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Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
A lawsuit surrounding the wrongful death of a patient after he received cancerous lung transplants may go to trial. Though many medical malpractice lawsuits settle, parties in this suit may seek justice in court. The medical malpractice lawsuit surrounds a lung transplant operation that led to the patient’s death: the doctors transplanted cancerous lungs...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
During the Satellite Symposium 3: The Challenges of Lung Transplantation in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) at the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, clinicians and researchers discussed some of the unique challenges in achieving excellent lung transplant outcomes in patients with CF.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
During Wednesday's Satellite Symposium 3: The Challenges of Lung Transplantation in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) at the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, clinicians and researchers discussed some of the unique challenges in achieving excellent lung transplant outcomes in patients with CF.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
During Wednesday's Satellite Symposium 3: The Challenges of Lung Transplantation in cystic fibrosis at the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, clinicians and researchers discussed some of the unique challenges in achieving excellent lung transplant outcomes in patients with CF.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
At a recent symposium researchers discussed some of the unique challenges in achieving excellent lung transplant outcomes in patients with CF. Patients with life threatening lung disease due to CF have a lot to gain by lung transplantation. Compared to other possible indications for transplant, patients with CF have, in general, the best outcomes, and a successful...
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Curing Death by Curing Aging (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Experts Say Recent Study Was Seriously Flawed
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Responding to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which concluded that lung transplants were harmful for children with cystic fibrosis, articles published in the latest issue of Pediatric Transplantation refute the conclusions and argue that the highly influential research was severely flawed.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Responding to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which concluded that lung transplants were harmful for children with cystic fibrosis, articles published in Pediatric Transplantation refute the conclusions and argue that the highly influential research was severely flawed.
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The Publicity Hound's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Publicity Hound Sharon Dotson of Houston, Texas writes: “I am working with two other publicists to promote identical twins Anabel Stenzel and Isabel Stenzel Byrnes, 35, of Redwood City, CA, who between them have survived three lung transplants. “Half Japanese and half-German, the sisters were born with cystic fibrosis and were not expected to live to adulthood, [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
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The San Francisco Business Times (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
UC San Francisco Medical Center said Friday its one-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants exceed national averages at statistically significant levels.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
... old and the only reason I'll be able to celebrate 27 is because four months ago I had a double lung transplant. I have cystic fibrosis and, for almost as long as I can remember, I've had a fairly mature sounding smoker's type cough.
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Living on the frontlines (Free subscription) | 02/17/2008
Before Christmas I started talking on the phone with a new HPS friend named Janet. Janet lives in the Chicago area and didn't realize that she had the HPS type of albinism until her lungs were already quite sick. Her lungs were too sick for her to participate in any of the trials at NIH, and thus a lung transplant was her best option. Getting on a transplant list...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Blacks with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were less likely to receive a lung transplant and more likely to die or be removed from the transplant list than whites, according to Columbia University Medical Center researchers.
