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Elizabeth Hovde: Make it easier to donate to help brain research
OregonLive.com Helping veterans recover could be aided by learning from the injured brains of deceased soldiers, seeing brains in recovery stages and comparing victims’ brains with healthy ones. While the brain bank … Leslie Brock, the executive director of Donate … |
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Nurse To Donate Kidney To Shirley Firefighter
CBS Local “The availability of deceased donor kidneys is inadequate and that’s why live donors can make an amazing difference in people’s (lives),” Medical Director of Kidney Transplant Dr. Elliot Herer said. Deshler will undergo surgery here at MGH and he says … |
news9.com KWTVFind Information About:WebMDLung tissue samples from deceased children appeared to suffer damage when exposed to e-cigarette vapor in the laboratory, researchers reported in a recent issue of the journal PLOS One. The vapor triggered a st…
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Overhauling China’s organ transplant system could take some time
Chinadaily USA By 2011, Huang reported that 65 percent of the transplants in China used organs from deceased donors and 90 percent of those were executed prisoners. That same year, Arthur L. Caplan, the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Director of the Center for Bioethics … |
FEHI doctors successfully performs heart transplantation on a 16 year old patientpharmabiz.comThis limits donation to one kidney or a part of the liver. Transplantation of the heart, lungs, pancreas and small intestine is possible only with donation fo…
Chabad.orgInternational Arrivals: 8 Torah Scrolls Dedicated to Victims of Terror in IsraelChabad.orgEyal Yifrach, Naftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar will not be forgotten. In so many ways, the worldwide Jewish community has made it a point over the last s…
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Transplant law fine print hobbles sole tissue bank
Times of India Though in existence since 1988, the tissue bank at Tata Memorial Hospital in Parel, is fighting for its place in the ambit of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act that mainly deals with donations from the deceased, and not living individuals. Tata’s … |
KGUN 9AZ sets record for tissue donationKGUN 9A team of five surgeons at the University of Arizona performed this rare surgery. The wait for a deceased liver donor was so long, doctors decided a live donor–in this case, the mother–was the best option.
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First week of 2015 sees first cadaver donation of year
Times of India ZTCC’s Dr Sujata Patwardhan said, “It is good that we have had a donor right in the first week of the year. But we need more hospitals to take part in the process.” At present, only eight hospitals have identified brain-dead patients in their ICUs and … |
Top Highlights in Hepatology: The Liver Meeting 2014MedscapeGoldberg and colleagues examined national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing data from 2002 to 2012 to determine whether LDLT (n = 2103) conferred a…