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Blood Stem Cell Transplantation and Autoimmune Diseases
Study of Lupus Patient Confirms Promise of Stem Cell Transplant Therapy   view more (2002-05-30)

Protein level predicts who will develop deadly complication after marrow transplant
Researchers could determine one week after a bone marrow transplant which patients were likely to develop a serious and deadly complication, making them candidates for preventive treatment before any symptoms occur.   view more (2006-02-17)

Edmonton Protocol clinical trial shows islet transplantation shows promising results
The Edmonton Protocol clinical trial, led by University of Alberta researcher Dr. James Shapiro, shows islet transplantation is a promising procedure for certain patients with severe Type 1 Diabetes.   view more (2006-09-28)

Experimental immunusuppressant drug preserves transplanted kidneys, avoids toxic side effects
An international team of transplant physicians has shown that the investigational drug belatacept (LEA29Y) preserves transplanted kidney function as effectively as cyclosporine, the drug most commonly used to prevent the immune system from rejecting transplanted organs.   view more (2005-08-25)

Countries Need Greater Support And Less Stringent Conditions If Global Fund Goals Are To Be Met
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will today publish interim findings relating to how the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is being implemented in four African countries. The Fund was established in 2002 as a mechanism to get additional resources to... view more (2004-06-30)

Possible Hepatitis C vaccine
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infects up to 500,000 people in the UK alone, many of the infections going undiagnosed. It is the single biggest cause of people requiring a liver transplant in Britain.   view more (2007-09-06)

1 patient's account of becoming a live kidney donor
Annabel Ferriman, an editor at the BMJ, gives a frank first person account of her journey through the "protracted" and sometimes "frustrating" process of becoming a live kidney donor to her friend, Ray, who had been suffering from polycystic kidney disease for eight years.   view more (2008-06-16)

Children's national co-leads nationwide study of landmark sickle cell treatment
Children's National Medical Center immunologist and blood and marrow transplant physician Naynesh Kamani, MD, will serve as the study co-chair for a new national clinical trial of unrelated donor marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants for severe sickle cell disease.   view more (2008-08-19)

Type-1 Diabetics Benefit from Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplants
Pancreas transplants have been slow to gain acceptance as treatment for type-1 insulin-dependent diabetic patients suffering end-stage renal disease. A recent study, to be published in the September 2003 issue of the British Journal of Surgery, however, concludes that simultaneous pancreas and... view more (2003-08-21)

Geriatric patients receive significant benefit from cochlear implantation
Despite previous inconclusive research, geriatric patients do experience significant quality of life improvement (QOL) after receiving cochlear implants for hearing loss, says new research presented at the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual... view more (2008-09-22)

Drug may prolong organ life in noncompliant kidney transplant patients
New research from the University of California, San Diego Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, shows that the anti-rejection drug sirolimus (brand name Rapamune) may help prolong the clinical benefit of transplanted kidneys and delay rejection, especially in patients who do not regularly... view more (2008-06-02)

Fewer heart patients need antibiotics before dental procedures
Based on a review of new and existing scientific evidence, most dental patients with heart disease do not need antibiotics before dental procedures to prevent infective endocarditis (IE), a rare, but life-threatening heart infection.   view more (2007-04-20)

National trial gives 'unprecedented' support for steroid withdrawal in kidney transplants
Preliminary results of a study led by University of Cincinnati (UC) scientists suggest that reducing corticosteroid treatment in kidney transplant patients significantly lowers the toxic side effects of anti-rejection drugs without affecting survival rates.   view more (2006-07-25)

Another boost for stem cell research
In the wake of the Senate's decision to pass the human embryo cloning legislation, another Australian research breakthrough is likely to strengthen the case for embryonic stem cell research.   view more (2006-11-16)

Thymus transplants gives hope to babies with fatal immune disease
"My baby is doing what other babies her age are doing -- she's feeding herself, putting on her own clothes and she loves to dance."   view more (2007-05-16)

Genome discovery will help combat disease and lead to new drugs
An international consortium of researchers led by the University of Manchester has cracked the gene code behind a key family of fungi, which includes both the leading cause of death in leukaemia and bone marrow transplant patients and an essential ingredient of soy sauce.   view more (2005-12-22)

Transplant cures rats' type 2 diabetes without need for immune suppression drugs
An approach proven to cure a rat model of type 1 or juvenile-onset diabetes also works in a rat model of type 2 or adult-onset diabetes.   view more (2006-09-13)

Antibodies can halve risk of transplant rejection
Giving interleukin-2 receptor antibodies to patients after a kidney transplant can halve the risk of rejection, concludes a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers in Birmingham reviewed eight trials of interleukin-2 receptor antibodies versus placebo in 1,858 patients receiving standard... view more (2003-04-10)

Researcher tricks immune system in diabetic mice
The body's immune system hates strangers. When its security patrol spots a foreign cell, it annihilates it.   view more (2008-11-21)

Porcine islets offer promise for human diabetic patients
Islet cell xenotransplantation presents a promising near-term solution to the critically low islet cell supply for humans suffering from type 1 diabetes.   view more (2006-02-28)

Egg-sharing does not damage a donor's own chance of a baby say UK researchers
Women who take part in egg sharing programmes run by fertility clinics are not compromising their chance of having a baby by donating some of their eggs, according to UK research published today (Thursday 30 October) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1]. The... view more (2003-10-27)

Scientists discover new virus caused deaths of transplant recipients from single donor
Scientists in the Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues in the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia and 454 Life Sciences have discovered a new virus that was responsible for the deaths of... view more (2007-04-24)

Plastic surgeons countdown first full facial transplantation
Even after news of the first partial facial transplantation performed in France spread around the world, plastic surgeons have continued to research how to make the first full facial transplantation a reality.   view more (2006-03-02)

New Transplant Organ Sensor Technology
Scientists at the University of Ulster have unveiled a monitoring system that can ensure transplant organs arrive in pristine condition for the life-saving surgery. They have developed tiny sensors which are inserted in the organs, and which monitor if there has been any deterioration in the... view more (2002-05-22)

Islet Cell Transplantation For Diabetes Turns Corner With More Widespread Success, Researchers Say At International Congress Of The Transplantation Society
More diabetic patients are coming off insulin following pancreatic islet cell transplantation than ever before, according to multiple studies presented today at the XIX International Congress of The Transplantation Society being held through Aug. 30 at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa in... view more (2002-08-20)
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