Health and Medical Guide to Transplantation and Donation Transplantation and Donation Health information topics about Transplantation and Donation: Blood Donation (Blood Transfusion and Donation) Blood Transfusion and Donation (Blood Transfusion and Donation) Bone Marrow Transplantation (Bone Marrow Transplantation) Heart Transplantation (Heart Transplantation) Islet Cell Transplantation (Islet Cell Transplantation) Kidney Transplantation (Kidney Transplantation) Liver Transplantation (Liver Transplantation) Lung Transplantation (Lung Transplantation) Organ Transplantation (Organ Transplantation) Pancreas Transplantation (Pancreas Transplantation) Stem Cells and Stem Cell Transplantation (Stem Cells and Stem Cell Transplantation) Transplantation (Organ Transplantation)   Transplants / Organ Donations News From Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. $5.6 Million Contract For Heart Assist Device For Infants And Toddlers Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and their collaborators have been awarded a $5.6 million federal contract to pursue the continued development of an implanted ventricular assist heart pump for infants and small children with congenital or acquired heart disease... Acutely Damaged Livers May Be Repaired Via Transplanted Hepatocytes A research team from the National Taiwan University Hospital has evaluated the efficiency of transplanted hepatocyte (liver) cells in animal models severely damaged by two kinds of chemical toxicity to see whether and how transplanted hepatocytes were able to efficiently repopulate the toxin-induced, severely damaged livers... Stem Cells Rescue Nerve Cells By Direct Contact Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown how transplanted stem cells can connect with and rescue threatened neurons and brain tissue. The results point the way to new possible treatments for brain damage and neurodegenerative diseases... West Nile Virus Thwarted By Therapeutic From Tobacco Plant A new therapeutic made from tobacco plants has been shown to arrest West Nile virus infection, according to a new study by Arizona State University scientist Qiang Chen and his colleagues... Experimental Vaccine Reduced TB Rate Among HIV-Positive People In Tanzania, S... An experimental vaccine was found to reduce the rate of tuberculosis infections in patients living with HIV, "the first time a shot has been shown to reduce cases of the most common AIDS-related cause of death in poor nations," Bloomberg reports (Bennett, 1/29). Tuberculosis accounts for up to one-third of AIDS deaths worldwide, CBC News reports... Anti-Inflammatory Agent Can Limit And Reverse The Progression Of Graft-Versus... If a team of American scientists are right, bone marrow transplants may become safer and more available to people in need of donations... Preventing Pancreatic Islet Loss After Transplantation Although transplantation of pancreatic islets is an attractive way to treat type 1 diabetes, early islet loss soon after transplantation has limited its clinical use... Geisinger Medical Center Becomes Region's Only Bone Marrow Collection Site Geisinger Medical Center (GMC) was recently designated a National Marrow Donation Program (NMDP) collection site, becoming the only site in the region to collect bone marrow or blood stem cells from willing donors. "It is very exciting and a major achievement to be designated a National Marrow Donation Program collection site," said Edward Gorak, D.O... Minimally Invasive Adult Liver Donation For Pediatric Transplantation Availab... NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is the only medical center in the United States to offer minimally invasive liver donation for pediatric transplantation. Surgeons use a laparoscopic technique to remove a section of liver from a living donor for implantation in a pediatric patient -- typically a parent donating to their child... Leukaemia Patients: Long-Term Outcome And Survival After Undergoing Stem-Cell... The largest randomised study comparing the effect of type of transplant on survival is published Online First in The Lancet Oncology. It reports that patients transplanted with peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) have no difference in survival compared with patients given bone marrow after ten years. Bone marrow transplants involve the collection of stem cells from the bone marrow... Medium Term Outcome Of Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy With Xenografts Compared T... UroToday.com - Graft materials are increasingly being used to improve surgeries for pelvic floor prolapse, in an effort to reduce recurrence. There is some evidence this is indeed so, but a number of graft related complications (GRC) cause clinically relevant problems (erosion, pain, dyspareunea) and may lead to reintervention... Professional Development Programme To Improve Organ Donation A unique programme to support a UK-wide network of hospital organ donation "champions" is to be launched next week. The programme is designed for the growing number of Clinical Leads for Organ Donation and the Donation Committee Chairs who work along side them... Immune Cell Levels Predict Skin Cancer Risk In Kidney Transplant Patients Measuring certain types of immune cells may predict the high risk of skin cancer after kidney transplantation, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN)... Stem Cell Breakthrough: Bone Marrow Cells Are The Answer Using cells from mice, scientists from Iowa and Iran have discovered a new strategy for making embryonic stem cell transplants less likely to be rejected by a recipient's immune system. This strategy, described in a new research report appearing in the February 2010 print issue of The FASEB Journal, involves fusing bone marrow cells to embryonic stem cells... Transplant Tourism Poses Ethical Dilemma For U.S. Doctors A recent case study by doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York examined the ethical issues posed by transplant tourism, an offshoot of medical tourism, which focuses solely on transplantation surgery. Many American transplant professionals frown on the practice of transplant tourism where patients travel to countries such as China, India, and the Philippines for their transplantation...     HealthBusinessBuilder.com Build your Health Business Fast!