MONDAY, Nov. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The difference between age 69 and age 70 is, of course, just a single year. Yet, organizations that receive organs for transplant patients are less likely to choose one from the older donor, a new study finds. American organ procurement organizations and transplantContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Less than a year after the first-ever transplant of a pig heart into a human patient, doctors are reporting that the heart showed unexpected changes in its electrical system before the recipient ultimately died. The changes are not believed to have contributed toContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A person with heart failure in dire need of a new heart may have faced delays in getting one during the pandemic when potential donors tested positive for COVID-19. As some centers began accepting these hearts for transplant anyway, data from a newContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Some human livers are tougher than others, lasting more than 100 cumulative years between the organ’s original host and a transplant recipient, a new study discovers. Understanding what makes these livers so resilient could help improve the donor pool by paving the wayContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Thousands of people die every year while waiting for a liver transplant. Living-donor transplantation holds the potential to save many of these lives, yet remains underused in the United States. During the procedure, a portion of a donor’s liver is removed and transplantedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Using only mouse stem cells, British researchers report they have created synthetic embryos that form a brain, a beating heart and other organs. The stem cells organized themselves until they developed beating hearts and the foundations of the brain and yolk sacs whereContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 17, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Children who need kidney transplants have better long-term outcomes when the donor is a living person and not someone who has died and donated organs, a new study finds. “The findings of our study should lay to rest any fears and concerns thatContinue Reading
Vital Signs Aug (HCV) Press Statement_EMBARGOED_ (1).pdf WEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Less than one-third of people with hepatitis C get treatment for this potentially deadly, but curable, infection within a year of their diagnosis, a new government report warns. Spread by contact with blood from an infectedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Minutes after a heartbeat stops, a massive series of disastrous events triggered by lack of blood flow begins to destroy a body’s cells and organs. This chain of events had been thought to be inevitable and irreversible. Now, a new animal study showsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — About 30% of adults around the world have a buildup of fat in the liver, a condition called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Now an international team of researchers has linked that condition to a heightened risk of heart failure. NAFLD, as it isContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Genetically altered pig hearts could soon become a viable transplantation alternative for people with life-threatening heart disease, new experiments show. A team at NYU Langone Health has successfully transplanted two such pig hearts into brain-dead humans on life support, making advances that mayContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For women who can’t get pregnant because they don’t have a uterus or the one they have no longer works properly, uterine transplants can indeed help these women become mothers, new research shows. Of 33 women who received a uterus transplant in theContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Americans may have a collective drinking problem, made worse by the obesity epidemic, new research suggests. The new study found that deaths from alcoholic cirrhosis have more than tripled in 20 years. In 1999, alcoholic cirrhosis — an advanced form of alcohol-related liverContinue Reading
THURSDAY, June 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have figured out a way to safely give children a donor kidney without the need for immune-suppressing drugs — an advance they hope to expand to many more kidney transplant patients in coming years. Reporting in the June 15 issue of theContinue Reading