Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry is recovering well from a kidney transplant on Feb. 20, and may be released from the hospital by this Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Dr. Clive Callender, the surgeon who led the team that performed Barry’s transplant, told the AP the 72-year-old D.C. City Council member has been moved from [Sign in to read the full article...]

Although 3-year-old Dallas Hextell and his parents have become advocates for banking and using cord blood, the Los Angeles Times reports, the procedure is still largely unproven. When Dallas was born, his parents, Derak and Cynthia Hextell, had arranged for a private blood bank to collect and store Dallas’ umbilical cord blood on the remote [Sign in to read the full article...]

A lawsuit out of St. Louis alleging that Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Mid-America Transplant Services took a dead man’s bones and tissue against his mother’s wishes was settled last week, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Terms of the settlement were confidential. The suit, filed by the mother, Hallie Thomas, in 2006, was scheduled to go [Sign in to read the full article...]

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital have devised a new way to decode the immune signals that cause slow, chronic rejection of all transplanted kidneys, Medical News Today reports. They’ve created an immune-system “atlas” that may improve doctors’ ability to monitor transplanted organs and shed light on the [Sign in to read the full article...]

How long a patient survives after a kidney transplant could depend on where he or she signs up to get the surgery, new research from the University of Florida shows. The shorter the waiting time at a transplant center, the longer patients are likely to live, Medical News Today reports. A combination of center-related factors [Sign in to read the full article...]