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…
FRIDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) — Current or previous smoking may increase the risk of hepatitis reinfection in people who have a liver transplant due to viral hepatitis, a new study suggests.
Buzz about finding a cure for AIDS got a little stronger today when the results of a study were revealed at the International AIDS Conference about two men who may be free of the HIV virus after having bone marrow transplants for cancer. Dr. Daniel Kur…
THURSDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) — Following bone marrow transplants, two men infected with HIV no longer have any traces of the AIDS-causing virus in their lymphocytes, researchers report.
( Brigham and Women's Hospital ) Two men with longstanding HIV infections no longer have detectable HIV in their blood cells following bone marrow transplants. The virus was easily detected in blood lymphocytes of both men prior to their transplant…
New findings on older women having babies, stem cells extracted during liposuction, and the latest on a stem cell trachial transplant.
WEDNESDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have grown small blood vessels in a lab using stem cells from fat gathered through liposuction. Such cultured blood vessels might someday play a role in transplant operations, including heart bypass su…
KIDNEY transplant patients have twice the risk of bowel cancer as other Australians, Adelaide medical researchers have revealed.
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have opened a clinical trial to test the theory that giving a patient a new immune system can cure severe cases of Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract.
( Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ) Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have opened a clinical trial to test the theory that giving a patient a new immune system can cure severe cases of Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammat…