Illegal organ trade is more sophisticated than one might think: Who's behind it and how it could be controlled
Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news.
Jun 28, 2023
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Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news.
Jun 28, 2023
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Medical science has made tremendous advancements over the past 70 years. One of these is the transplant of human organs from one person to another. The first transplant—a kidney—was in the US in 1954.
Jun 23, 2023
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Clinicians have a new standard for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prevention after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to results from a phase III study published June 22 in the New England Journal ...
Jun 22, 2023
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So far, there are no specific drugs to treat the hepatitis E virus. Doctors only have the broad-spectrum antiviral drug ribavirin at their disposal, which is often associated with severe side effects. Drugs against other ...
Jun 21, 2023
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Hepatitis C is often missed in the early stages of infection, so you need to know what symptoms might spell trouble.
Jun 13, 2023
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Kidneys from organ donors who were diagnosed with COVID-19 are safe to transplant and don't transmit the virus to people who receive those organs, according to a new study led by researchers at Washington University School ...
Jun 12, 2023
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A kidney from a deceased donor is supposed to be allocated to the top-ranked patient on a transplant center's waiting list, identified using an objective algorithm to rank patients based on age, waiting time, and other factors.
Jun 8, 2023
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In a nationwide Swedish study involving more than 12,000 individuals with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), researchers found a significantly increased risk of severe infections requiring hospital admission. The study ...
May 29, 2023
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Forty years after the discovery of HIV, AFP looks at how far we have come in fighting a deadly virus that was once shrouded in fear and shame but is now treated as a manageable chronic condition.
May 10, 2023
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A new Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center study in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology investigated how endometriosis, uterine leiomyomas (also known as fibroids) and a common intervention for these conditions—hysterectomy—changed ...
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