Doctors report transplant breakthrough
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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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After deciding to keep a baby alive in California with a device not approved for use in the U.S., doctors performed a heart transplant on Monday.
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It took 12 surgeons, six operating rooms and five donors to pull it off, but five desperate strangers simultaneously received new organs in what hospital officials Monday described as the first-ever quintuple kidney transplant.
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Donor hearts could make good scaffolding for new organs.
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Curing blindness and treating diabetes "naturally" in mice are just two of the recent breakthroughs that suggest stem cells hold real potential for helping humans.
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Advances in medical science have made transplant surgery a desired treatment for some serious diseases. Unfortunately, while the number of patients needing a transplant increases, the availability of donated organs remains small.
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Katy Scivyer is living proof that transplant medicine has come a long way in the 50 years since the world&#39;s first successful human organ transplant.
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One of four brothers diagnosed with a rare disease is re-admitted to hospital following a transplant.
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Over the last five decades, surgeons have learned how to transplant virtually every vital organ in the human body.
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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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Scientists say they have found a safe way to give carbon monoxide to help organ transplant patients.
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Scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the whole organ. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team hope the work will lead to new ways of repairing heart damage.
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Scientists believe they have made a breakthrough in IVF treatment by creating a human embryo with three separate parents.
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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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Pulsing transplanted heart cells with electrical current helps them grow into mature cardiac cells, bringing doctors closer to a grow-your-own heart patch, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died on the waiting list.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A team of doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands say in a new medical journal article that they are ready to perform a face transplant.