Biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins have developed a new liquid material that in early experiments in rats and humans shows promise in restoring damaged soft tissue relatively safely and durably. The material, a composite of biological and synthetic molecules, is injected under the skin, then “set†using light to form a more solid structure, like [Sign in to read the full article...]
The Indian Parliament has passed a new amendment to its current organ transplantation law which includes expanding the people who can be donors and recipients and making it mandatory for medical staff to request relatives of brain death patients to approve donating their organs. The Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Bill 2009 will also make [Sign in to read the full article...]
Anthony Nolan, holder of one of the largest databases of potential donors in the world, is urging gay and bisexual men to donate blood stem cells in order to treat the more than 1,600 people in the UK in need of a transplant to treat such diseases as leukemia and lymphoma.  Unlike blood donation, there [Sign in to read the full article...]
Eighteen years after shutting down its underperforming liver transplant program, St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO, will begin transplanting livers again. The announcement, which was made on August 9th, said the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) approved the hospitals application in May and is already evaluating patients for liver transplants. Henry Randall, MD, [Sign in to read the full article...]
Experts are telling the press that Steve Jobs medical history has been singular – an uncommon treatment for a very rare cancer – and no one can or will say for sure what his options are as he looks for additional medical treatments. If the cancer has returned as seems likely, he is not a [Sign in to read the full article...]