Archive for the ‘Transplants’ Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The country's oldest existing motorsport club is giving a boost to the drive to encourage more people to become potential lifesavers by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register.
The 1,800-member Midland Automobile Club - which was founded in Birmingham on 11 January 1901 - is backing the call for more drivers ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The National Kidney Registry and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced the successful completion of three simultaneous living donor transplants in one of the nation's first triple swaps involving a donor chain. The surgeries took place last week on Valentine's Day and all six donors and recipients are doing well.
Today's ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Staff and customers at hundreds of the UK's top businesses are being offered the opportunity to become lifesavers thanks to a new partnership between Business in the Community and UK Transplant to encourage more people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR).
By appealing to its 800-strong membership to promote ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
A life-saving mail drop in the Midlands aims to tackle the fact that the area has the lowest proportion of people on the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR) in the country.
From February more than 2.9 million homes in the region will receive the special leaflet inviting people to join the ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The possibility of having a kidney transplant without spending a lifetime on immunosuppressive drugs has come a step or two closer with the announcement this week of two studies using two new techniques to discourage rejection of the donor organ.
The studies are published in today's issue of the New England ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
The International Society of Organ Donation and Procurement (ISODP) and the International Transplant Coordinators Society (ITCS) will host the 2007 International Organ and Tissue Donation Congress, November 11-14 in Philadelphia, PA. The event, which is coming to the United States for the first time in 10 years, will bring together ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Why are African-American patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) less likely to be placed on waiting lists for kidney transplantation? It's not because they live farther away from transplant centers, reports a study presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 40th Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Francisco.
However, black ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
FDA on Monday said Roche's organ-rejection drug CellCept increases the risk of birth defects and miscarriage during the first trimester of pregnancy, Reuters reports. CellCept prevents organ rejection among kidney, liver and heart transplant recipients.
FDA issued a new black box warning to the drug's label about the increased risk of ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has established a comprehensive organ transplant center whose director plans to double the number of transplants currently done, broaden the type of organ transplants performed and increase the chances of Texans who are on waiting lists for a donor.
Dr. Luca Cicalese, who ...
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