Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood externally offers hope for patients
Surgeons at University of Pennsylvania attached modified organ from pig to brain-dead human bodySurgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure.The University of Pennsylvania announced the novel experiment on Thursday, a different spin on animal-to-human organ transplants. In this case, the pig liver was used outside the donated body, not inside – a way to create a “bridge” to support failing livers by doing the organ’s blood-cleansing work externally, much like dialysis for fai...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 19, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Associated Press Tags: Medical research Science US news Source Type: news
Sir Roy Calne obituary
Pioneering British surgeon who carried out the world ’s first liver, heart and lung transplantIn the 1960s Roy Calne, professor of surgery at Cambridge University, was gripped by the emerging new science of transplantation to help those with kidney and liver failure.Calne, who has died aged 93, became Britain ’s premier transplant surgeon and researcher, achieving a number of firsts, including the first liver transplant in Europe in 1968, the world’s first liver, heart and lung transplant in 1986 (with John Wallwork) and the world’s first successful “organ cluster” transplant (stomach, intestin e, pancreas, liv...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 8, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Penny Warren Tags: Medical research Science Organ donation Doctors Health University of Cambridge Boston London NHS Source Type: news
A gift of life and love: Thunder Bay artist with lupus prepares for transplant of partner's kidney
After a year on dialysis, Anishinaabe artist Lucille Atlookan is receiving a unique gift from her partner: a kidney. As the Thunder Bay, Ont., couple prepares for transplant surgery in Toronto, we take a deeper look at the challenges faced by people with chronic conditions who travel long distances for treatment. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - January 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Thunder Bay Source Type: news
Kidney transplant and heart patients have slots cancelled amid junior doctors' strike - with some forced to wait 15 MONTHS before they are seen for life-changing treatment
Angela Waters-Kite, from Hull, revealed that her appointment for Monday has been cancelled, which would have revealed whether she could donate a kidney to her husband. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Q and A: Myths about minority organ donation
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A co-worker was diagnosed with kidney disease last year. He is now on dialysis three times a week as he waits for a kidney transplant. He shared his hope to get a living donor, explaining that he will have a longer wait since there are not as many diverse people signed up as organ donors. Can you explain why this is and what can I do to help? ANSWER: More than 103,000… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - December 29, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
The Most Exciting New Advancements in Managing and Treating Lupus
The case study involved just one patient: a 20-year-old woman with severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). But the study’s results were so dramatic that they appeared in 2021 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The woman received a type of cell therapy called CAR-T, which in the past has been used primarily to treat cancer. CAR-T cell therapy involves altering a patient’s immune cells so that they identify and attack problems or pathogens. In people with cancer, that attack is aimed at the diseased cells. But in the NEJM case study, the therapy was directed at the woman’s own B cells,...
Source: TIME: Health - December 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
13 Ways the World Got Better in 2023
As in most years, much of the media focus in 2023 was on the myriad crises people all over the world faced, from horrific wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to devastating natural disasters (many climate-change-related) in Turkey, Southeast Africa, Hawaii, Canada, and more. At the end of this long year, though, it’s worth taking a step back and considering some of the ways things improved. Here are some examples, gathered together by TIME’s climate and health journalists:
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COVID-19 death numbers plummeted…
Since the pandemic began, COVID-19 has b...
Source: TIME: Health - December 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: TIME Staff Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
No Improvement Noted in Black-White Kidney Transplant Rate Ratios
THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 2023 -- For patients with kidney failure, there appears to be no substantial improvement over time in the observed or adjusted Black-White mean living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) rate ratios (RRs), according to a study... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - December 21, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
KDIGO Supports HCV+ Kidneys Going To HCV – Recipients KDIGO Supports HCV+ Kidneys Going To HCV – Recipients
" This update is intended to assist clinicians in the care of patients with HCV infection and CKD, including patients receiving dialysis (CKD G5D) and patients with a kidney transplant (CKD G1T-G5T). "MDedge News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - December 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nephrology Source Type: news
Thousands of kidney disease patients set to benefit from £1-a-dose diabetes drug which can reduce the need for dialysis and a transplant
Kidney disease is usually triggered by the damage caused by another illness, such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Delhi Investigating Alleged Illegal Kidney Transplants New Delhi Investigating Alleged Illegal Kidney Transplants
The New Delhi city government is investigating an Apollo hospital after a media report linked it to the illegal sale by Myanmar nationals of their kidneys for organ transplants.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - December 7, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Nephrology News Source Type: news
Kidney transplant: Three-year-old is smallest patient
Olly Cartmill was 13kg when he had the life-saving operation, getting a kidney from his grandmother. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - December 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Where are our nation ’s donors?
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion - The report says that the UK ’s mixed heritage and ethnic minority population face a double whammy of inequity as they are more likely to need donors due to conditions which disproportionately affect them, such as sickle cell and kidney disease, but less likely to find well-matched donors on the blood, stem cell and organ don or registers. This is particularly true for patients in need of stem cell transplants for the treatment of blood cancer, where matched tissue type (most often found in donors from a similar ethnic background) is criti...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - December 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Public health and health inequalities Source Type: news
Two-Week Prophylaxis May Prevent Hep C After Kidney Transplant
(MedPage Today) -- Short-term prophylaxis with direct-acting antivirals was fully effective at protecting kidney transplant recipients when their donors had hepatitis C, a proof-of-concept study showed.
In the small, uncontrolled trial, a 2-week... (Source: MedPage Today Nephrology)
Source: MedPage Today Nephrology - December 1, 2023 Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: news
Two-Week DAA Prophylaxis Prevents Hep C After Kidney Transplant
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2023 -- Two-week direct-acting antiviral (DAA) prophylaxis prevents hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in individuals without HCV viremia who received kidney transplant (KT) from donors with HCV viremia (HCV D+/R−), according... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 28, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
