Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Italian medical scientists say they are trying to determine whether split liver transplantation reliably yield grafts that can help two adults....
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Can split liver transplantation reliably yield grafts for two adults? Experts consider this question alongside new findings about the procedure in the July issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal by John Wiley & Sons. The articles are also available online at Wiley Interscience (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/).
City & Local News (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
THIS IS NOT the column I wanted to write about Candy Battistelli. That one would've been about how Candy, 64, had been on an organ-transplant list, waiting, with unflagging good humor, for a new liver to replace her own cancerous one.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
THIS IS NOT the column I wanted to write about Candy Battistelli. That one would've been about how Candy, 64, had been on an organ-transplant list, waiting, with unflagging good humor, for a new liver to replace her own cancerous one.
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Pediatric standard-risk AML with fully matched sibling donors: to transplant in first CR or not? Bone Marrow Transplantation advance online publication, June 30, 2008. doi:10.1038/bmt.2008.182 Authors: A Gassas, S Afzal, M K Ishaqi, T Finkelstein-Shechter, M Rojas, A Dupuis, L Sung & J Doyle
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Minimal residual disease diagnostics in myeloid malignancies in the post transplant period Bone Marrow Transplantation advance online publication, June 30, 2008. doi:10.1038/bmt.2008.185 Authors: U Bacher, A R Zander, T Haferlach, S Schnittger, B Fehse & N Kröger
Shea Nation (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
On Tuesday, long-time Mets' staffer Jim Plummer passed away from a heart attack after undergoing kidney and liver transplants a few days prior. As regular readers of this blog know, my own father died this past January, after complications from a kidney transplant, and I know how difficult this is for his family, wife Tee and son Jonathan. Although I never met Plummer, someone very close to me worked...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine physicians and bioethicists are calling for a new, more standardized way for patients in need of organ transplants to be informed of the risks they face. If adopted, their policy recommendations could promote greater equity in how organs are allocated while restricting patients' abilities to "cherry-pick" the best organs.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities is one of the goals of Healthy People 2010, the nation's roadmap to improving the health of all Americans. To address this challenge, the Center for Minority Health (CMH) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health has joined forces with researchers, community organizers, philanthropists and federal and state agencies to launch the...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Higher levels of the immune protein interleukin-6 (IL-6), a biomarker for inflammation, are associated with decreased survival in patients receiving organs for transplant from brain-dead donors, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers report in the June issue of Critical Care Medicine, the official journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Kidney transplants; Sanctions for Zimbabwe; The two Obamas and Putin
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Second hematopoietic SCT in patients with thalassemia recurrence following rejection of the first graft Bone Marrow Transplantation advance online publication, June 23, 2008. doi:10.1038/bmt.2008.175 Authors: J Gaziev, P Sodani, G Lucarelli, P Polchi, S Marktel, K Paciaroni, M Marziali, A Isgrò, M D Simone, A Roveda, A Montuoro, A Lanti, C Alfieri, G De Angelis, C Gallucci, F Ciceri & M G Roncarolo...
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Unrelated cord blood transplantation in CML: Japan Cord Blood Bank Network analysis Bone Marrow Transplantation advance online publication, June 23, 2008. doi:10.1038/bmt.2008.164 Authors: T Nagamura-Inoue, S Kai, H Azuma, M Takanashi, K Isoyama, K Kato, S Takahashi, S Taniguchi, K Miyamura, K Aoki, M Hidaka, F Nagamura, A Tojo, X M Fang & S Kato
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Christopher Tarver Robertson (Academic Fellow, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School) has recently published his article entitled From Free Riders to Fairness: A Cooperative System for Organ Transplantation, 48 Jurimetrics J. 1...
CBS 3 (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
The U.S. Transplant Games torch was carried through Atlantic City, N.J in the "Run For Life" Relay Friday.
