The US Attorney of the Northern District of Alabama announced on September 29th that two former directors of the Alabama Organ Center in Birmingham have agreed to plead guilty to charges of health care and mail fraud involving a kickbacks scheme with a local funeral home. The officials said in a statement the center’s former [Sign in to read the full article...]

Nevada Republicans have filed an ethics complaint against Representative Shelley Berkley, charging her with using her office to enrich herself by promoting legislation and intervening with federal regulators to help out her husband’s medical practice. The allegations, which were the result a recent article in the New York Times, have seriously impacted the dynamics of [Sign in to read the full article...]

Health care providers regularly assess blood and tissue type as well as the size and health of a recovered organ to be transplanted but new research indicates the checklist should also include circadian clock to see if the transplant will be successful. While some human studies have shown the time of day transplant surgery is [Sign in to read the full article...]

Using a patient’s own stem cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have corrected the genetic alteration that causes sickle cell disease (SCD), a painful, disabling inherited blood disorder that affects mostly African-Americans.  The corrected stem cells were coaxed into immature red blood cells in a test tube that then turned on a normal version [Sign in to read the full article...]

A Pennsylvania couple is suing the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center after transplant surgeons transplanted the woman’s kidney into her boyfriend despite a test showing she was infected with hepatitis C.  Cristina Mecannic and Michael Yocabet, of Green County, PA, said he now has the potentially fatal liver disease after the April 6th transplant. The [Sign in to read the full article...]