune |
Mokena infant back home after life saved by liver transplant
Chicago Tribune After a stream of potential living donors were tested, it was a deceased donor who saved the baby’s life. Mohammad said it speaks to the need for organ donation. “Nathan’s an example of how a transplant can change a child’s and a family’s life,” he said. |
Pontefract and Castleford Express |
Can dentists give you Alzheimer’s? Shocking evidence unveiled
Pontefract and Castleford Express Treatment of people of short stature with pituitary growth hormone taken from dead donors began in the UK in 1958. It was stopped in 1985 after confirmed reports of CJD among recipients. Because growth hormone from different cadavers was mixed up … No evidence that Alzheimer’s can be transmitted through surgeryNHS Choices Can Alzheimer’s Be Transmitted? There Might Be A Theoretical PossibilityJewocity.com (press release) (blog) |
Kidney Walk coming up in Stittsvillewww.ottawacommunitynews.com/The success rate for a kidney transplant from a living donor is 90 to 95 percent with the transplanted kidney lasting 15 to 20 years on average. For transplants from a deceased donor, the …
Telegraph.co.uk |
Alzheimer’s disease may be caught through medical accidents
Telegraph.co.uk Treatment of people of short stature with pituitary growth hormone taken from dead donors began in the UK in 1958. It was stopped in 1985 after confirmed reports of CJD among recipients. Because growth hormone from different cadavers was mixed up … No evidence that Alzheimer’s can be transmitted through surgeryNHS Choices Can Alzheimer’s Be Transmitted? There Might Be A Theoretical PossibilityJewocity.com (press release) (blog) Discontinued hormone injections linked to the transmission of a proteinLid Time – Weird News, Entertainment, News Headlines (blog) Rapid News Network all 149 news articles » |
South China Morning Post (subscription) |
‘His eyes seemed to tell us ‘I’ll give it my best”: Hongkonger Stephen Lee …
South China Morning Post (subscription) Doctors had cut open cirrhosis patient Stephen Lee’s abdomen on August 25 ready for the operation at Queen Mary Hospital in in Pok Fu Lam, but were forced to stop when it emerged the dead donor had been suffering from kidney cancer. The 46-year-old … |
Banbury GuardianTake science to people deprived of basic facilities in life, says Dr. Harsh …Business StandardMalayalam cine actor Mohanlal, the Goodwill Ambassador for Organ Donation, felicitated the families of donors of the first two twin hand tra…