Couples Meet in Person for First Time Following Life-Saving Kidney Swap...
(Source: Lehigh Valley Health Network Inc) (Left-Right) Barbara and Stanley Slovinsky meet for the first time with Monica and Mark Norman since they became connected through a unique kidney exchange...
View ArticleDoctors are planning the first uterus transplant in the US — here's what that...
Women could soon receive a transplanted uterus just like a heart or liver organ donation. For women without a uterus, because they were born that way or because they had surgery to remove it, getting...
View ArticleHansa Medical interim report January – September 2015 (Hansa Medical AB)
(Source: Hansa Medical AB) January - September 2015 in summary Significant events during the third quarter Hansa Medical received FDA Orphan Drug Designation for IdeS in solid organ transplant...
View ArticleViswanathan Anand lauds Chennai hospital on first birthday
CHENNAI: After a year of performing complex procedures including liver, kidney and bone marrow transplants,...
View ArticleMedical institute celebrates first anniversary
SRM Institutes for Medical Science, Vadapalani, celebrated its first anniversary on Saturday. Chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand...
View ArticleSutter Medical Center Named a Top Cardiac Hospital in Nation (Sutter Health...
(Source: Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region) Posted by Gary Zavoral on Nov 12, 2015 in Cardiac Services, Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region, Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento | 0 comments...
View ArticleLung transplant recipient meets her organ donor's family
Two weeks after she was pronounced a dead woman walking, Tracey Slatter opened her eyes, breathed through her new lungs and knew at once she had a letter to write. She had reached the end stages of a...
View ArticleSutter Medical Center Named a Top Cardiac Hospital in Nation (Sutter Medical...
(Source: Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento) Posted by Gary Zavoral on Nov 12, 2015 in Cardiac Services, Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region, Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento | 0 comments SACRAMENTO...
View ArticleUS hospital to give women a uterus - and then take it away
Cleveland: Within the next few months, surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic expect to become the first in the United States to transplant a uterus into a woman who lacks one, so she can become pregnant and...
View ArticleUterus transplants offer new life to women
CLEVELAND — Six doctors swarmed around the body of the deceased organ donor and quickly started to operate. The kidneys came out first. Then the team began another delicate dissection, to remove an...
View ArticleParishioner donates kidney to pastor
Jerry Walls had something he wanted to get off of his chest one Sunday morning. His kidneys were failing. For 28 years, Walls has been a pastor at the 3,000-member Southside Baptist Church in Warner...
View ArticleMechanical Circulatory Support in a Nutshell (American College of Cardiology...
(Source: American College of Cardiology Foundation) Interest in mechanical circulatory support (MCS) developed concurrently with interest in cardiopulmonary bypass and open-heart surgery in the 1950s....
View ArticleMethodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health...
(Source: The University of Tennessee Health Science Center) Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) today announced a $40 million gift, the...
View ArticleJoint Statement of UPMC and Highmark Regarding Continuity of Care »...
(Source: University of Pittsburgh) allergy, alzheimer, amputation, anemia, annual report, arthritis, assisted living, asthma, athletic training, arryhthmia, audiology, autism, back pain, bariatric...
View ArticleJoint Statement of UPMC and Highmark Regarding Continuity of Care (UPMC -...
(Source: UPMC - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) allergy, alzheimer, amputation, anemia, annual report, arthritis, assisted living, asthma, athletic training, arryhthmia, audiology, autism,...
View Article‘Look Good Feel Better’ Program for Cancer Patients and Survivors (UPMC -...
(Source: UPMC - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) allergy, alzheimer, amputation, anemia, annual report, arthritis, assisted living, asthma, athletic training, arryhthmia, audiology, autism,...
View ArticleMechanical Circulatory Support in the Morbidly Obese: Laying Out the Facts...
(Source: American College of Cardiology Foundation) When encountering a problem, its nature and scope must be assessed honestly and comprehensively prior to determining what strategic approach(es)...
View ArticleIn a first, 14-year-old gets skin transplant in Rajasthan
JAIPUR: Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital doctors scripted history when they conducted the first skin transplant of the state to give a new lease of life to a 14-year-old boy who had suffered 40% burns...
View ArticleFirst skin transplant in Rajasthan gives new life to Jaipur teenager
JAIPUR: After the first-ever heart transplant in August, the city doctors have achieved another remarkable feat by conducting the first skin transplant in state. The Sawai Man Singh (SMS) hospital...
View ArticleApollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performs Asia’s first en-bloc combined...
(Source: Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd) Reiterating its position as the leading transplant centre in the world by performing the most complex en-bloc combined heart and liver transplant, Apollo...
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