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| May 30, 2026 | Woman undergoes rare quadruple organ transplant at University of Chicago Medicine | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
It took some time for Jasmine Jones to absorb the news that doctors wanted to replace four of her organs at once.
She had been through so much already because of cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease ... |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Hansa hosts call with distinguished transplant surgeons: Insights on clinical practice and imlifidase Phase 3 Results | Hansa hosts call with distinguished transplant surgeons: Insights on clinical practice and imlifidase Phase 3 Results
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Lund, Sweden, 29 October 2025. Hansa Biopharma AB, “Hansa” (Nasdaq Stockho... |
| Jun 15, 2024 | His son was born with a rare condition, so this father donated a kidney. He "always knew it was going to be him." | When Stephen Munari's son Jaren was born, Munari knew he would one day donate an organ to help him.
The day before his birth, doctors told Jaren's parents that their son would have just the one kidney, which was "on the small side,&quo... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Технология, позволяющая органам работать вне тела | Перфузия позволяет сохранить жизнь донорского органа вне тела, что даёт хирургам дополнительное время и увеличивает количество возможных трансплантаций.
Перфузионный аппарат, в котором находится печень умершего донора. Аппарат перекачивает ... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Pig kidney transplanted into man for first time ever at Massachusetts General Hospital | BOSTON – For the first time ever, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston transplanted a pig kidney into a living human patient.
Mass General said Thursday the procedure was the first successful procedure of its kind in the wor... |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Living kidney donors rely on a promise to protect our future health. We’re scared it will go away | Five years ago, I donated my “spare” kidney at the Mayo Clinic to a woman I read about in the newspaper. Though living with only one kidney has risks, I was not particularly concerned about my own health. The clinic’s medical evaluation was... |
| Mar 11, 2023 | Hepatitis C is ‘not something you wish on anybody.’ Biden has a plan to end it | For decades, many Americans with hepatitis C have struggled to get tested or died waiting for a cure that remained inaccessibly expensive within the nation’s fractured health care system. President Joe Biden’s new proposed budget to Congres... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | There Should Be An Urgency To Increase The Number Of Kidneys Available For Transplant | The United States has a government agency solely devoted to reducing automobile deaths in the United States, and it spends billions of dollars each year—and requires auto companies to do likewise—in an attempt to make our nation’s roads and... |
| Jan 9, 2023 | There May Be a Better Way to Allocate Precious Donor Lungs for Transplant | MONDAY, Jan. 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new way of allocating donor lungs that eliminates geographical restrictions could save more lives, new research suggests.
In early 2023, the current U.S. system, which looks for compatible candidat... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | There's a Push to Expand Medicare's Coverage of Dental Issues | TUESDAY, Oct. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Dental coverage under Medicare could soon start expanding for seniors under a new proposal from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Still, the proposed rules would not provid... |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Organ transplantation is at a crossroads. Major reform is needed | In early August, the Senate Finance Committee held a bipartisan hearing co-chaired by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) revealing that the organ procurement and transplant system in America is badly broken.
More than... |
| Apr 22, 2022 | Access to kidney transplantation is improving for everyone, but more work remains to be done | Organ donation and transplantation are saving more lives in the United States than ever before, thanks to concerted work by stakeholders from across the country: donor families, organ procurement organizations, transplant centers, the Organ... |
| Apr 4, 2022 | Banner-University Medicine Transplant Institute Chooses eHealth Technologies to Streamline Patient Intake | Will share detailed case study at UNOS Transplant Management Forum ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, April 4, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- eHealth Technologies, an innovator in retrieving and transforming complex medical records into action... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | Maximizing kidney transplant equity means minimizing geography | For decades, geography heavily influenced who received kidney and other organ transplants in the United States and who didn’t.
An assessment released late last year of a new national policy, which takes a more logical approach to allocating... |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Organ Trafficking Continues; How US Donors, Recipients Are Kept Safe | An estimated 5 to 10% of all global organ transplants result from illegal trade in human organs that generates between $840 million and $1.7 billion per year. Bad things happen and they tend to cast a shadow over the whole transplantation p... |
| Sep 22, 2021 | How technology is transforming organ procurement | Every year, more than 100,000 people in the United States wait for an organ donation. More than a dozen people will die each day still waiting. Such is the brutal math and the necessary optimism required to work in the organ procurement wor... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | A mom of 2 donated her uterus to a stranger to help her get pregnant and now they’re best friends | Cheryl Urban (right) helped Chelsea Jovanovich (left) achieve her lifelong dream of motherhood. Courtesy of Penn Medicine
Chelsea Jovanovich was 15 when she was told she’d never get pregnant.
After a failed attempt to conceive via surrogacy... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | Our Current Kidney Transplant Laws Are Disadvantageous To Minorities. Let’s Change Them | The Biden-Harris administration has indicated that it intends to increase scrutiny of racial gaps in health care. We have a suggestion of how to fill the gaps in one important area: The treatment of kidney disease. |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Hope Springs Eternal: An Indiana Mother’s Journey to a Kidney Transplant. | (BPT) - Kindness spreads kindness. Unexpected kindness, while often surprising, has the potential to heal and change a life.
