Henry Ford Hospital dermatologists say skin transplant surgery is safe and effective for restoring skin pigmentation caused by the skin disease vitiligo.In a first study of its kind in the United States, researchers followed 23 patients for up to six m…
Woman Receives UK's First Corneal Stem Cell Transplant – LifeNews.com
LifeNews.comWoman Receives UK's First Corneal Stem Cell TransplantLifeNews.comA woman in Scotland, who suffers from aniridia, has received an adult stem cell transplant to try and repair her left cornea. Sylvia Paton is the first person in the UK t…
Mª Jose Aguilera y Mª Paz Giambastiani, en la jornada. | Sergio Enriquez-Nistal – El Mundo.es
Mª Jose Aguilera y Mª Paz Giambastiani, en la jornada. | Sergio Enriquez-NistalEl Mundo.es"Así como muchos otros que actualmente están en investigación", como añadía por su parte Xavier Montalbán, director del Centro de Esclerosis Mú…
Essential Pharmaceuticals, LLC Donates Life-Saving Medicine to Marco Paliotta … – Houston Chronicle
Essential Pharmaceuticals, LLC Donates Life-Saving Medicine to Marco Paliotta …Houston ChronicleEssential Pharmaceuticals, LLC donated its organ preservation solution, Custodial® HTK Solution, to Dr. Marco Paliotta, http://drpaliotta.com, to be used…
Kidney-transplant ring exposed in China
Beijing, May 30 (IANS) A kidney-trafficking gang has been busted in a Chinese city and its ringleader, who was housing kidney-sellers in a residential complex, has been arrested.
Use of Smokers' Lungs for Transplant Has Pros, Cons – Philadelphia Inquirer
CBC.caUse of Smokers' Lungs for Transplant Has Pros, ConsPhiladelphia InquirerBut the bottom line from the new study is that "patients awaiting lung transplantation in the UK are likely to survive longer if they are willing to accept lungs fro…
Alnylam lung drug fails mid-stage trial
(Reuters) – Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc's experimental drug to treat a type of respiratory infection in lung transplant patients missed the main goal of a mid-stage trial. The drug, codenamed ALN-RSV01, is being developed to treat respiratory syncy…
Bank of America Honors Director of Chicago Diabetes Project With Mayor Richard M. Daley and Maggie Daley Award
Bank of America today recognized Dr. José Oberholzer, director of the Chicago Diabetes Project, as the second annual recipient of the Mayor Richard M. Daley and Maggie Daley Award. The award was established in 2010 to honor the Bank of America Chicago…
What is it Like to Donate Stem Cells? – Patch.com
What is it Like to Donate Stem Cells?Patch.comTo survive his cancer, former Napa schools administrator John Glaser is in need of a stem cell transplant; a donor drive today at NVUSD headquarters seeks to find a match. What's in store for cell donor…
Prochymal approval makes Canada first country to OK stem cell therapy
Osiris Therapeutics says that Canadian health regulators have approved its treatment for acute graft-versus host disease