TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Pluristem Therapeutics said another patient suffering from bone marrow failure was saved using its placenta-based stem cell treatment. This is the second time in three months that a patient suffering from bone marrow failure was su…
FLORISSANT, MO ( KPLR)- By just looking at him, you can’t tell anything is wrong with 6 -year-old Clayton Williams…
Area man received liver which allowed him to be there for his children Asians throughout the country are being reminded that they can help each other through organ and tissue donation. Diseases like Hepatitis B hit Asian populations harder than other g…
Scientists have demonstrated in the laboratory that a new drug is effective in treating a very common kidney disease — although it will be a few years before it becomes available for clinical testing.
People affected by the outbreak of hepatitis C at Exeter Hospital are invited to hear more about an experimental treatment for the liver disease at a medical and legal information night next week.
Children undergoing liver transplantation are at greater risk of graft loss and death from adult organ donors who are severely obese according to research published in the August issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for…
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* Young black patients and patients without private health insurance are less likely to be assessed for a kidney transplant when they start dialysis. * These patients are also less likely to be put on the transplant waiting list and to receive a kidney…
Ciaran Finn-Lynch is an accidental medical pioneer. With his life in danger, doctors used the 13-year-old's own stem cells to grow him a new windpipe, and they did it inside his body — a feat that's never been accomplished before.
State-of-the-art handwashing sinks installed in the intensive care unit and some patient rooms in Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital actually became the reservoir of a pesky drug-resistant bug that infected or colonized 66 patients from the fall of 200…