Artificial Heart Maker's Future Seen in Hands of Core Backers Artificial Heart Maker's Future Seen in Hands of Core Backers
Troubled artificial heart maker Carmat is appealing to key shareholders led by Airbus to invest new funds to avoid the collapse of the 30-year-old venture.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - October 2, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
S2 Episode 4: Chronic Kidney Disease: FSGS, Genetic Testing, and APOL1 S2 Episode 4: Chronic Kidney Disease: FSGS, Genetic Testing, and APOL1
Join Drs Matthew Sparks and Kirk Campbell as they dive into the murky waters of focal segmental glomerular sclerosis. How do you diagnose? How do you treat? Tune in to find out.Medscape (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - September 26, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Nephrology InDiscussion Source Type: news
Second Pig-Heart Transplant Patient at UM Faring Well Second Pig-Heart Transplant Patient at UM Faring Well
He should be well served by lessons from last year ' s turbulent case of David Bennett, the first patient at the University of Maryland to receive a genetically modified porcine heart.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - September 25, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Gene-Tweaked Pig Heart Transplant Into Second Patient
MONDAY, Sept. 25, 2023 -- A second human patient has received a genetically altered pig heart as he battles the ravages of end-stage heart disease. The 58-year-old man, Lawrence Faucette, received the pig organ at the University of Maryland Medical... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 25, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Short-Term Survival Worse for Single-Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease Patients
MONDAY, Sept. 25, 2023 -- Single-ventricle congenital heart disease (CHD) patients undergoing heart transplant have worse short-term survival, according to a study published online in the Sept. 19 issue of the Journal of the American College of... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 25, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Surgeons Perform Transplant of Gene-Tweaked Pig Heart Into Second Patient
MONDAY, Sept. 25, 2023 -- A second human patient has received a genetically altered pig heart as he battles the ravages of end-stage heart disease.
The 58-year-old man, Lawrence Faucette, received the pig organ at the University of Maryland Medical... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Organ transplant breakthrough as pig's kidney survives in body of brain dead man for two months
The genetically engineered kidney was observed in the body of 58-year-old Maurice Miller (pictured) for 61 days before it was removed. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Terminally ill man from Maryland, 58, is living with a PIG'S HEART - after becoming second patient ever to get pioneering transplant surgery
This week, Lawrence Faucette, 58, received a transplanted pig heart at the University of Maryland Medical Center after being deemed ineligible for a human heart transplant due to a condition. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Doctors Transplant Pig Heart Into Dying Man
Surgeons with the University of Maryland Medical Center were able to successfully transplant a pig’s heart into 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette on Wednesday, who was facing death with end-stage heart disease, the doctors announced Friday—marking just the second time this procedure, which doctors…#lawrencefaucette #bartleygriffith #marylanduniversity #davidbennett #annfaucette (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - September 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Doctors Transplant Pig Heart Into Dying Man —Only The Second Time It’s Ever Been Done
Doctors hope this new procedure could be a game changer in the organ transplant field. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 22, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William Skipworth, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Science /science Breaking breaking-news topline Source Type: news
'Significant breakthrough' as girl first UK transplant patient not to need life-long drugs
Young Aditi Shankar is the first child in the UK to receive a special type of kidney transplant. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - September 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Girl receives UK ’s first kidney transplant without need for lifelong drugs
Aditi Shankar, eight, has pioneering treatment resulting in her body accepting donor kidney as its ownAn eight-year-old girl has been spared from taking lifelong drugs to stop her body rejecting her kidney transplant thanks to a UK-first treatment.Aditi Shankar ’s immune system was “reprogrammed” after a stem cell transplant, resulting in her body accepting a donor kidney as its own, clinicians said.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 22, 2023 Category: Science Authors: PA Media Tags: NHS Health UK news Society Source Type: news
Girl, 8, gets kidney transplant without need for life-long drugs in UK-first
The stem cell transplant performed at London's Great Ormond Street (Gosh), means the eight-year-old's body accepted the organ as her own, sparing her a lifetime of medication. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
News at a glance: Diphtheria treatment shortage, prisoner release, and iNaturalist ’s growth
CONSERVATION
Popular biodiversity app to expand
The nonprofit that runs iNaturalist, a popular app and website for identifying species, has received a $10 million grant to expand. The funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, announced last week, will allow iNaturalist—whose website is one of the largest generators of crowd-sourced species-occurrence data—to add users, technology, and observations to inform conservation. iNaturalist hopes to grow in nature-rich parts of the world, such as Asia and South America, which have fewer users uploading data. Since iNaturalist’s founding in 20...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