The trajectory of 38-year-old Rebecca Barcenas’ life has been forever changed by unexpected kindness. A mother of t... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Are lung function algorithms perpetuating health disparities experienced by Black people? | “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against racism in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Eric Garner at the hands of the police. But chokeholds are far from the main cause of race-based disparities in respiratory deaths in the U... |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Talend Bolsters Efforts To Help Companies Cross The Data Quality Chasm | Data is the new oil was a phrase that many technology leaders used to describe a shift in computing. It implies that data is fuel for an engine. But similar to the automobile example where fuel is useless unless we have the tools to convert... |
| Apr 22, 2020 | Transplants plummet as overwhelmed hospitals focus on the coronavirus | Fred Banks apologizes for pausing mid-sentence to catch his breath. “I’m on oxygen 24/7,” explains the 65-year-old former wheat- and barley-farm worker.
On the waiting list for a double-lung transplant since December, Banks has twice made t... |
| Apr 29, 2019 | Fairness in liver transplants can be a constitutional issue | Liver failure is a terrible way to die: a painful belly full of fluid, vomiting blood, mental confusion, and repeated hospitalizations. The only cure is liver transplantation but, as is the case for all types of transplants, there aren’t ne... |
| Apr 3, 2019 | Hepatitis C-infected hearts and lungs can be safely transplanted, study says, opening way to more donors | Smoking cigarettes and working in the paint and drywall business for 35 years silently wreaked havoc on Pete Bucciarelli’s lungs. He didn’t learn how sick he was until 2010, after he collapsed suddenly on his living room floor.
Doctors told... |
| Nov 28, 2017 | RA backs Medeor’s $57M round as researchers fast forward to PhIII | The Bay Area’s fast-growing biotech Medeor Therapeutics has raised $57 million in a B round to advance its late-stage tech, which might prevent the body’s rejection of organ transplants.
Peter Kolchinsky
The round was led by R... |
| Dec 16, 2016 | Never too old to save a life: Organ transplants from senior citizens get boost | Diana Teller never thought she was too old for anything, not scuba diving or traveling the world or taking Italian lessons late in life, her family recalled.
So when the vivacious San Diego woman died last year at age 76 after a sudden brai... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | Tough call for surgeons: Should they tell transplant patients their donor was an addict? | He was watching TV in bed when he got the call. It was the transplant team at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. They had a kidney for him, from a donor who had just overdosed in a New York deli. Did he want it?
Brian w... |
| Jun 13, 2016 | White House gets major commitments on organ transplants, donations | Kidney patients account for more than 80 percent of patients on that waiting list. Jeffrey Zients, President Obama’s economic advisor, said patients with end-stage renal disease cost Medicare more than $34 billion annually. Zients pointed o... |
| Mar 30, 2016 | Can a president really jump the line for an organ transplant? | WASHINGTON — Spoiler alert: President Frank Underwood needs a liver transplant in this season of “House of Cards.”
He’s been shot through the abdomen, and a transplant is the only way he’ll survive. Luckily, “House of Cards” is the sort of ... |
| May 23, 2015 | Algocracy | Every day throughout the United States, there are thousands of patients waiting for a compatible organ. Supply never meets demand, a function of our voluntary system of organ donation as well as the consistent ban on paid organs. Some patie... |
| Sep 27, 2012 | The Next Big Niche? Emerging Med-Tech for Transplant. | As an advisor to emerging med tech companies, I am always on the lookout for attractive niche markets where new technologies might get a foothold and demonstrate their value before taking on the (often mythical) billion-dollar opportunity. ... |
| Jan 2, 2012 | Newly approved Berlin Heart helps patients waiting for a transplant | On the Berlin Heart, Alina Siman, 4, has regained her energy which will make her a better transplant candidate when a new organ becomes available
By Lindsay Hoshaw
Four-year-old Alina Siman is being kept alive on a device that gained approv... |
| White House gets major commitments on organ transplants, donations | The White House Organ Summit Monday in Washington brought hopeful news to the more than 120,000 Americans awaiting organ transplants.
The summit brought together leaders from social media, technology firms, organ transplant advocacy organiz... |
| The Next Big Niche? Emerging Med-Tech for Transplant. | As an advisor to emerging med tech companies, I am always on the lookout for attractive niche markets where new technologies might get a foothold and demonstrate their value before taking on the (often mythical) billion-dollar opportunity. ... |
| Hope Springs Eternal: An Indiana Mother’s Journey to a Kidney Transplant. | (BPT) - Kindness spreads kindness. Unexpected kindness, while often surprising, has the potential to heal and change a life.
The trajectory of 38-year-old Rebecca Barcenas’ life has been forever changed by unexpected kindness. A mother of t... |
| Scientists successfully unfroze rat organs and transplanted them — a ‘historic’ step that could someday transform transplant medicine | The rat kidney was peculiarly beautiful — an edgeless viscera about the size of a quarter, gemstone-like and gleaming as if encased in pure glass.
It owed its veneer to a frosty descent in liquid nitrogen vapor to minus 150-degrees Celsius,... |