http://www.mail.com/subjects/1544-organ-transplants.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/1544-organ-transplants.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2156466-to-ease-shortage-organs-grow-them-lab.html NEW YORK (AP) — By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery. Her cystic fibrosis was threatening her life, and her case spurred a debate on how to allocate donor organs. Lungs and other organs for transplant are scarce. But wha... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:02:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2156466-to-ease-shortage-organs-grow-them-lab.html 2013-06-17T19:02:04Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2156342-boston-hospital-to-offer-hand-transplants-kids.html A Boston hospital is starting the world's first hand transplant program for children, and doctors say it won't be long until face transplants and other radical operations to improve appearance and quality of life are offered to kids, too. The move shows the growing willingness to do transplants to enhance a patient's life rather than to save it as donated... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:45:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2156342-boston-hospital-to-offer-hand-transplants-kids.html 2013-06-17T05:45:18Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2152630-court-hearing-hold-lung-transplant-rules.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A court hearing over organ donor matches involving children is on hold after the 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl at the center of the lawsuit received a lung transplant. Sarah Murnaghan is recovering after receiving adult lungs this week at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Her parents had sued over national transplant rules that plac... Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:16:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2152630-court-hearing-hold-lung-transplant-rules.html 2013-06-14T17:16:40Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2150538-lungs-buy-time-cure-cystic-fibrosis.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who fought for a lung transplant has a difficult journey ahead. The transplant isn't a cure for her cystic fibrosis, and new lungs don't tend to last as long as other transplanted organs. But it can extend life by years, buying some time. "You're keeping them alive and hopefully well, hoping that somethi... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:40:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2150538-lungs-buy-time-cure-cystic-fibrosis.html 2013-06-13T21:40:48Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2148492-girl-who-took-transplant-rules-lungs.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis was recovering from a transplant of adult lungs after a judge's ruling expanded her options for lifesaving surgery. Sarah Murnaghan underwent a six-hour surgery Wednesday at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a procedure her aunt said resulted because of the larger list of available organs.... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:56:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2148492-girl-who-took-transplant-rules-lungs.html 2013-06-13T16:56:20Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2143200-lung-transplant-vote-children-seeks-balance.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — Faced with a federal judge's order in the heart-wrenching cases of two terminally ill children seeking lung transplants, a national review board sought a balance that will keep such decisions in the hands of doctors, not lawyers or judges. The executive committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network held an emergency tele... Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:48:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2143200-lung-transplant-vote-children-seeks-balance.html 2013-06-11T10:48:44Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2142696-us-transplant-network-resists-lung-rule-changes.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — The national organization that manages organ transplants on Monday resisted making emergency rule changes for children under 12 who are waiting on lungs but created a special appeal and review system to hear such cases. The executive committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network held a teleconference to consider children... Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:39:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2142696-us-transplant-network-resists-lung-rule-changes.html 2013-06-11T02:39:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2135270-judges-ruling-challenges-us-transplant-system.html WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a life or death matter: Who gets the next scarce donated organ? In an unprecedented challenge to the nation's transplant system, a federal judge has allowed one dying child — and a day later another — to essentially jump the line in rulings that could have ramifications for thousands of people awaiting new organs. Over and over, the... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:35:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2135270-judges-ruling-challenges-us-transplant-system.html 2013-06-07T08:35:53Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2133060-pa-girl-lung-donor-list-boy-sues.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A dying Pennsylvania girl has been placed on the adult waiting list for donated lungs amid a court fight over the nation's transplant rules with help from a judge who granted another petition Thursday from a boy at the same hospital. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network added 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan to the list Wednesd... Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:08:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2133060-pa-girl-lung-donor-list-boy-sues.html 2013-06-06T23:08:47Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2133324-berries-blamed-california-mans-hepatitis.html ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — Geoff Soza was celebrating his 30th wedding anniversary in Yellowstone National Park when the 64-year-old man learned the hard way that his seemingly healthy breakfast habit of mixing thawed berries with Greek yogurt had exposed him to a national outbreak of hepatitis A. Dozens of illnesses have been reported, and federal official... Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:58:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2133324-berries-blamed-california-mans-hepatitis.html 2013-06-06T22:58:15Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2134126-sebelius-pa-girl-waiting-list-adult-lung.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The organ transplant network has placed a dying 10-year-old girl on the adult waiting list for a donated lung, complying with a judge's unusual order. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday that Sarah Murnaghan also remains on the priority list for a lung from a pediatric donor. Sebelius said the Organ Procur... Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:46:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2134126-sebelius-pa-girl-waiting-list-adult-lung.html 2013-06-06T15:46:18Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2129318-sebelius-wont-intervene-pa-transplant-case.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. health secretary said she won't intervene in an "incredibly agonizing" transplant decision about a dying Pennsylvania girl, noting that three other children in the same hospital are just as sick. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a congressional panel Tuesday that medical experts should make those deci... Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:47:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2129318-sebelius-wont-intervene-pa-transplant-case.html 2013-06-05T01:47:13Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2123062-wife-lou-reed-recovering-liver-transplant.html LONDON (AP) — Rock icon Lou Reed is recovering after a life-saving liver transplant in the U.S., according to an interview with his wife published Saturday in a British newspaper. Laurie Anderson told the Times of London that Reed "was dying" before the operation several weeks ago at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic. She said 71-year-old Reed isn't back to full st... Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:45:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2123062-wife-lou-reed-recovering-liver-transplant.html 2013-06-01T12:45:36Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2112382-doc-face-transplant-patient-making-good-progress.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A surgeon who operated on Poland's first face transplant patient says the man is already practicing swallowing and making sounds. The 33-year-old man received a skin-and-bone transplant on May 15, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in a workplace accident. Doctors say it was the world's fastest time frame for su... Mon, 27 May 2013 13:27:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2112382-doc-face-transplant-patient-making-good-progress.html 2013-05-27T13:27:57Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2102504-polish-man-quick-face-transplant-injury.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. It was Poland's first face transplant. Face transplants are extraordinarily complicated and relatively rare procedures that us... Thu, 23 May 2013 03:11:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2102504-polish-man-quick-face-transplant-injury.html 2013-05-23T03:11:44Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2092928-cultural-attitudes-impede-organ-donations-china.html BEIJING (AP) — China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country's transplant system said Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among the general population. Almost all donated organs in China used to come from executed prisoners. A growing proportion now come ... Fri, 17 May 2013 14:24:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2092928-cultural-attitudes-impede-organ-donations-china.html 2013-05-17T14:24:29Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2087606-stem-cells-recovered-cloned-human-embryos.html NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes. A prominent expert called the work a landmark, but noted that a different, simpler technique now under development may prove more useful. Stem cells can turn i... Wed, 15 May 2013 16:40:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2087606-stem-cells-recovered-cloned-human-embryos.html 2013-05-15T16:40:05Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2056382-vt-woman-disfigured-attack-reveals-face.html BOSTON (AP) — A Vermont woman revealed her new face Wednesday, six years after her ex-husband disfigured her by dousing her with industrial-strength lye, and said she went through "what some may call hell" but has found a way to be happy. Carmen Blandin Tarleton of Thetford had face transplant surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital in February a... Thu, 02 May 2013 02:05:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2056382-vt-woman-disfigured-attack-reveals-face.html 2013-05-02T02:05:23Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2053854-toddler-youngest-to-lab-made-windpipe.html CHICAGO (AP) — A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment. Hannah Warren has been unable to breathe, eat, drink or swallow on her own since she was born in South Korea in 2010. Until the operation at a central Illinois hospital, she... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:43:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2053854-toddler-youngest-to-lab-made-windpipe.html 2013-04-30T19:43:09Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2053680-toddler-youngest-world-to-lab-made-windpipe.html CHICAGO (AP) — A 2-year-old born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells. She's the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment. Hannah Warren had been unable to breathe, eat, drink or swallow on her own since she was born in 2010 in South Korea. Until the operation three weeks ago in Peoria, Ill., s... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:50:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2053680-toddler-youngest-world-to-lab-made-windpipe.html 2013-04-30T14:50:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2051022-kosovo-3-jail-time-organ-trafficking-case.html PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A court in Kosovo found two citizens guilty of human trafficking and organized crime Monday in a major trial against seven people suspected of running an international organ trafficking ring that took kidneys from poor donors lured by financial promises. A panel of two European Union judges and one Kosovo judge sentenced urologist ... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:27:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2051022-kosovo-3-jail-time-organ-trafficking-case.html 2013-04-29T19:27:02Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2007434-robot-hot-surgeons-fda-taking-fresh.html CHICAGO (AP) — The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year — triple the number just four years earlier. But now the high-tech helper is under scrutiny over reports of problems, including several deaths that may be linked with it, and the high c... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:43:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2007434-robot-hot-surgeons-fda-taking-fresh.html 2013-04-09T17:43:50Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1959476-correction-transplant-rabies-death-story.html In a story March 16 about the death of a transplant recipient from a rabies-infected liver, The Associated Press, relying on information from a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokeswoman, reported an incorrect statistic regarding human-to-human transmission of rabies by biting. The only documented instance was in Ethiopia, not the United States, the CDC s... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:11:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1959476-correction-transplant-rabies-death-story.html 2013-03-19T19:11:41Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1952868-5-organ-transplant-patient-birth.html MIAMI (AP) — A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth. Fatema Al Ansari, 26, said Wednesday she was overjoyed after giving birth by cesarean section Feb. 26. She held t... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:38:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1952868-5-organ-transplant-patient-birth.html 2013-03-14T00:38:55Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1918820-vt-lye-victim-face-boston-hospital.html BOSTON (AP) — Loved ones knew it was her at the hospital when they saw her teeth. Carmen Blandin Tarleton's face was unrecognizable after the lye attack, burned away in the frenzy of an estranged husband's rage. Nearly six years later, the Vermont nurse is celebrating a gift that has given her a new image following a full facial transplant this month. ... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:15:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1918820-vt-lye-victim-face-boston-hospital.html 2013-02-28T00:15:32Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1853254-hospital-that-trashed-kidney-resumes-transplants.html TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio hospital where a nurse accidentally threw out a viable kidney has resumed its kidney transplant program. The University Toledo Medical Center had voluntarily suspended the transplant program after the Aug. 10 accident. After an investigation and policy changes, the hospital announced last month it was ready to resume the living... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1853254-hospital-that-trashed-kidney-resumes-transplants.html 2013-01-29T10:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1851286-soldier-who-lost-4-limbs-double-arm-transplant.html On Facebook, he describes himself as a "wounded warrior...very wounded." Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, and doctors revealed Monday that he's received a double-arm transplant. Those new arms "already move a little," he tweeted a month after the operation. Marr... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1851286-soldier-who-lost-4-limbs-double-arm-transplant.html 2013-01-28T21:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1851014-wounded-soldier-double-arm-transplant-md.html BALTIMORE (AP) — A soldier who lost all four limbs in a roadside bomb attack in 2009 in Iraq has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Hospital officials said Monday. Surgeons who treated the unidentified infantryman plan to discuss the transplant Tuesday at a news conference with the soldier. The soldier is one of seven in the U.S.... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1851014-wounded-soldier-double-arm-transplant-md.html 2013-01-28T15:11:00Z