Apple Inc. announced this week that CEO Steve Jobs returned to work following a near six-month medical leave, during which time the 54-year-old underwent a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Initially, he is working from home a few days a week. Doctors at the hospital said that Jobs, who had end-stage [Sign in to read the full article...]

Two new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to have children when they are older, the Associated Press reports. In the past, scientists have performed ovarian transplants in women with cancer. Doctors removed patients’ ovaries before chemotherapy began and re-implanted them later. Because of the cost and uncertainties involved, [Sign in to read the full article...]

Government documents show that complaints about a contact lens solution linked to a 2007 outbreak of eye infections that blinded several people went unreported by the manufacturer for more than a year, the Associated Press reports. The documents indicate that Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) received complaints about its Complete MoisturePlus solution more than a year [Sign in to read the full article...]

Kidney transplant patients have a weaker response to flu shots than do healthy individuals, especially in the first six months after transplantation, according to a study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers in Nashville. For the study, published in the July issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Dr. Kelly Birdwell and colleagues looked [Sign in to read the full article...]

A Houma, Louisiana-man’s relatives are claiming in a lawsuit that an organ donation agency and other businesses that handled his body after his September death allowed it to decompose and forced them to have a closed-casket ceremony, Houmatoday.com reports. The body of Francis Toups Jr., 53, was treated with a “callous disregard for its condition [Sign in to read the full article...]