http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Waiting to treat the commonest viral infections in transplant recipients until they reach a certain threshold is better than prophylactically treating all recipients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-reveals-optimal-treatment-common-infection.html Other Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:10:01 EST news264953486 (HealthDay) -- For organ transplant recipients, patients factors, including sex and skin type, and receipt of advice from health care providers, are both associated with sun protective behaviors, according to a study published online Aug. 9 in the British Journal of Dermatology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-factors-tied-photoprotection-idd-recipients.html Surgery Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:40:01 EST news264774264 (HealthDay) -- A novel approach using a bioengineered mobilized cellular product enriched with hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and tolerogenic graft facilitating cells (FCs) in combination with nonmyeloablative conditioning is safe and practical for inducing immune tolerance after transplantation, according to a study published in the March 7 issue of Science Translational Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-stem-cells-conditioning-immune-tolerance.html Immunology Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:20:01 EST news250442462 New ongoing research published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine suggests organ transplant recipients may not require anti-rejection medication in the future thanks to the power of stem cells, which may prove to be able to be manipulated in mismatched kidney donor and recipient pairs to allow for successful transplantation without immunosuppressive drugs. Northwestern Medicine® and University of Louisville researchers are partnering on a clinical trial to study the use of donor stem cell infusions that have been specially engineered to "trick" the recipients' immune system into thinking the donated organ is part of the patient's natural self, thus gradually eliminating or reducing the need for anti-rejection medication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-transplant-method-kidney-recipients-life.html Medical research Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:00:02 EST news250347854 Mayo Clinic in Florida is now offering kidney and pancreas transplants to HIV positive patients with advanced kidney disease and diabetes. Evidence is now solid that HIV-positive patients have the same favorable outcome in terms of patient and allograft survival as non-HIV positive organ transplant recipients, says Mary Prendergast, M.D., a kidney specialist whose focus is the care of patients who receive kidney and pancreas transplants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-mayo-clinic-kidney-pancreas-transplant.html Other Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:02:52 EST news242398957 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects nine out of ten people worldwide at some point during their lifetimes. Infections in early childhood often cause no disease symptoms, but people infected during adolescence or young adulthood may develop infectious mononucleosis, a disease characterized by swollen lymph nodes, fever and severe fatigue. EBV also is associated with several kinds of cancer, including Hodgkin lymphoma and stomach and nasal cancers. Organ transplant recipients and people infected with HIV (who become infected with or who already are infected with EBV) also may develop EBV-associated cancers. There is no vaccine to prevent EBV infection and no way for doctors to predict whether an EBV-infected person will develop virus-associated cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-nih-scientists-outline-epstein-barr-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:43:22 EST news239467388 Patients who have received a solid organ transplant, such as kidney, liver, heart or lung, have an overall cancer risk that is double that of the general population, with an increased risk for many different types of malignancies, according to a study in the November 2 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-recipients-transplants-broad-range-cancers.html Cancer Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:26:55 EST news239383608 A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals an association between the human papillomavirus (betaPV) infection and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in organ transplant recipients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-hpv-infection-highly-prevalent-transplant.html Other Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:38:18 EST news229685882