When clinical trials were conducted to determine the immunogenicity—the ability to elicit an immune response—for the first two vaccines marshaled against SARS-CoV-2the virus that causes COVID-19, one group was not among ...
Mar 25, 2021
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A new study raised questions about how well COVID-19 vaccines protect organ transplant recipients—and what precautions people with suppressed immune systems should take after the shots.
Mar 15, 2021
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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have shown that it is possible for solid organ transplant recipients who contract COVID-19 to experience a natural immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease. In their ...
Feb 10, 2021
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A new medication which can be applied to the skin could help prevent organ transplant recipients from developing harmful skin cancers.
Nov 19, 2020
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A new study, published in Transplantation, finds that risk of death from COVID-19 in organ transplant recipients may be based upon how the patient was treated.
Oct 2, 2020
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As any new mom would, Erin Anthony worried about germs before the coronavirus outbreak.
Mar 25, 2020
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A new website developed by researchers at Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) is making it easier for organ transplant candidates to choose which transplant center is right ...
Feb 24, 2020
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To help prevent organ rejection, transplant recipients could receive drug cocktails personalised to their own immune systems if a new test, which has passed early trials, is successful. And new methods for scrubbing animal ...
Jul 9, 2019
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While organ transplant recipients receive continual care as the end-stage treatment to their condition, attention also should be given to living donors, who can suffer from hypertension, diabetes and other disorders after ...
Apr 12, 2019
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The introduction of generic versions of immunosuppressive drugs has resulted in substantial cost savings for transplant patients and Medicare, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of ...
Feb 28, 2019
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