Lying in a hospital bed at the University of Michigan Health System after receiving a bone marrow transplant for at the age of 19, then-college student Andrew Harris was focused on survival. As the newly-transplanted cells turned against him…
Transplantation is one of the most challenging and complex areas of modern medicine. Some of the key areas for medical management are the problems of transplant rejection which occurs when a transplanted organ or tissue is not accepted by the body of …
Surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston will perform the nation’s first double arm transplant on a Texas woman, the hospital announced Wednesday. Katy Hayes, 44, a quadruple amputee and mother of three from Kingwood, Texas, has been appr…
MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — IncellDx, Inc. announced today that it has initiated a large-scale study called SLIQUE ( s tudy to compare s li deless and li qu id-based Pap sm e ars). …
Title: Young Children Treated for Cancer May Be at Risk for PTSD: Study Category: Health News Created: 9/10/2012 2:05:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 9/11/2012 12:00:00 AM
Researchers have enhanced agene therapy approach for children with adenosine deaminase-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency using chemotherapy as conditioning regimen. For the first time, investigators test two different viral vectors to transpor…
( University of Maryland Medical Center ) Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have conducted the first direct comparison of the regenerative abilities of neonatal and adult-derived human cardiac stem cells. Among their findings…
Scientists are growing ears, bone and skin in the lab, and doctors are planning more face transplants and other extreme plastic surgeries. Around the country, the most advanced medical tools that exist are now being deployed to help America's newes…
Mohammad Twieh, an 18-year-old resident of Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, was told as a child he would not survive to adulthood without a liver transplant by 2007.
Patients in Japan who underwent living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for acute liver failure (ALF) were classified as having excellent outcomes, with ten-year survival at 73%. The findings suggest that the type of liver disease or treatment plan d…