Stigmatizing Language Common on Liver Transplant Websites
(MedPage Today) -- Stigmatizing words like "alcoholic" and "alcoholism" are frequently used on the websites of liver transplant centers, and this language may discourage patients from seeking treatment, according to a cross-sectional study.
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Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Study: Most U.S. liver transplant centers use alcohol-shaming language
Widespread online use of stigmatizing terms by liver transplant and rehab centers in the United States may be deterring patients from seeking treatment, according to a new study. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Man, 57, who had a heart transplant as a teen breaks world record to become longest-surviving recipient
Bert Janssen, from the Netherlands, was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy aged just 17, which makes it difficult for the heart to pump blood around the body. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why I Stopped Being A “Good” Cancer Patient
“You are allergic to your oral chemotherapy,” explains my oncology team at a recent appointment. “We are going to try a newer drug,” I am on my fourth attempt to find an oral treatment suitable for both my body and my cancer, so that I can maintain a remission that took three years and a stem cell transplant to achieve. “We want to get ahead of it before it gets ahead of us.” In my headphones, Weezer achingly croons, “Say it ain’t so, your drug is a heartbreaker.”
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Since being diagnosed with phase three chronic myeloid leu...
Source: TIME: Health - February 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Walela Nehanda Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Harvard Docs Train Ukrainian Counterparts 2 Years Into War Harvard Docs Train Ukrainian Counterparts 2 Years Into War
Boston program aimed to mentor specialists whose medical education was forged in the remnants of the old Soviet system.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - February 6, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Internal Medicine Source Type: news
Patient 'reborn' after priority lung transplant
Georgie Cooper says: "It was amazing to feel the air in my lungs after my transplant." (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Deeper Look At The Cornea And Corneal Transplants
Corneal transplant surgery has come a long way since its inception in 1905. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 30, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Transform Your Vision With The Next Generation Of Corneal Transplants
Corneal transplant surgery has come a long way since its inception in 1905. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 30, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
A kidney disease turned this education leader into an advocate for Ontarians waiting for a transplant
Karen Brown has advocated for elementary school teachers, Black educators and single mothers. Now, after her kidney disease took a turn for the worse, she’s advocating for herself — and the hundreds of Ontarians waiting for a transplant. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - January 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news
Transplanted kidney is 108 years old and going strong
A kidney which is now 108 years old has kept the woman who received it in a transplant alive for half a century. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
1st-ever experiment shows how pigs might one day help help people with liver failure
In a potential bridge to transplant approach, U.S. surgeons successfully externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - January 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
1st-ever experiment shows how pigs might one day help people with liver failure
In a potential bridge to transplant approach, U.S. surgeons successfully externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - January 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
How Pigs Could Help People Who Need Liver Transplants
In this study, eGenesis scientists used CRISPR to make not one, but 69 edits to the pig genome: three to remove the most pig-like proteins that would activate the human system to reject the liver, seven edits to add human genes to the pig liver, and 59 to inactivate pig retroviruses that could cause problems in humans. “Until CRISPR, there was no way to do that many edits easily,” says Curtis.
The future of pig livers
This single-patient study is just the beginning of what xenotransplants can achieve, says Shaked. The liver has two major duties in the body: regulating critical enzymes and substances such ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Spain Breaks Own Organ Transplant Record in 2023 Spain Breaks Own Organ Transplant Record in 2023
Spain carried out more organ transplants than ever before last year, conducting a total of 5,851 such procedures, a 9% jump from 2022, Health Minister Monica Garcia said on...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - January 17, 2024 Category: Surgery Tags: Transplantation Source Type: news
Roy Calne, Pioneering British Organ-Transplant Surgeon, Dies at 93
His innovations in the use of drugs to prevent organ rejection helped bring a remarkable increase in the one-year survival rate. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Clay Risen Tags: Roy Calne Deaths (Obituaries) Surgery and Surgeons Transplants Liver Doctors Great Britain Thomas Starzl Source Type: news
