Category: Transplant Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It was 1986. Nancy Gardner had just given birth to her third child when she began experiencing strange symptoms.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – My wife is African American, and we just learned that she is going to need a kidney transplant. I heard that most of the people on the waitlist are people of color….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Fifty-seven-year-old Ted Garding is Mayo Clinic’s first altruistic living liver donor. The living liver donation program allows a healthy person to donate a portion of his or her liver, which then regenerates over time.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MAYWOOD, IL – The Donor Care Network has designated Loyola University Medical Center as a Center of Excellence.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Los Angeles (February 1, 2022)  -“These increased volumes are a reflection of our teamwork, our commitment to our patients and the generosity of the organ donors and donor families,”….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The analysis of more than 3,000 lung transplants in the U.S. between Aug. 1, 2020, and Sept. 30, 2021, showed that during the pandemic, 7% of the nation’s lung transplants were performed to treat severe….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. — Cancer, infections and heart disease pose the greatest risk to kidney transplant recipients ― not organ rejection ― according to a recently published Mayo Clinic study.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola Medicine experts have concluded that COVID-19 vaccine requirements for lung transplant patients are an ethical and necessary practice.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – My kidneys are failing, and my doctor has told me that I need to have a kidney transplant. I am severely overweight, and losing weight has been extremely difficult.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In this season of celebrating and gift-giving, you could have the chance to give someone the gift of a second chance at life.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – At 34, Steven Graham has already beaten the odds. Born with a heart defect, doctors predicted that he would not live past 30.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone -first-ever milestone when surgeons replaced the lungs of a 16-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis (CF) whose organs were irreversibly damaged.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New Providence, NJ – On October 7, NJ Sharing Network is launching an online social media campaign to raise awareness and register as many organ and tissue donors as possible in celebration of Organ Donor Enrollment Day.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – People who have received organ transplants face an elevated risk of developing cancer, primarily due to immunosuppression from medications to prevent organ rejection, as well as underlying medical conditions.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Many advances have been made in diabetes treatments over the past decade. Diabetes is a lifelong chronic disease with the potential for significant complications.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – On a July afternoon, Federico Gomez Gil, 56, is dressed in a short-sleeved, collared shirt, sweatpants and a baseball cap. He sits in a chair in a hospital room, surrounded by his wife and two daughters.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – LOS ANGELES — A new study from Keck Medicine of USC reveals that Black recipients of liver transplants have lower post-transplant survival rates than white or Hispanic patients.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC — New research indicates that patients with kidney failure who receive care at for-profit dialysis facilities are less likely to be referred for kidney transplants that those receiving care at non-profit facilities.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – LOS ANGELES (May 17, 2021) — Last month, Lara Holmes celebrated two birthdays—her normal birthday, and the first birthday since she received the gift of a lifetime: a new pancreas and kidney.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers show that although two doses of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID 19….