South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who created the world’s first cloned dog but was disgraced for falsifying discoveries in stem cell research, was convicted by a Seoul court Monday of embezzlement and illegally obtaining human eggs from his female subordinates, the Times of London reports. The scientist was given a two-year suspended sentence instead of [Sign in to read the full article...]

Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center orchestrated a chain of nine kidney transplants in June that is expected to end this week, the Los Angeles Times reports. Officials at the United Network for Organ Sharing are developing a national registry that they plan to launch next year with five pilot sites, including UCLA. But [Sign in to read the full article...]

British doctors say they are a step closer to carrying out the first ever successful womb transplant, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports. A surgeon from London’s Hammersmith Hospital claims to have overcome one of the most insurmountable problems: securing the complex blood supply. Dr. Richard Smith is now looking for funds to take his work [Sign in to read the full article...]

The Cleveland Clinic has set the world record for the most lung transplants performed at a hospital in a single year, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.   On Oct. 13, doctors implanted a new lung in their 129th patient this year, one-upping the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which performed 128 lung transplants in 2007. [Sign in to read the full article...]

A newer, less expensive drug used to suppress the immune system and prevent organ rejection in kidney and pancreas transplant patients works just as well as its much more expensive counterpart, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. For the study, published recently in the [Sign in to read the full article...]