AST Encourages Employers To Adopt Paid Leave Policies For Living Organ Donors Via Awareness Campaign Effort
The number of living organ donors can be increased if more employers offered paid leave to employees who act as live organ donors. That is the message of the American Society of Transplantation's (AST) new outreach campaign, which is aimed at corporations, institutions and local/state governments.
FDA Reposts Warning About Pregnancy-Related Risks Associated With Organ Transplant Drugs
FDA on Friday reposted a notice warning that Roche and Novartis drugs prescribed for organ transplant recipients could cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women and urged doctors to confirm that transplant patients are not pregnant and are using effective contraception, the.
For Some Dads Father's Day Is Extra Special
While gardening gloves and golf balls will be typical presents in thousands of homes this Father's Day, one special group of dads can thank their children for something far more valuable - the gift of life. Figures from NHS UK Transplant show that at least 125 children - 74 sons and 51 daughters - have donated a kidney to save their dad since the first recorded child-to-father transplant in 1982.
Long-Term Outcome Of Pediatric Renal Transplantation: The Norwegian Experience In Three Eras 1970-2006
UroToday.com - Tangeraas, et al. retrospectively reviewed their experience with pediatric renal transplantation between the years of 1970 to 2006. Overall, 251 renal transplantations were performed in 178 children in Norway. 84% of the transplantations were living donors and 52% were performed preemptively.
New Campaign To Encourage Organ Donation, UK
Diabetes UK Cymru is supporting a campaign to encourage more people to register to donate their organs in Wales.During the last five years more than 750 lives have been transformed by a transplant, but more than 150 people have died before a donor could be found.
No Racial Disparities Found In Long-Term Outcomes In Recipients Of Liver Transplants
New research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows long-term survival and liver rejection rates are equivalent for African-American liver transplant patients as compared with patients of other races. The study also suggests that although other factors such as liver cancer or hepatitis may negatively influence long-term survival, race does not.
Moffitt Cancer Center Hosts Free Bone Marrow Transplantation Symposium - Topics To Include Leukemia, Lymphoma And Myeloma
Physicians from Moffitt Cancer Center's Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, the largest in Florida, in collaboration with faculty from the
ParkwayHealth's Living Donor Liver Transplant Program Continues To Meet Patient Demands
ParkwayHealth, Asia's leading healthcare provider with the largest network of private hospitals and healthcare services headquartered in Singapore and the first in Asia to perform a living donor liver transplant (LDLT) in 2002, reports that its Gleneagles Hospital has performed over one hundred successful LDLT procedures to date.
Antibiotics Accompanying Surgery Prevent Some Infections But Increasingly Cause Another
The risk of contracting a Clostridium difficile infection following operations for which a "prophylactic" antibiotic is given to prevent infection is 21 times greater now than it was just a decade ago, according to researchers from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada.
Kidney Transplant Patients May Benefit From Going Off Of Certain Immunosuppressive Drugs
Withdrawing certain immunosuppressive drugs following kidney transplantation prolongs survival and saves money compared with keeping patients on these medications for life, according to a study appearing in the September 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).