Transplantation

Transplanting new inhibitory neurons may repair damaged brain circuitsCredit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, Calif. - November 14, 2019 - Researchers from the University of California, Irvine developed a breakthrough cell therapy…

Credit: Steven Kohl Heart failure is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the most severe cases, heart transplantation is the sole option for improving quality of life and survival. However, every year…

Credit: Benjamin John Keough, ANU The Chinese government may have been systematically misreporting the number of organs it claims it has voluntarily collected since 2010, according to new research published in BMC Medical Ethics.…

University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers test exploratory drug-device combination to prevent lung-destroying airway inflammation Baltimore, Md., November 13, 2019 - University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers…

Algorithm developed by physicists and cardiologists achieved 88 percent success rateCredit: Avi Yagil When Avi Yagil, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of California San Diego flew home from Europe in 2012, he…

Common drug offers fewer side effects than prednisone, but similar organ rejection rates in liver transplants in preliminary studiesCredit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--A drug commonly used to treat both asthma…

The Kidney Project, a national effort to develop an implantable bio-artificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis, will announce a key milestone in a November 7, 2019 presentation at the American Society of Nephrology…

Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Researchers at Columbia University were able to grow fully functional lungs in mouse embryos using transplanted stem cells. The findings suggest that it may be ultimately possible to…

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 5, 2019 - Using U.S. transplant registry data, clinical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that kidney transplants between identical twins have high success rates, but also high rates…

Less than 20 per cent of Canadian patients get a critical urine test by their family physician to gauge severity of kidney disease and guide treatment Millions of Canadians living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) may be going without…