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Doctors in Spain have carried out a pioneering tissue-engineered whole organ transplant by using a windpipe created with the patient's own stem cells, it was reported Wednesday.
Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old Colombian woman, underwent the ground-breaking operation at a hospital in Barcelona in June and is now in perfect health,...
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A Singapore tycoon, who pleaded guilty to two counts of illegally attempting to purchasing a kidney from an Indonesian is too sick to survive in prison, said his attorney Thursday.
Attorney Cavinder Bull said jailing Tang Wee Sung, executive director of the tony CT Tang Department store and owner of prime real estate, would be...
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A plane which was part of a nonprofit organization that arranged flights for sick passengers to treatment centers crashed on Tuesday morning in an empty parking lot in Easton, Massachusetts. The three people inside died on the spot.Robert Gregory was 43 years old and he was diagnosed with leukemia for four years. He was in remission...
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Kristen Anne LaBrie is facing charges after she voluntarily stopped her son’s medications for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. 8-year-old Jeremy was said to be having 80% chances of surviving when the doctors diagnosed him. But he ought to have passed through chemotherapy and to have taken the medication.Doctors claim that his mother canceled...
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 A 20-month old boy has survived his second heart transplant within a week. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic transplanted a second heart into the little boy, Kobe Giese from Fargo, after the first heart transplant which was performed four days ago failed. The little boy was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy shortly after his birth. For no...
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 The Food and Drug Administration warned Friday about two drugs approved for use by organ transplant patients to prevent organ transplant injection. CellCept by Roche and Myfortic by Novartis can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women.It is also common practise to use these drugs “off-label” to treat other immune...
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the 132nd day of 2008 with 234 to follow. This is Mother's Day. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, in 1854;...
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 Former President Lech Walesa of Poland leaved a Houston
hospital, four days after surgeons implanted a pacemaker.
The device is supposed to help Walesa, 64 year-old, avoid a
heart transplant, and it was implanted during a two-hour procedure at Methodist
DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center.
“My health is very much...
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 American remakes of Asian movies have virtually never
succeeded to have the same flavor as the original. We’re focusing now on “The
Eye,” a rendition of 2002’s work of Pang brothers.
Directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud reunited, after
their joined work in “Them,” and they brought some considerable strength in the
movie. The...
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 Legendary daredevil and motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel died Friday after lengthy illnesses aged 69, his family said.
A message on his website said "Robert Craig 'Evel' Knievel October 17, 1938 - November 30, 2007."
Knievel, who defied death in numerous stunts, had suffered in later
years from diabetes and pulmonary...
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 Renowned baritone voice of Robert Goulet disappeared
for ever on Tuesday. The entertainer that made a name of his Sir Lancelot
performance in the Broadway musical Camelot passed away, while waiting for a
lung transplant.
The 73-year Goulet entered the Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center as a patient on October 14, after
feeling very ill...
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 Hospitalized 73-year actor and singer Robert Goulet is in
desperate need of a lung transplant and unfortunately no suitable donor has
been found until the moment.
The entertainer was diagnosed with a form of pulmonary
fibrosis after having his first symptoms in September, when he was
returning to his Las Vegas home after a...
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 Researchers announced on Sunday that some genetically engineered immune cells could find the HIV virus in the body. This could offer a wide way to cure the disease that has been said to be impossible to cure. A study made in the laboratory showed that the T-cells, also called assassin cells, can spot the cells infected by the virus and...
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 A bear destroyed the face of a Chinese man. After various searchers, a team discovered that the Chinese could receive a new face. Also a French-Caribbean man’s face was damaged by a rare tumor. This has lead researchers into finding out that face transplants are possible and are not bizarre at all.The researcher team said that these...
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 The study published by the New England Journal of Medicine gathered round a lot of doctors who made a debate over the time an organ donor should be declared dead. This has been made because of the successful heart transplants from children who were pronounced dead after their hearts had stopped.The hearts of the dead children are usually...
