By Jim Warren Editor & Publisher (Luis Tomatis, MD, director of medical affairs for the Richard V. DeVos Family, has been kind enough to provide a more detailed explanation of how Rich came to get his life-saving heart transplant in the UK in 1999. DeVos was honored last Wednesday evening by the Organ Procurement and [Sign in to read the full article...]

The nation’s tissue bankers are considering new rules aimed at preserving public trust in their industry, following two recent scandals that made some of them appear more like body snatchers than people who help improve the lives of millions of Americans, according to an Associated Press report. The leading professional association will vote next month [Sign in to read the full article...]

A San Diego hospital last week became the third transplant center ever — and the third in California — to be publicly sanctioned by UNOS. Sharp Memorial Hospital was placed on probation for deficiencies in its pancreas transplant program. UNOS found that Sharp had not performed a pancreas transplant for more than a year, even [Sign in to read the full article...]

Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife, according to an Associated Press report. The case appears to be the first such transplant reported in a [Sign in to read the full article...]

Scientists working at a British laboratory say they have achieved a breakthrough in stem cell science by taking cells from dead embryos and turning them into living tissue. The work was published online September 21st in the journal Stem Cells. “This should get around opposition to stem cell science because live embryos will no longer [Sign in to read the full article...]