Liver transplant to cure cancerKY3The University of Michigan is one of a handful of US transplant centers studying liver transplantation as a cure for bile duct cancer. Every year, thousands of Americans face a killer. But now surgeons are replacing a …
Penn Researchers Call for a Re-Examination of Transplant Waitlist PrioritizationNewswise (press release)The results of the study are published in the April issue of Liver Transplantation. “With the scarcity of available livers for transplantation, it…
The Nation, PakistanSSP, lawyers let doctors run awayThe Nation, PakistanLAHORE – Two doctors involved in illegal kidney transplantation case escaped on Tuesday from the Lahore High Court premises after the court denied extension in their pre-arrest ba…
Clinicians from The Cardiac Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia …SYS-CON Media (press release)Andrew C. Glatz et al, Prevalence and Risk Factors for Acute Occlusive Arterial Injury Following Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization in the …
Clinicians from The Cardiac Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia …MarketWatch (press release)Joseph W. Rossano et al, Pediatric Heart Transplantation from Donors with Depressed Ventricular Function: An Analysis of the United Network …
Daily MailTechnological breakthroughs provide a new release: Nalini Ravichandran tells …Daily MailDr AS Soin, Chief, Institute of Liver Transplantation, Medanta Medcity has performed the first of its kind of robotic liver transplant procedure in Indi…
Opera and Classical Music Linked to Better Recoveries for PatientsBecker’s Hospital ReviewResearchers randomly assigned a group of mice to five groups, which were each exposed to different genres of music during heart transplantation: no music, opera, …
Exercise Aids in Rehabilitation for Lung Transplant PatientsPhysical Therapy ProductsBelgium-based researchers recently set out to study the effects of exercise training after lung transplantation. Their findings were published online March 5, 2012, in…
The GuardianCheney Operation Underscores Heart Transplant IssuesWNYCHeart transplantation has come a long way since Christiaan Barnard stitched the heart of a young woman into the chest of a middle-aged man in South Africa in 1967. That transplant reci…
Irish TimesOrgan donations at highest level in 2011RTE.ieThe association has called for more funding for kidney transplantation given the savings it can make by getting more patients off dialysis. IKA Chief Executive Mark Murphy said that 650 people ar…