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 umbilical cord blood from two separate donors appears to be a safe and effective treatment for leukemia, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Transplanting stem cells from a healthy woman to her sister with severe rheumatoid arthritis apparently cured the disease, researchers report in the journal Arthritis &amp; Rheumatism.
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A new implantable device can extract stem cells for therapeutic transplant or program cancer cells to die.
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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: British scientists have been given the go-ahead to begin potentially ground-breaking experiments using injections of stem cells to repair patients' damaged hearts
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Research into how the human body repairs damaged DNA is described as a "major breakthrough".
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - "It's a dream," proclaimed the beaming 32-year-old new mother Friday as she cuddled her day-old baby girl, born following a pioneering ovarian tissue transplant performed after the woman was made infertile by chemotherapy.    Doctors hailed the breakthrough procedure, saying it sent a "big message of hope" to cancer patients who have lost their fertility and could one day allow women to delay motherhood beyond menopause...
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Infusing patients with  bone marrow cells can reinvigorate their dying hearts and grow  tiny new arteries and heart muscle tissue, a treatment that may  one day make many heart transplants unnecessary, Brazilian  researchers said on Friday.
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Pulsing transplanted heart cells with electrical current helps them grow into mature cardiac cells, bringing doctors closer to a grow-your-own heart patch, US researchers said on Tuesday.
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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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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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A woman has become the first in the world to give birth to a live baby following an ovarian transplant in a breakthrough that could allow doctors to reverse the menopause and restore fertility to women in middle age.
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Scientists say they have found a safe way to give carbon monoxide to help organ transplant patients.
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Science & environment: Objective of growing replacement organs for humans has been brought a step closer
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An Australian teenage girl has become the world's first known transplant patient to change blood groups and take on the immune system of her organ donor, doctors said on Friday, calling her a "one-in-six-billion miracle."
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Patients who have benefited from donated organs were today celebrating 50 years since the worldâs first successful transplant operation.