Lung Patients See a New Era of Transplants
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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 waiting.
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People with cystic fibrosis could be treated with genetically tweaked versions of their own stem cells. Researchers say that for the first time they have shown that human bone marrow-derived adult stem cells
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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Doctors at what was then known as Peter Bent Brigham Hospital performed the world&#39;s first successful organ transplant. Ronald Herrick -- then 23 and a resident of Northboro -- donated one of his kidneys to
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The sickest heart patients fare better when they are outfitted with an artificial device and tethered to a dishwasher-size power source while waiting for a heart transplant, says a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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This lung cancer drug is not as effective as once hoped.
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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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Rates of incurable lung condition chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are higher than previously thought, a study suggests.
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The national transplant waiting list has grown to more than 87,000 because organ donations from the dead have not kept up with demand. For help, frustrated patients increasingly are turning to the living &#151; even to strangers. That worries bioethicists, surgeons and federal officials who oversee the transplant system, which is designed to treat all patients fairly.
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In a large-scale test, transplanted   pancreas cells eliminated the need for insulin in some diabetes   patients, but for many the benefit was short-lived.
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AIDS drugs that work through novel mechanisms and next-generation versions of existing drugs will soon offer new options for the growing number of patients whose disease no longer responds to current drugs.
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Even though patients are waiting longer for a kidney transplant, those who do get one live longer than those who remain on dialysis, according to data presented last
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DENVER Oct 20, 2004 - A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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A University of Michigan study says changes in the bacteria and fungi (microflora) in the gastrointestinal tract may intensify immune system response to common allergens inhaled into the lungs.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site, hospital officials said.
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Advances in imaging shed light on how the disease develops.
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A visit to church may be good for the  soul but not so good for the lungs, a new study shows.