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Organ donor bill stalls

2012-01-27T16:20:00.000-08:00

Organ donor bill stalls: A bill to require 30 minutes of instruction in driver's education classes on organ donation is dying a quiet death in the General Assembly. Del. Richard P. "Dickie" Bell's bill was inspired by a campaign by Turner Ashby High School student Maddie ...
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Alzheimer's neurons induced from pluripotent stem cells

2012-01-27T16:16:00.000-08:00

Alzheimer's neurons induced from pluripotent stem cells: Stem-cell-derived neurons, made from patients with Alzheimer's disease, provide a new tool for unraveling the mechanisms underlying the neurodegenerative disease. In this image, DNA is shown in blue, dendrites and cell bodies in red and endosomal ...
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Steroid-Sparing Renal Transplant Yields Successful Outcomes

2012-01-27T16:13:00.000-08:00

Steroid-Sparing Renal Transplant Yields Successful Outcomes: Rapid discontinuation of prednisone five days after renal transplantation from a living or deceased donor yields acceptable 10-year patient and graft outcomes, according to research published online Jan. 26 in the Clinical Journal of the American ...
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Live Liver Donations Confirmed As Safe

2012-01-27T16:10:00.000-08:00

Live Liver Donations Confirmed As Safe: According to Johns Hopkins researchers, individuals who donate a portion of their liver for live transplantation usually recover safely from the procedure and can expect to live long, healthy lives. The study is published in the February issue of the ...
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Stop taking steroids: Kidney transplant recipients may not need long-term ...

2012-01-27T07:27:00.000-08:00

Stop taking steroids: Kidney transplant recipients may not need long-term ...: Rapid discontinuation of the immunosuppressive steroid prednisone after a kidney transplant can help prevent serious side effects, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN).
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Stem cell injections may fix damaged heart muscle

2012-01-27T07:26:00.001-08:00

Stem cell injections may fix damaged heart muscle: “We are trying to develop a new therapy for patients who have heart failure,” says Dr. Terrence Yau, a cardiac surgeon and director of the cardiac stem cell therapy program at Toronto General's Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. About 50000 Canadians are ...
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Stem cell injections may fix damaged heart muscle

2012-01-27T07:26:00.000-08:00

Tom Brady seeking new kidney for mentor

2012-01-27T07:24:00.000-08:00

Tom Brady seeking new kidney for mentor: By Darren Soens FOXBORO, Mass. (WPRI) - As Patriots quarterback Tom Brady works hard on the practice field to bring another Lombardi Trophy to New England, off the field he is hard at work trying to save the life of his longtime mentor.
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Eye Study Is a Small but Crucial Advance for Stem-Cell Therapy

2012-01-26T06:08:00.000-08:00

Eye Study Is a Small but Crucial Advance for Stem-Cell Therapy:

The results show that the treatment can be safe, but whether it can be effective is another question. By Karen Weintraub The first published clinical trial of stem-cell therapy is a tremendous boon to the company leading the experiment—but it's only a ...
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Turkey : First face transplant patient utters his first words after Operation

2012-01-26T06:03:00.000-08:00

Turkey : First face transplant patient utters his first words after Operation:

First face transplant patient in Turkey utters his first words as he recovers after face transplant operation in Antalya. Antalya / NationalTurk – The face transplant patient Uğur Acar's first visitors at the hospital ward were Antalya Gov.
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Justin Bieber's Organ Donor Encouragement Causes Spike in Registrations

2012-01-25T18:43:00.000-08:00

Justin Bieber's Organ Donor Encouragement Causes Spike in Registrations: That's why when the Biebs showed his support for a fan in need by encouraging his fans to consider donating their organs, organ donor registrations saw a significant jump. 20-year-old Helene Campbell is in need of a lung transplant, and since she and ...
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Record number of Arizonans donating organs

2012-01-25T18:42:00.001-08:00

Record number of Arizonans donating organs: More than 112000 people in the US are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant - 2100 of them live in Arizona. Donor Network of Arizona spokesperson Kris Patterson says their goal is to sign up 500000 people as donors to contribute to the nationwide ...
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Stem Cell Therapy Helps Improve Vision

