China will tighten its organ transplant rules to prevent unqualified doctors and profit-hungry hospitals from abusing patients, state media said Monday, amid concerns that executed prisoners have had their organs harvested without consent. The draft regulation, which has been sent to the State Council for review, would require a new organization under the Ministry of [Sign in to read the full article...]
The nation’s largest tissue bank has asked 750 hospitals around the country to return 2,400 tendons and other body parts as a precaution after it learned that a Minnesota patient had been infected with an unusual germ from cadaver tissue used during routine knee surgery. A hospital reported the bacterial infection in September to the [Sign in to read the full article...]
A year after a French woman received the world’s first partial face transplant, doctors say the operation was a success and she is gaining more sensitivity and facial mobility. As British and American doctors work on plans for the first full-face transplant, the medical team at the hospital in Amiens in northern France issued a [Sign in to read the full article...]
Surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital this month successfully completed the first five-way donor kidney swap among 10 individuals. All five organ recipients — three men and two women — are fine, as are the five donors, all of whom are women. The marathon, 10-hour surgeries that took place November 14 occupied six operating [Sign in to read the full article...]
A new model based on specific characteristics of liver donors and recipients may help predict survival after liver transplantation, according to a new study by physicians with the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle. Results are published in the November issue of Liver Transplantation. “This model could be used to inform liver [Sign in to read the full article...]