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 The success of a kidney transplant may
depend on gender. Researchers at University Hospital Bazel analyzed data on data
on 195,516 people in Europe who received
kidneys from deceased donors between 1985 and 2004 and concluded that gender
should be considered when choosing a donor.
Transplantation of kidneys from male donors
into...
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 Surprisingly, a new study, named the Cornea Donor Study
(CDS) shows that corneas taken from donors up to age 75 are good for
transplant. Usually, when it comes to most type of transplants, doctors prefer
younger tissues and organs.
The research was coordinated by the Jaeb
Center for Health Research in Tampa, Fla.
They found that...
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 According to doctors, children who receive lung transplants
because of severe damage caused by cystic fibrosis hardly benefit from the
risky operation.
It is a controversial conclusion, made more controversial
because the transplant rules have been changed since the study was done, said
Dr. Theodore G. Liou, associate professor of...
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 “Popcorn worker’s lung” is a serious disease affecting people who work in microwave popcorn production – and scientists may have discovered its cause.
Diacetyl is a chemical ingredient important in the making of artificial butter flavoring for popcorn. Researchers now say that factory workers inhaling the...
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 To live without a heart? We know it’s possible for some minutes, let’s say hours, but for four months? That was how a 14-year-old girl lived during 118 days when her heart was stopped from any function. D'Zhana Simmons said that she felt “fake” but even if she couldn’t feel anything, she knew she was still there. "And I did live...
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 An international research team announced on Wednesday that a woman from Colombia has just received the first trachea transplant which was grown by seeding a donor organ with her stem cells as to prevent her body from rejecting it. The surgery was a total success and it was made back in June.The doctors used tissue from the woman’s own...
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 Karl Merk, 54, lost his arms six years ago in a farming accident. But the medicine has evolved so much that he received his both arms back. He was the first world case for double arm transplant and on Wednesday he was very surprised that the surgery went on so well and that appeared to be very successful.Merk told the Associated Press...
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 A highly skilled team of transplant surgeons have performed an innovative cancer surgery on a patient, a risky operation which saw most of the abdominal organs removed and then put back in after the cancer was removed. The 15-hour procedure was performed at the University of Miami/Jackson Medical Center by a team of doctors led by Dr...
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 After a doctor has been accused of speeding a patient’s
death, in order to harvest his kidneys and liver, ethicists and organ
transplant experts have become deeply concerned.
According to a report in The New York Times, hearings for
Dr. Hootan C. Roozrokh began Wednesday. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of
dependent adult...
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 Just about two week before
Valentine’s Day, a child’s heart stopped. A life was taken without anybody’s
fault. In fact, everybody did what they could to help Marquis Popp, the
13-year-old teenager that passed away on Saturday. They even gave him a new
heart, but it seems that sometimes man’s power is simply useless. The boy...
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 According to an editorial in a leading medical journal, the
things said about dark chocolate may not be entirely true.
Plain chocolate is naturally rich in flavanols, plant
chemicals that are believed to protect the heart. But the Lancet editorial
points out that many manufacturers remove flavanols from chocolate because of
their...
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 Californian family of teenager who died while awaiting a
liver transplant said they would sue the insurer whom they blame for their
daughter's death.
Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif.,
died Thursday just a few hours after her insurer, Cigna HealthCare, approved a
procedure it had previously described as...
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 A new research shows that high-dose chemotherapy has only a
minimal effect on survival in breast cancer patients with node-positive
disease, new research shows.
"It's pretty clearly established that [high-dose
chemotherapy] is a false hope," said study author Donald Berry, head of
the Division of Quantitative Sciences at...
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 According to heath officials, there is serious shortage of
organs available for transplants thus forcing transplant doctors to turn to
drug abuse donors.
Between 2002 and 2007 some 450 organs came from donors with
a history of drug abuse, which may affect the quality of the organ and raise
infection risks.
The lack of viable...
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 Elijah Moulton, aged 8 months, survived a very difficult five organ transplant, which saw his liver, small bowel, pancreas, colon and stomach replaced in a seven-hour procedure on July 10 at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. He was suffering from a rare gastrointestinal malformation called total intestinal...
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