transplant

Vivien Williams: Organ transplantation has come a long way in the past decades. Take heart transplants, for example. It used to be that only people under age 50 could get them and they were fairly risky. Now, people in their seventies or…

Vivien Williams: This is a story of the power of perseverance and love. A man named Kevin Lue was a triathlete who developed a rare disease that caused his heart to fail. In a matter of months, he went from intense competition to barely…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a historic achievement, the Organ Transplant Center of Excellence (OTCoE) team at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) has successfully performed…

A man dubbed the "Geneva patient" is the latest person with HIV to be declared in long-term remission -- however he did not receive a transplant with a virus-blocking gene mutation like previous cases, researchers said…

Pune, India, July 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to Recently Published Report by The Insight Partners, “Hair Transplant Market Forecast to 2025 – COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis – Technique, Site of Transplant, Therapy,” the…

Published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, University of Minnesota Medical School researchers led a study that demonstrated the safety of using microbiota transplant therapy (MTT) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) -- a type…

Clinicians have a new standard for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prevention after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to results from a phase III study published June 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine.…

MINNEAPOLIS, June 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Results of a Phase III randomized clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that a new strategy for prevention of graft versus host disease (GVHD) for blood…

Lori Solomon FRIDAY, June 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Outcomes of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and second complete…

BOCA RATON, Fla., June 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gift of Life Marrow Registry raised $1.4 million at its One Huge Night Gala, held at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York on June 8, 2023. The funds raised during the event will…