Stem cells from bone marrow may be better than blood when it comes to quality of life for transplant patients, study suggests Fred Hutch News ServiceA new study of blood stem-cell transplant patients found no difference in survival between p…
Don’t Throw Out Your Organ Donor Card After 65 The New York Times
Older organ donors, living or dead, are desirable for older recipients, who represent a growing proportion of transplant patients.
Hundreds of transplant patients given organs from dead cancer sufferers The IndependentHundreds of organs taken from dead cancer patients have been given to transplant patients because an acute shortage means doctors must take the risk, it h…
Organ Donation Week: Activities Held Across India To Encourage People To Support The Cause NDTVAs part of NDTV-Fortis’ More to Give campaign, we held several activities across the country to mark the organ donation week. Here are a few photo…
Cord blood transplant reduces chronic GVHD, late infection rates HealioAdult umbilical cord blood transplantation produced lower rates of chronic graft-versus-host disease than peripheral blood transplants from matched, unrelated …
How Science Helped Me Give My Wife A Kidney Inside Science News Service(Inside Science) — In June, my wife, Joanne, and I celebrated a somewhat unusual occasion: the 10th anniversary of her second kidney transplant. The unusual …
Cord blood outperforms matched, unrelated donor in bone marrow transplant Medical Xpress
Cord blood outperforms matched, unrelated donor in bone marrow transplant Medical Xpress
Cord blood outperforms matched, unrelated donor in bone marrow transplant Science DailyA new study finds that three years post-bone marrow transplant, the incidence of severe chronic graft-versus-host disease was 44 percent in patients who h…
Mainstreaming organ donation and political will needed to curb illegal transplants The News MinuteBy Dr. Edmond Fernandes and Dr. Neevan Dsouza) The story of organ donation dates back to 1965 when the first human kidney transplant was perfor…