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. Limerick BioPharma Announces Positive Phase 1b Data For LIM-0705 In Preventin... Limerick BioPharma, Inc., a developer of innovative therapies that help cells pump out unwanted or toxic substances, will announce new results from human trials of its lead compound, LIM-0705, at the 23rd International Congress of the Transplantation Society in Vancouver, Canada, in an oral presentation on August 19, 2010. The results will be presented by Dr. Daniel C... Texas Raises Organ Donor Registry; D.C. Not Ready For Medical Marijuana Sales... The Houston Chronicle: "Though Texas has the nation's lowest percentage of registered organ and tissue donors, several recent initiatives have more than doubled the state's donor rolls this year. The number enrolled in the Glenda Dawson Donate Life Texas Registry has ballooned since Jan... Bid To Aid Transplant Cancer Patients Organ transplant patients who develop cancer may be helped by a treatment that uses blood cells to attack their tumour. University of Edinburgh researchers have generated a bank of white blood cells from healthy blood donors to treat patients with a blood cancer called post transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD)... New Transplantation Criteria For Liver Cancer Patients Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco propose that treatments used on liver cancers beyond the established Milan criteria for liver transplantation may be appropriate for all patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who are listed for transplantation... Accountant Who Underwent Double Lung Transplant Wins Gold At European Heart A... A chartered accountant who just 28 months ago underwent a double lung transplant has won six medals at the European Heart and Lung Transplant Games in Vaxjo, Sweden representing Great Britain... UCLA Launches First West Coast Human Hand Transplantation Program The UCLA Health System has launched the new UCLA Hand Transplantation Program, the first of its kind on the West Coast and only the fourth such center in the United States. The program will help those who have suffered the traumatic loss of a hand or forearm and allow them to regain function and improve their quality of life... ISHLT Issues New Guidelines For The Care Of Heart Transplant Recipients, Publ... Since the dawn of heart transplantation in the 1960s, medical care of heart transplant recipients has varied from center to center and been guided by the experience of individual clinicians... Surgeons Train On The First FDA-Approved Total Artificial Heart For Transplan... A 13-member surgical team from the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center completed the first phase of training to implant a new total artificial heart designed to completely replace the heart's function while the patient waits for a heart transplant. Methodist will be the first hospital in Texas to offer this total heart replacement... After Undergoing Tissue Transplant Surgery For Knee Damage Athletes Can Retur... Athletes with bone and cartilage knee damage who are treated with transplanted tissue can return to sports after surgery, according to a study reported at the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, held in Providence, R.I. The study (abstract 8970) overturns the widely held belief that patients who undergo this surgery do not return to athletics... Texas Children's Hospital Performs Rare Triple-Organ Transplant On Teen Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has performed the hospital's first triple-organ transplant on a 16-year-old Brenham resident. The patient, Taylor Sherrouse, underwent a 13-hour surgery on Tuesday, June 22 to replace her heart, lungs and liver, which had been severely damaged by cystic fibrosis... A New Generation Of Biological Scaffolds Professor John Fisher from The University of Leeds is speaking today (14 July) at the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting in Nottingham about his team's research into how biological scaffolding will pave the way for off-the-shelf tissue transplants... Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation Successfully Treats Therapy-Resistant Ch... The transplantation of stem cells from a healthy donor (allogeneic) offers the chance of cure for patients with an aggressive form of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), irrespective of genetic prognostic factors and the prior course of the disease. The German CLL Study Group proved this in a multicentric clinical phase II study led by Professor Dr... Phase 3 Meeting Scheduled With US FDA Following Positive Results Of Bone Marr... Australian regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited (ASX: MSB; ADR: MBLTY), announced that based on positive results from its bone marrow transplant clinical trial conducted at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, a formal meeting has been scheduled with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss a proposed Phase 3 clinical trial program... Study Finds Wide Variation In 5-Year Patient Survival Rates For Lung Transpla... There is significant variation among lung transplant centers in the U.S. in the 5-year survival rate of patients, with a higher number of procedures performed at a center only partly associated with longer survival of patients, according to a study in the July 7 issue of JAMA... Sernova Announces Positive Results Of Its Proprietary Cell Pouch SystemTM In ... Sernova Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SVA) is pleased to report positive results from a long-term study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the Cell Pouch System™ in a pre-clinical model of diabetes...     HealthBusinessBuilder.com Build your Health Business Fast!