Medical research
Q&A: Bone marrow transplants save lives but more donors are needed
Dear Mayo Clinic: Who can be a bone marrow donor? What's the process for becoming one?
Sep 19, 2019
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News tagged with donor
Ophthalmology
New contact lens to treat eye injuries
A new therapeutic contact lens that acts as a bandage for eye surface injuries being developed by QUT researchers could soon fast track the healing of previously difficult to treat corneal wounds.
Nov 5, 2018
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Neuroscience
Using donor stem cells to treat spinal cord injury
A new study in mice published in The Journal of Neuroscience details a potential therapeutic strategy that uses stem cells to promote recovery of motor activity after spinal cord injury.
Aug 28, 2017
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Other
What's the best strategy to increase living kidney donation?
A new analysis indicates that few strategies to increase living kidney donation have been evaluated effectively; however, educational strategies targeted to recipients and their family and friends have the best evidence of ...
Aug 17, 2017
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Other
Toronto XVIV0 Lung Perfusion System allows high-risk lungs to be safely transplanted
For the first time, scientists at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network have shown in a clinical trial that the Toronto XVIVO System can safely and effectively treat, re-assess and improve the function of high-risk ...
Apr 13, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 antibodies in donated plasma decline within first months after symptom onset
Although there is still uncertainty about the clinical benefits and role of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19, new research suggests that the earlier plasma is collected after the donor's recovery from COVID-19, the better, ...
Oct 1, 2020
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Cardiology
In historic procedure, donor liver protects heart transplant
Doctors in Seattle are reporting a history-making case in which a patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extreme likelihood that her body would reject a donor heart transplanted alone. In this ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Surgery
Mayo Clinic Minute: 'Liver in a box' is saving lives with new technology
It is new technology called "liver in a box," and it's improving outcomes for patients who receive lifesaving transplants.
Apr 20, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Marijuana use has no effect on kidney transplant outcomes
A new study in Clinical Kidney Journal indicates that the usage of marijuana by kidney donors has no measurable effect upon the outcomes of kidney transplants for donors or recipients. This study is the first to investigate ...
Nov 15, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Health care worker dying of COVID-19 receives lungs from person who recovered from the disease but died in an accident
Surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital last month performed the first known double lung transplant in the U.S. that used lungs donated from someone who recovered from COVID-19 to save another person who was dying of the ...
Mar 25, 2021
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