Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
The United Network of Organ Sharing has been prompted to take a closer look at liver transplants after a four-month Tribune-Review investigation showed how some patients die after transplants when they could have lived longer by waiting.
The Business First of Buffalo (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
An elephant never forgets, and neither does attorney John Feroleto, who recalled a connection between his nephew, Buffalo Common Council member Michael LoCurto, and Marcena Lozano, both Buffalo residents who received heart transplants.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
STEM-CELL research, which could be used in treatments that reduce the need for liver transplants, was revealed today.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
STEM-CELL research, which could be used in treatments that reduce the need for liver transplants, was revealed today.
Materia Medica Malaysiana (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Star: KUALA LUMPUR: Organ donors should be rewarded and their families given incentives in a bid to save more lives, medical officers have suggested. Cambridge University Visiting Professor and consultant surgeon Sir Roy Calne, who attended a seminar on organ transplantation at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre yesterday, urged the Government to be more committed to [...]
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
MANILA, May 5 (PNA) -– The Department of Health (DOH) has urged lawmakers to craft laws that will add more teeth on the country's present policies in internal organ transplant.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
The death this week of a musician who said he was denied a liver transplant because of his medical-marijuana use has highlighted a new ethical...
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Via NORML on the death of Timothy Garon: The medical records will show that he died due to complications associated with massive liver failure. He would have likely survived longer if he received a timely organ transplant but was denied access because he followed his physician's recommendation, used medical cannabis during his treatments for liver disease, therefore testing positive...
Newswise (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Heart failure patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center were among the first to be implanted with the HeartMate II LVAS (Left Ventricular Assist System) -- a miniature mechanical pump that helps weak hearts pump blood -- that has now received approval by the FDA as of April 21 for broad use as bridge to transplantation.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Researchers from 11 medical centers in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Norway have begun testing new approaches to transplanting clusters of insulin-producing islets in adults with difficult-to-control type 1 diabetes. The clinical studies, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will determine whether changes to current methods of islet transplantation lead to improved, long-lasting...
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
1/5/08 The Philippines is banning kidney transplants for foreigners from next month as part of a crackdown on a growing but illicit trade in human organs bought from the poor. Foreigners who violate it, as well as the middlemen, can be jailed for up to 20 years and fined two million pesos ($51,000), the Health Secretary, [...]
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Families of organ and tissue donors joined organ transplant recipients at the State Capitol on April 30 to formally thank lawmakers, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and the three million Californians who have pledged to save and heal lives by signing up on the state-authorized Donate Life California Organ & Tissue Donor Registry.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Families of organ and tissue donors joined organ transplant recipients at the State Capitol on April 30 to formally thank lawmakers, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and the three million Californians who have pledged to save and heal lives by signing up on the state-authorized Donate Life California Organ & Tissue...
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
MANILA - Church leaders and human rights campaigners Wednesday welcomed a ban by the Philippines on organ transplants to foreigners but cautioned that loopholes may still allow kidney trafficking to persist.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
The Philippines is banning kidney transplants for foreigners in a government crackdown on a growing but illicit trade in organs bought from the poor, officials said Tuesday.
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newsroom | 04/03/2008
BY DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com Cases of hepatitis C, already at epidemic proportions in New York, are expected to jump explosively in the coming decade, increasing the need for liver transplants and fueling a rise in the liver-related death rate, experts said yesterday. Speaking at a daylong conference on hepatitis C convened by the New York State Health Department, doctors painted a dreary...