2012-01-25T18:42:00.000-08:00

Stem Cell Therapy Helps Improve Vision: Preliminary results from clinical trials in which Dr. Steven Schwartz, the Ahmanson Professor of Ophthalmology and chief of the retina division at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute, and colleagues are testing therapies derived from human embryonic stem ...
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Stem cell research: no laughing matter

2012-01-25T18:41:00.000-08:00

Stem cell research: no laughing matter: Larry Goldstein has written what his UC San Diego colleague Vivian Reznik jokingly refers to as the definitive text on stem cell research: “Stem Cells for Dummies.” “I hope it will be made into a movie some day,” wisecracks Goldstein, who directs UCSD ...
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Cardiac-Assist Pump Will Help Kids Who Need Transplant

2012-01-25T17:17:00.000-08:00

Cardiac-Assist Pump Will Help Kids Who Need Transplant:

Heart surgeons who care for children are hailing the arrival of a new child-sized blood pump. They say that babies and kids who are waiting for a heart transplant now have a fighting chance, just like adults. The good news is that most children with ...
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Stem Cell Therapy Helps Improve Vision

2012-01-25T17:16:00.000-08:00

Stem Cell Therapy Helps Improve Vision: The Indo-Asian News Service reported Tuesday on research by UCLA professor of anthropology Robert Boyd and colleagues showing that cultures that permit polygamy tend to have higher levels of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality.
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University of South Carolina to host speaker who investigates stem cell use in ...

2012-01-24T13:18:00.000-08:00

University of South Carolina to host speaker who investigates stem cell use in ...: AP COLUMBIA, SC — An expert in the area of stem cell research in medicine is speaking at the University of South Carolina. University spokesman Steven Powell says Elaine Fuchs, who is a researcher with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland, ...
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University of South Carolina to host speaker who investigates stem cell use in ...

2012-01-24T13:17:00.000-08:00

Stem Cell Treatment for Eye Diseases Shows Promise

2012-01-24T13:11:00.001-08:00

Stem Cell Treatment for Eye Diseases Shows Promise: LOS ANGELES — A treatment for eye diseases that is derived from human embryonic stem cells might have improved the vision of two patients, bolstering the beleaguered field, researchers reported Monday. The report, published online in the medical ...
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Stem Cell Treatment for Eye Diseases Shows Promise

2012-01-24T13:11:00.000-08:00

Candidates play to the right on science

2012-01-24T13:10:00.000-08:00

Candidates play to the right on science:

Both are taking staunchly conservative positions on controversial science issues: they are against regulating carbon emissions and oppose embryonic stem-cell research. Yet both have held more moderate views in the past. And, with concern growing about ...
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Federal rule would ease access for face, hand transplants

2012-01-23T14:18:00.000-08:00

Federal rule would ease access for face, hand transplants: But recent advancements in immunosuppressive therapies and surgical skills led to the first face and hand transplants, said Dr. Siemionow, who led the country's first successful face transplant in 2008. Such transplants are expected to become more ...
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Sarah Burke Death: Freestyle Skiier to Donate Organs

2012-01-23T14:13:00.000-08:00

Sarah Burke Death: Freestyle Skiier to Donate Organs:

... Donate Life America reported. More than 100000 men, women and children need life-saving organ transplants, according to Donate Life statistics. Every 10 minutes one name is added to the nation organ transplant waiting list and an average of 18 ...
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Stem Cell Therapy Safe in Macular Degeneration

2012-01-23T14:11:00.000-08:00

Stem Cell Therapy Safe in Macular Degeneration: In the first application of its kind, human embryonic stem cells were safely used to treat macular degeneration in two patients, researchers found. There also was some evidence of improvement in vision in this pilot study of patients with severe vision ...
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Lottery winner in need of a kidney nearly didn't claim $14.3 million

2012-01-23T14:10:00.000-08:00

Lottery winner in need of a kidney nearly didn't claim $14.3 million:

By Scott Stump A military veteran in need of a kidney transplant had $14.3 million sitting on a table in his house and didn't know it. For three days after it was announced that the winning Megabucks ticket from the Jan. 14 drawing had been sold at a ...
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