January 17, 2021

DUBAI: Video: UAE’s first kidney transplant from live donor saves teen prodigy’s life – News

Sheikh Mohammed pens special letter to the boy: Keep smiling little warrior. A 16-year-old boy has got a new lease of life as doctors in Dubai performed the first ever paediatric

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January 17, 2021

In a pinch, sister donates blood and bone marrow to Midtown teen | Atlanta

When Midtown resident Sofia Irlando was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a blood and bone marrow cancer, Aug. 26, 2019, it was quite a surprise since there was no cancer

Stem Cell Transplants

World

January 17, 2021

UK: Ashley Cain’s daughter to get stem cell transplant tomorrow but is warned success is unlikely as tot’s leukaemia returns

ASHLEY Cain’s daughter will undergo a stem cell transplant tomorrow after a cord donor was found to be a match for the tot. However the TV star and his partner Safiyya

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January 16, 2021

Diabetes Drug Reduces Acute GVHD After Stem Cell Transplant

Acute graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) is a potentially deadly complication after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), occurring in 30% to 50% of patients within 100 days of transplant. A new study

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Liver Transplants

January 14, 2021

Scoring system to redefine how U.S. patients prioritized for liver transplant

Liver transplant priority in the U.S. goes to the sickest patients, which fails to consider other important factors, including how long patients are likely to survive post-transplant. Researchers with Sylvester Comprehensive

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World

January 12, 2021

JAMAICA: Parents of 5-year-old boy with cancer need $30m (Jamaican) for bone marrow transplant

WHEN five-year-old Andre Arnett first started complaining of pain in his right arm while playing in April last year, his mother did not think much of it. She gave him

January 12, 2021

Non-Hispanic Black patients are disproportionately left off liver transplant waitlists

CHICAGO (January 11, 2021): A new study of liver transplant centers confirms that non-Hispanic white patients get placed on liver transplant waitlists at disproportionately higher rates than non-Hispanic Black patients.

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January 9, 2021

INDIA: I am too poor to afford my daughter’s bone marrow transplant Please help

Archana’s daughter, Tejaswini is just 10-years-old. Tejaswini has been fighting Thalassemia, a type of blood disorder. “I always see Tejaswini in pain while undergoing blood transfusions. The injection really scares her.

January 9, 2021

Nerve, Kidney Damage Predict AIP Liver Transplant Outcome, Study Finds

A liver transplant is effective and is associated with high survival rates in people with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), a study reports. However, severe neuropathy, or nerve damage, and chronic kidney

January 9, 2021

VIDEO: SD man who said COVID-19 was fake needs double lung transplant to live

by: Nexstar Media Wire and Angela Kennecke, KELO Posted: Jan 8, 2021 / 04:55 PM EST / Updated: Jan 8, 2021 / 04:55 PM EST SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A South

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