Transplant Communications’ April 9 Webinar/Audioconference will discuss, “The benefits and costs of procuring deceased donors: Is accepting expanded criteria organs a good health investment; how much should we be willing to spend?” The waiting list for an organ transplant has been increasing each year with demand out-stripping the growth supply by a considerable margin. The situation [Sign in to read the full article...]
Chemists in Taiwan are reporting that an ingredient in licorice widely used in various foods and herbal medicines appears to block the absorption of cyclosporine, a drug used by transplant patients to prevent organ rejection. This drug interaction could potentially result in transplant rejection, causing illness and even death among patients worldwide who take cyclosporine [Sign in to read the full article...]
Johns Hopkins researchers in Baltimore have found that lung transplantation should be used with caution in patients older than 60, and that the procedure is associated with high rates of mortality after one year in patients 70 and older. These findings were published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of [Sign in to read the full article...]
A team of physicians in Barcelona, Spain, has removed a kidney from a woman diagnosed with kidney cancer, through a single opening, Medical News Today reports. The operation – the first of its kind to be performed in Spain – was done Feb. 17 by the team of Dr. Antoni Alcaraz of the Hospital ClÃnic [Sign in to read the full article...]
British scientists plan to become first in the world to produce unlimited amounts of synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells for emergency, infection-free transfusions, the Independent newspaper reports. A research project announced last week will culminate in three years with the first transfusions into human volunteers of synthetic blood made from the stem cells [Sign in to read the full article...]