Man Lives Without Pulse

Man Lives Without Pulse: A vast majority, 70-percent of the patients involved were just buying time until a heart transplant. The other 30-percent includes patients receiving 'destination therapy', in which the L-VAD goes in presumably for as long as the person's alive.
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Transplant Golf Classic - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Transplant Golf Classic - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA: Come join us for the Transplant Golf Classic on Monday, July 9th at the Weston Golf Club in support of the Mass General Transplant Center.
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First U.S. patient to get stem cell trachea transplant dies

First U.S. patient to get stem cell trachea transplant dies: "Christopher was a recipient and strong advocate of stem cell therapy," Lyles' family said in a prepared statement. "We do not want his journey to be in vain. We hope his bravery will pave the way for further research and development and acceptance of ...
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VIDEO: Marijuana patient booted from liver transplant program

VIDEO: Marijuana patient booted from liver transplant program: By Scot Kersgaard Norman Smith is a cancer patient at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and was on the hospital's liver-transplant short list. Then his oncologist prescribed medical marijuana to him for pain management, which he began using, ...
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Erik Compton, twice a heart-transplant recipient, keeps his game in ...

Erik Compton, twice a heart-transplant recipient, keeps his game in ...:

That would excite most any PGA Tour rookie, let alone a man who has endured two heart transplants. And afterward, Compton made it clear that he knows his story - and his work promoting organ donations - remains bigger than a ball disappearing into a ... See all stories on this topic »

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Stem Cells May Hold Promise for Severe Heart Disease - Scripps ...

Stem Cells May Hold Promise for Severe Heart Disease - Scripps ...: Unlike other cells, only these immature stem cells have the ability to divide and become another highly specialized cell or tissue such as bone, blood, or heart. This unique ability of stem cells has been the source of intense research for many ...
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Texas Medical Board to review rules on adult stem-cell therapy

Texas Medical Board to review rules on adult stem-cell therapy:

Perry, who has repeatedly and vocally opposed research into embryonic stem cells on moral and religious grounds, has no such qualms with adult stem cells -- particularly when they could mean big business for Texas. During his 2009 State of the State ... See all stories on this topic »

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Younger Heart Transplant Patients Live Longer

Younger Heart Transplant Patients Live Longer: Dr. Arman Kilic, a surgical resident at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and leader of the study, noted that up to 2500 heart transplants are performed each year in the US, and many patients die still waiting for an organ. Doctors must wisely allocate scarce ...
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Regenerative Medicine Back on Fast Track

Regenerative Medicine Back on Fast Track: Topics include improvements in cord blood expansion, surprising new ways to harvest stem cells, progress in engraftment and vascularization of stem cells for heart patients, and groundbreaking research using embryonic stem cells to restore sight in ...
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When Doctors Don't Tell the Truth

When Doctors Don't Tell the Truth:

By PAULINE W. CHEN, MD Every spring, a former patient and his elderly parents would drive two hours to the hospital carrying chocolates for the staff — an epicurean celebration of the man's successful liver transplant a few years earlier. See all stories on this topic »

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Justin Bieber meets Mrs. Bieber; happy couple plays Candyland

Justin Bieber meets Mrs. Bieber; happy couple plays Candyland: Since then, the little girl — hard to resist in her TV appearances — has had "countless" surgeries, chemotherapy, a stem cell transplant and radiation, according to the Daily News of Newburyport, Mass. (The family has a home in Merrimac, Mass.) ...
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JARVIK HEART Announces FDA Conditional Approval of Trial Using the Jarvik 2000® Heart for Destination Therapy - MarketWatch

JARVIK HEART Announces FDA Conditional Approval of Trial Using the Jarvik 2000® Heart for Destination Therapy -

Feb. 27, 2012, 3:28 p.m. EST

JARVIK HEART Announces FDA Conditional Approval of Trial Using the Jarvik 2000® Heart for Destination Therapy

Device to Provide Long-term, Permanent Support for Heart Failure Patients Who are Not Eligible for Transplant

Heart-healthy 'Kathy's Cookbook' was labor of love for late cardiac patient

Heart-healthy 'Kathy's Cookbook' was labor of love for late cardiac patient:

Compelled to share what she'd learned, Brown started compiling a heart-friendly cookbook for other patients. While Brown later received a successful heart transplant, the 62-year-old died in December 2010 before she could finish the book. See all stories on this topic »

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Public opinion on stem cell research and regenerative medicine ...

