Hearts used in transplants can only be sourced from donors that are brain dead before circulation to their heart has ceased. Data from a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care indicate that ...
Oct 7, 2011
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There are significant variations in the number and type of organ donations made across all four UK countries, reveals research published online in BMJ Open.
Oct 3, 2011
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Clinicians from a leading UK children's hospital have called for European countries to change the way they tackle the shortage of organ donations from children, after a review, published in the September issue of Acta Paediatrica, ...
Sep 8, 2011
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Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center have transplanted the first lungs treated in the United States with an experimental repair process before transplantation. The procedure is part of a five-center national ...
Sep 8, 2011
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Spanish surgeons Monday performed the world's first double-leg transplant on a man whose legs were amputated above the knee after an accident, officials said.
Jul 11, 2011
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More than half of Sweden's intensive care nurses doubt that a clinical neurological examination can establish that a patient is brain dead. Intensive care nurses also perceive that this uncertainty can affect relatives when ...
Jun 28, 2011
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A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that HIV-infected deceased donors represent a potentially novel source of organs for HIV-infected transplant candidates that could decrease waitlist ...
May 23, 2011
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The weather is finally starting to warm up, and people are breaking out the shorts, bathing suits and flip-flops.
May 20, 2011
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How you think about death affects how you behave in life.
May 19, 2011
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Canadian researchers may be biased since a half-million dollar research grant to possibly change the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood has not been accessed, states a Salon article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association ...
May 2, 2011
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