Teacher donates liver to save former student's life
When 5-year-old Ezra Toczek from Alden, New York, faced complications of progressive liver disease, his former daycare teacher, Carissa Fisher, ...
Tag: Transplant
Immunocompromised adults show weaker response to RSV vaccines
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have shown that people 60 years or older with weakened immunity -; primarily organ transplant recipients ...
Innovative scanning technique enables better lung function monitoring
A new method of scanning lungs is able to show the effects of treatment on lung function in real time ...
New formula predicts oxygen delivery ability of red blood cells
SCIENTISTS have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. ...
Study finds a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle
A research team co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson's Sarver Heart Center ...
Stem-cell implants restore vision in patients with corneal stem cell deficiency
In a pioneering study, stem-cell-derived corneal implants improve sight for patients with severe vision impairment, offering a potential breakthrough for ...
New method aims to improve lung transplant access for hard-to-match candidates
Researchers at Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) have developed a new method that could potentially help provide ...
NIH awards multi-million grant for groundbreaking organ transplantation research
Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation have been awarded a multi-million grant from the National Institutes of Health ...
Benefits of less intensive stem cell transplants for sickle cell disease
So-called low-intensity blood stem cell transplants, which use milder conditioning agents than standard stem cell transplants, do not appear to ...
Study links fungal heteroresistance to fatal bloodstream infections in bone marrow transplant patients
Emory researcher David Weiss has spent years studying a baffling phenomenon called heteroresistance, in which a tiny fraction of bacteria ...
