Do kidney donors die younger? Washington Post (blog) With the chronic shortage of kidneys for transplantation, more and more people are turning to family members, friends or other living donors. ... Kidney transplants and long-term health7Online.com Kidney Donors Go On to Lead Long, Healthy LivesU.S. News & World Report Kidney Donors Don't Shorten Their Lives by Giving Up OrganBusinessWeek Medical News Today -OnMedica -CTV.ca all 23 news articles »

PatientsLikeMe, Novartis join on organ transplant online community Mass High Tech Under the partnership, Novartis will support the online forum and use its information in the company's research into organ transplantation. ... PatientsLikeMe Launching Transplant CommunityXconomy PatientsLikeMe Collaborates With Novartis to Create an Open Online Community ...MarketWatch (press release) all 10 news articles »

WTRF	Stem Cell Transplant for Aubrey Brooks Deemed Success WTRF Aubrey Brooks, 2, of Powhatan Point, is now recovering from her stem cell transplant, which doctors are saying is a success. POWHATAN POINT, Ohio -- It is ... and more »

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British "pooled" kidney transplants point to more Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Kidney transplant procedures in which three donors agreed to "pool" their organs, so a loved one could receive a compatible kidney from a ... Three-way transplant brings hopeBBC News One of a Kind “Three Way Kidney Swapâ€� Takes Place in UKTopNews United States First three-way kidney transplants carried out in BritainTelegraph.co.uk Scottish Daily Record -WebMD.Boots.com -Scotsman all 37 news articles »

A'bad docs make kidney transplant easy Times of India AHMEDABAD: A pioneering transplantation of a kidney through minimally invasive laparoscopy method was successfully completed by surgeons at the Institute of ... and more »

Ronnie Walker, 14, Can't Get A Transplant, Is 'Virtually Homeless' Huffington Post (blog) She desperately needs a lung transplant, or she'll probably die. Right now, she can't get on the organ transplant list, as it's critical that she has a ...

Skin transplant offers new hope to vitiligo patients EurekAlert (press release) In the first study of its kind in the United States, Henry Ford Hospital showed that skin transplant surgery is safe and effective for treating vitiligo. ... and more »

Facebook history: 'Friended' for life Minneapolis Star Tribune Chris Strouth needed a kidney transplant. He'd been on dialysis for months after Berger's disease (which he called "Harold") wreaked havoc on his renal ... and more »

Chimerix Initiates Phase 2 Study of CMX001 in Stem Cell Transplant Recipients ... PR Newswire (press release) However, in immunosuppressed and immunocompromised transplant recipients, CMV is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. "Morbidities and organ loss due ... and more »

Transplant nephrologist selling condo in Marconi Plaza Blockshopper Dr. Chakravarty has been a transplant nephrologist at Lourdes Organ Transplant Center. Prior to that, he was a transplant nephrology fellow at Vanderbilt ...