Public opinion on stem cell research and regenerative medicine ...: The Public, Political Parties, and Stem-Cell ResearchArticle in the New England Journal of Medicine analysing public attitudes to embryonic stem cell research ...
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Student stories: Stem cell research || Bucknell University

Student stories: Stem cell research || Bucknell University: "I'm interested in stem cell research, so last summer I interned at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine. "Stem cells are ...
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First Single Camera, Multi-Parametric Cardiac Imaging System Uses Photometrics ...

First Single Camera, Multi-Parametric Cardiac Imaging System Uses Photometrics ...:

... the electrophysiological function of adult human stem cell-derived heart tissue. The findings were published as part of a review titled, “Optical Imaging of Voltage and Calcium in Cardiac Cells & Tissues,” in today's issue of Circulation Research. See all stories on this topic »

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New UCLA stem cell research shows promise

New UCLA stem cell research shows promise: UCLA stem cell researchers are one step closer to growing new organs (ie, hearts, livers, and kidneys) and regenerating tissue from tissues damaged by diseases such as arthritis or osteoporosis. New tissue is formed by the division of existing cells.
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CIRM Stem Cell Research Updates: Francis collins on stem cells ...

CIRM Stem Cell Research Updates: Francis collins on stem cells ...: Collins is Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and a vocal supporter of funding stem cell research. The interview covers Collins' own beginnings in science and advances over the last decade in genome sequencing as well as the ...
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Ellen Degeneres supports organ donation and Canadian content

Ellen Degeneres supports organ donation and Canadian content: ... the trip to Ellen's show in California. Helen Campbell was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis - a scarring or thickening of the lungs resulting in chest pain and shortness of breath. To raise awareness for organ donation and giving blood, ...
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Valentine's Day is National Donor Day

Valentine's Day is National Donor Day: Organ donation is the process of giving an organ, or a part of an organ, for the purpose of transplantation into another person. Transplantation gives hope to thousands of people with organs that have quit working or don't work as well, and provides ...
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Child with painful skin disorder improves after stem cell transplant

Child with painful skin disorder improves after stem cell transplant: By Christina Southern Older brother Jackson Schollaert, right, donated his bone marrow to Hailey for her stem cell transplant. After the bone marrow was harvested, Jackson wheeled his IV pole into the room with Hailey so that he could hold her hand and ...
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Tom Martinez, Tom Brady's coach, need kidney transplant

Tom Martinez, Tom Brady's coach, need kidney transplant:

By Art Holliday He's in desperate need of a kidney, and if he doesn't find a compatible one, he won't live. NewsChannel 5's Art Holliday spoke with Martinez by phone. More than 90000 people in the United States are waiting for a kidney transplant. See all stories on this topic »

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Using social media for organ transplants

Using social media for organ transplants: THORNTON - The gift of another day is something many of us take for granted. That gift was something 24-year-old Ryan Malloy didn't think he was going to get. "Every night, I would pray that I would wake up the next morning," Malloy said.
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Turkey : First face transplant patient utters his first words after Operation

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. See all stories on this topic »

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Bieber's sweet tweets boost 'Be a Donor' campaign

Bieber's sweet tweets boost 'Be a Donor' campaign: By Bruce Deachman, Ottawa Citizen January 22, 2012 2:07 AM Canadian crooner Justin Bieber has answered the call to help a 20-yearold Barrhaven woman's campaign to raise awareness of organ donation. Bieber responded to a Twitter campaign started by ...
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