Solutions to raise number of potential organ donors debated
The large disparity between need and availability of transplant organs is borne out in the national numbers.
Lab-grown human blood vessels could help study diseases, grow tissues for transplant
A team of bioengineers at the University of Washington has developed the first structure for growing small human blood vessels in the laboratory. The vessels behave remarkably like those in a living human and offer a better and much more modular approa…
New Skin Transplant Method For Vitiligo Patients
In the United States, approximately 1 in 200 are affected by vitiligo – a skin disease that causes the skin to lose color and develop white patches. Now dermatologists at Henry Ford Hospital state that skin transplant surgery is safe and effective for …
/C O R R E C T I O N — Veloxis Pharmaceuticals A/S/
In the news release, Veloxis Pharmaceuticals to Present Results from a Patient Subgroup Analysis of Once-Daily LCP-Tacro™ in Stable African-American Kidney Transplant Patients at American Transplant Congress …
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals to Present Results from a Patient Subgroup Analysis of Once-Daily LCP-Tacro™ in Stable African …
HORSHOLM, Denmark, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Veloxis Pharmaceuticals A/S (OMX: VELO) today announced that a subgroup analysis of African-American stable kidney transplant patients enrolled in Study 3001, a Phase 3 non-inferiority study, suggests th…
Pioneering lung transplant study
DOCTORS believe a pioneering transplant technique that cleans and reconditions donor lungs could save the lives of many patients.
Study Supports Using Lungs Transplanted From Smokers
People who receive a lung transplanted from a smoker live longer than people who need a transplant and don’t receive one, a new study finds.
Transplanting Smokers' Lungs Is Better Than No Transplant At All
Although lung transplant patients who receive the lungs of smokers tend to survive for a shorter duration than patients who receive the lungs of non-smokers, researchers in the UK have found that they have a better overall chance of survival than those…
Study: Donated smokers lungs better than not getting transplant at all
A new study in the Lancet finds lungs donated from smokers are better than not having a transplant at all.
Smoker's lungs better than none for patients who need transplant
Washington, May 29 : Patients who need new lungs are happy getting it from smokers than no lung at all, even though they know that they are likely to live shorter life than those who get a lung transplant from a nonsmoker, a new study suggested.