Lee Health kidney transplant program may fully resume this year after partial shutdown The News-PressLee Health’s kidney transplant program, which partially reopened one year ago, has completed 23 successful organ transplants. It will fully …
The Real Reasons You Shouldn’t Clone Your Dog Smithsonian.comIt’s easy to understand why someone would want to. It’s harder to justify the actual cloning process, both ethically and scientifically.
Whether the donor and recipient are male or female influences transplant rejection rates—investigators explore why Medical Xpress
Biological sex differences can have far-reaching, clinical consequences, as illustrated by organ transplant outcomes. Men and women who receive donated …
Abatacept may reduce graft-versus-host disease after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation HealioThe addition of abatacept to standard therapy reduced the incidence of severe acute graft-versus-host disease to less than 5%, according to ph…
Teenage twins needed liver transplants. One of them lived long enough to get his. Washington PostEighteen-year-old Devin Coats was fighting for a second chance to live. His brother, Nicholas, was waiting to die. The identical twin brothers h…
Goodwill explosion not related to Austin bombings, but stirred anxieties Austin American-StatesmanA military device in a donation box injured an employee at a South Austin Goodwill store Tuesday evening in an incident that local and federal …
Laois woman Claire Byrne of RTÉ gets behind Organ Donor Week 2018 Leinster Express
The Irish Kidney Association, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, is delighted to announce that Laois woman Claire Byrne has taken up the voluntary …
Raising awareness in hospitals lifts New Zealand’s organ donation rates Waikato TimesMore than 70 New Zealanders became deceased organ donors in 2017.
The Long March to Changing Chinese Minds About Organ Donation Sixth Tone
ZHEJIANG, East China — Almost overnight, the news that a local law enforcement officer had become an organ donor spread across the small city of Quzhou …
University Health Network is continent’s top organ transplant program Toronto Star
With the help of groundbreaking technology, the University Health Network became the largest adult organ transplant program in North America in 2017.