Transplant News to present a 90-minute Webinar Thursday, March 4 on the Institute of Justice lawsuit challenging the NOTA ban on offering compensation to bone marrow donors: The legal basis for the challenge; potential implications for offering valuable consideration to sold organ donors; potential impact on altruistic donation. Speakers will include: Jeff Rowes, JD, Senior [Sign in to read the full article...]

Eight years after stunning world by winning bronze medal in snowboarding, liver transplant recipient Chris Klug is back for his third Olympics. Klug is age 37, his liver age 10. Klug was diagnosed in his early 20swith primary sclerosing cholangitis, the same disease that took the life of Chicago Bears great running back Walter Payton. [Sign in to read the full article...]

A molecular pathway that works through the immune system to regenerate damaged kidney tissues could lead to a breakthrough in developing new therapies for repairing injuries in a number of organ systems. The findings of a collaborative research effort led by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital of the Harvard [Sign in to read the full article...]

Transplant recipients, living donors and donor families in the US are being polled by Donate Life Hollywood to vote for the best organ donation feature film of all time. The four nominated films are Seven Pounds, Return to Me, John Q and Blood Work. The nominations were generated by the Philadelphia Transplant Movie Night, a [Sign in to read the full article...]

Measuring certain types of immune cells may predict the high risk of skin cancer after kidney transplantation, according to a new study. Researchers measured levels of key immune cells in 116 kidney transplant recipients, 65 of whom developed squamous cell skin cancers. “There are differences in the immune system, and some of them are associated [Sign in to read the full article...]