Local woman dies after fight with cancerThe News HeraldKayte Hollingsworth, 26, of Lynn Haven died Sunday following a long battle with fibrolemellar hepatocellular carcinoma – a rare form of liver cancer. Hollingsworth was undergoing experimental tre…
State hotfoots plan for organ retrieval centresTimes of IndiaIn order to give a leg-up to organ donation in the state, the health department recently issued a Government Resolution (GR) stating that hospitals with an operation theatre (OT) and an inten…
By Makayla Moore Ben Stevermer (center) received a liver transplant at the age of 13 months. He is pictured with his wife Kayla and mother Sandi at a Donor Alliance recognition dinner held in Casper for the families of organ donors from Colorado and Wy…
Established in 1827, world-renowned University of Toronto is Canada’s largest university, with a history that reads like a greatest hits compilation. The student body has included 10 Nobel Laureates. Over the past two decades, its professors have…
India, Sept. 18 — The gift of life does not come from one's parents only; even relatives, friends or strangers can save your life by donating an organ. Over the last four decades, cases of organ transplantation have grown across the world. In Indi…
Doctors at Duke University have successfully completed a double-lung transplant on Jason Egbert, the Rexburg native who needed the life-saving procedure to combat complications from cystic fibrosis.
PLAINFIELD — Transplant recipients from all over the state, and a few from even further away, traveled to Plainfield over the weekend to participate in the first Transplant Groupie Picnic.
This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published on Sept.17, 2012, in the JCI: A non-invasive method to track Huntington's disease progression; Improving pancreatic islet tr…
India Appeals Body Rejects Bayer's Plea to Suspend Sales of Generic NexavarFox BusinessCiting the high cost of the kidney- and liver-cancer medicine, India's patent authority in March forced Bayer to grant a compulsory license on the Nexavar to…
As kidney disease kills thousands across continents, scientists scramble for …Huffington Post (blog)A mysterious form of chronic kidney disease — CKD — is afflicting thousands of people in rural, agricultural communities in Sri Lanka, India and Cen…