With the constant need for blood and platelet donations, frequent, regular blood donors are crucial to having a continuous national blood supply. Across Mayo Clinic in Rochester, for example, anywhere between 50 and 70 units ...
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ABO blood-type compatibility between organ donors and recipients is crucial for safe transplantations. Across the different ABO blood groups, longer wait-times for a kidney transplant are often experienced by patients who ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Fewer than 4 in 100 men who apply to be sperm donors reach the end of the process and have samples frozen and released for treatments, according to a new study.
Jan 9, 2023
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A new method of donor-lung distribution is projected to decrease the number of candidate deaths who are on the waitlist for lung transplant, according to a study by Cleveland Clinic and the U.S. Scientific Registry of Transplant ...
Jan 5, 2023
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An existing drug could protect donor livers from damage during the transplantation process and reduce complications that occur afterwards, a study suggests.
Dec 21, 2022
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Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from a lean donor does not reduce body weight or improve the results of bariatric surgery among adults with severe obesity, according to a study published online Dec. 16 in JAMA Network ...
Dec 16, 2022
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U.S. Food & Drug Administration policies that have limited blood donations from men who have sex with men may soon ease.
Dec 1, 2022
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It's a fact women's fertility declines as they age. But the common description of fertility decline after age 35 as a "cliff" is more anxiety-provoking than factual.
Nov 30, 2022
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The number of organ donations and organ transplants goes up markedly during large motorcycle rallies, according to a newly published analysis led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Nov 28, 2022
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The risk of being infected by parvovirus is elevated in those people who have blood group Rh(D), according to a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases by researchers from Karolinska Institutetin Sweden in collaboration ...
Nov 25, 2022
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