Doctors Report Transplant Breakthrough
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LOS ANGELES -- In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
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Transplanting pig organs into humans may be much safer than previously thought, a study suggests.
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US scientists believe they have made a discovery which could mean a cure for more diabetic patients in the future. Some patients have already been cured by islet cell transplants, but a major obstacle is a
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Donor hearts could make good scaffolding for new organs.
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Scientists are successfully treating stress incontinence with a transplant of the patient's own stem cells.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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The art and science of successfully harvesting an organ from one body to give new life to another turns 50 today. Since the first successful kidney transplant by Dr.
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German physicians have pioneered a way to create and transplant bone grafts from one part of a patient&#39;s body to another. The work of Patrick H. Warnke and associates at the University of Kiel is summarized
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Scientists yesterday suggested that they could within a few years help cardiac patients repair and regenerate their hearts by using stem or parent cells from their own organs.
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Scientists may be a step closer to transplanting a kidney without the need for long-term medication.
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Bone marrow cells infused to the  heart through tiny incisions helped several severe heart  failure patients get markedly better, an international team of  researchers reported on Tuesday.
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The first human trial of an artificial 'bio' kidney offers  hope of a working implant for patients, say experts.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 5 -- The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan on Monday, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice.
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Transplanting stem cells from a healthy woman to her sister with severe rheumatoid arthritis apparently cured the disease, researchers report in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
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Science & environment: Objective of growing replacement organs for humans has been brought a step closer
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Research into how the human body repairs damaged DNA is described as a "major breakthrough".
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A new implantable device can extract stem cells for therapeutic transplant or program cancer cells to die.