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Engineered T Cells Promote Long-term Organ Transplant Acceptance, Says Study

Engineered T Cells Promote Long-term Organ Transplant Acceptance, Says Study

A molecular approach preventing rejection of the transplanted graft while simultaneously maintaining the ability to fight against infections has been uncovered by University of Basel's Bioze...

Same Race Liver Transplants Prove To Be Beneficial For African Americans

Same Race Liver Transplants Prove To Be Beneficial For African Americans

In the case of African-American liver transplant recipients, their life span after the transplants can be extended if the donor is from the same race, finds a new study. Journal of the...

Study Offers Clues for Optimizing Bone Marrow Transplants

Study Offers Clues for Optimizing Bone Marrow Transplants

Stem cells that were successfully transplanted don’t behave normally as in a healthy person without a bone marrow transplant, found a new USC and Stanford study, conducted in mice. Bone...

Split Liver Transplants Could Safely Help Sickest Children, Says Study

Split Liver Transplants Could Safely Help Sickest Children, Says Study

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have identified the type of patient who is most likely to survive a split liver transplant--receiving only part of a donor's liver--with no additional...

Geographical Discrimination in Allocating Lungs for Transplant in the US

Geographical Discrimination in Allocating Lungs for Transplant in the US

Organ allocation system in some regions of the United States is geographically discriminated according to a court filing in 2017. This confirms the findings of the recent study of medical re...

Telangana Man Underwent Heart Transplantation Surgery

Telangana Man Underwent Heart Transplantation Surgery

A young man has got a new lease of life by receiving a heart transplant with the support of Jeevandhan network. The transplantation surgery was performed in the Century Hospitals, a leading ...

First Baby Born from a Dead Donor's Uterus

First Baby Born from a Dead Donor's Uterus

World's first baby has been born using a womb transplanted from a brain dead woman, reveals a Lancet study. Following the uterus transplant from a 45-year-old brain dead woman a healthy...

Face Transplant Makes Cameron Underwood Smile Again

Face Transplant Makes Cameron Underwood Smile Again

Face transplant surgery provides a man from California a second chance to live a normal life. Cameron Underwood , a 26-year-old man of Yuba City, California, lost most of his lower ja...

Delay in the Diagnosis of Liver Disease Flipped the Life of an Indian Nationality in Dubai

Delay in the Diagnosis of Liver Disease Flipped the Life of an Indian Nationality in Dubai

After her 28th birthday, Bhakti Prakash Bahirwani started feeling lethargic and uneasy, and noticed a slight yellowing of her eyes. A range of events that followed turned her life upside dow...

Organs from a Brain-Dead Girl Saved Three Lives in Kolkata

Organs from a Brain-Dead Girl Saved Three Lives in Kolkata

Three people get new lease of lives in Kolkata after receiving organs from a 13 year old brain dead girl. The kidneys and liver of the girl were transported through a 170 kilometer long gree...

UC San Diego Health Cardiovascular Institute Performs Its 50th Heart Transplant of the Year

UC San Diego Health Cardiovascular Institute Performs Its 50th Heart Transplant of the Year

UC San Diego Health Heart Transplant Program grows with community, performed its 50th heart transplant of the year. “This is surreal. I am so appreciative for this life-changing opp...

Can Marijuana Users Donate Their Kidneys?

Can Marijuana Users Donate Their Kidneys?

Usage of marijuana by kidney donors was found to have no measurable effect upon the outcomes of kidney transplants for donors or recipients, reveals a new study in Clinical Kidney Journal. ...

Flu-like Symptomatic Disease Claims a Second Indian Student’s Life in Dubai

Flu-like Symptomatic Disease Claims a Second Indian Student’s Life in Dubai

A 17-year-old Indian student died in Dubai after showing flu-like symptoms. The teenage girl studied in an Indian school there. The teenage girl studying in a Dubai school has died afte...

Delhi Man Gets New Life

Delhi Man Gets New Life

A 34-year old man in New Delhi got a new lease of life after police created a 3.6-km green corridor to help a hospital carry a human heart in 3.28 minutes. Diagnosed with Dilated Cardio...

Kidney Transplant Waitlist: Weak Patients Have Lesser Chances of Being Listed

Kidney Transplant Waitlist: Weak Patients Have Lesser Chances of Being Listed

Frailty or weakness can lower a patient’s chances of receiving a kidney transplant and of even being placed in the kidney transplant waitlist. The findings of this study are going to be disc...

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