First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Performed in Living Recipient Patient with end-stage kidney disease underwent transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital Mar 21, 2024
Alcohol-Associated Cirrhosis and Death Are on the Rise: Here's How We Can Help Reducing stigma, increasing public awareness, and policy change are key Mar 18, 2024
How Often Should Immunocompromised People Get a COVID Booster? Experts say about every 6 months, but that should be individualized Mar 18, 2024
NBA Champion, 'Survivor' Contestant Receives Heart Transplant Scot Pollard "feeling great" following surgery, his wife says Feb 23, 2024
Do Organ Transplants Cause Personality Changes? Anecdotal evidence suggests a real possibility, but more research is needed Feb 22, 2024
AGA Backs Fecal Microbiota-Based Therapies for Recurrent C. Diff But new guidelines do not recommend use in inflammatory bowel disease or irritable bowel syndrome Feb 21, 2024
Reversing Anticoagulation in Hemorrhagic Stroke; E-Cigs for Smoking Cessation Also in TTHealthWatch: an online program for long COVID Feb 17, 2024 podcast
Immunotherapy May Hold Promise for Skin Cancers After Kidney Transplant Two studies had "important differences," but can help guide clinicians Feb 13, 2024
Risk Score Proposed to Anchor Forthcoming Donor Heart Allocation Rules Current six-tier system on the outs due to excessive manipulation Feb 13, 2024
Former NBA Player, 'Survivor' Contestant Waits in Hospital for Heart Transplant But few donors can provide a match for his extra-large body Feb 09, 2024
Stigmatizing Language Common on Liver Transplant Websites Researchers searched for terms including "alcoholic," "alcoholism," and "alcohol abuse" Feb 08, 2024
Most Immunocompromised Patients Clear Omicron Infections B-cell malignancies, B-cell treatments associated with longer duration of infection Jan 30, 2024
New Federal Health Agency Sets Bold Goals Changing rural health delivery, perfecting whole eye transplants among ARPA-H's aims Jan 24, 2024
First-Ever Experiment Shows How Pigs Could One Day Help Liver Failure Patients Penn surgeons externally attached gene-edited pig liver to brain-dead human Jan 19, 2024
Donated Heart Valves Still Growing a Year After World's 1st Partial Heart Transplant Child and transplanted tissue together remain in good condition per case report Jan 02, 2024
Death by Doctor; Apple Watch Sales Rebooted; Nerve Transplanted to Paralyzed Hand Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Dec 28, 2023
Longer Letermovir Prophylaxis Reduced Risk of Cytomegalovirus Infection After HSCT Randomized study showed extending prophylaxis from 100 to 200 days was effective and safe Dec 27, 2023
Transplant Advocates Sound Alarm Over Proposed Medicare Test Coverage Policy Proposed rules would decrease early detection of organ rejection, they say Dec 06, 2023
Two-Week Prophylaxis May Prevent Hep C After Kidney Transplant Direct-acting antiviral prophylaxis worked in all 10 cases in pilot trial Dec 01, 2023
Disgraced Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini Sees New Wave of Media Attention A podcast, Netflix series, and TV adaptation examine regenerative medicine doctor's wrongdoings Nov 30, 2023
Rude Awakening on Trying to Keep Donor Hearts Usable With Common Hormone Infusions Long-standing practice of levothyroxine supplementation fails in randomized trial Nov 30, 2023
Pelosi vs Trump on ACA; Life Expectancy Rises; Legal Definition of Death Questioned Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Nov 29, 2023
Mahvash Disease Case Resolved With Liver Transplantation Rare disease should be part of the differential in the presence of massive pancreaticomegaly Nov 22, 2023
Emergency Liver Transplant Effective for Severe Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure 1-year survival reached 78% for patients who received an emergency transplant Nov 14, 2023
AKI Response Tied to Improved Survival for Patients Waiting on Liver Transplant Results highlight the importance of prompt recognition and treatment of acute kidney injury Nov 13, 2023
MASLD Predicted to Increase by 23% by Middle of the Century AASLD president: "No way we are going to be able to transplant our way out of this" Nov 12, 2023
Doctors Perform First Partial-Face, Full-Eye Transplant Stem cells injected into optic nerve, but unclear whether recipient will regain his sight Nov 09, 2023
Kidney Week Roundup: Cell Therapy Cuts Immunosuppressive Drug Use Post-Transplant Plus: bardoxolone methyl for diabetic kidney disease and spironolactone in hemodialysis patients Nov 07, 2023
Heart Injuries Suggest Reconsideration of Holding BP Meds for Surgery Pause on ACE inhibitors, ARBs yields more acute hypertension with no prevention of hypotension Nov 06, 2023
Kidney Transplant Rates Stubbornly Resist Systems Intervention in Canada Multi-pronged approach to boost living and deceased donor transplant fails in randomized trial Nov 06, 2023
Opportunistic Infections Put a Damper on Belatacept After Lung Transplant Center had to refine its use of the kidney-friendlier immunosuppression regimen Oct 11, 2023
COVID Conspiracies Return; Norovirus on the Hiking Trail; 2nd Pig Heart Transplanted Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Sep 25, 2023
Legionnaires Disease in Lung Transplant Recipients Likely From Donor Transmission via organs has not previously been reported, researchers say Sep 15, 2023
Fresh Blood Not Always the Best Blood? French study assesses red blood cell transfusions and kidney transplant outcomes Sep 14, 2023
Stem-Cell Mobilization Booster Wins FDA Approval for Multiple Myeloma Motixafortide plus filgrastim increased adequate harvest rate from 9.5% to 67.5% Sep 11, 2023
Tacrolimus After Lung Transplant Cuts Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction Calcineurin inhibitor significantly reduced CLAD rates in Scandinavian trial Sep 11, 2023
Standard Lymphoma Therapies Tied to Higher Risk for New Malignancies Increased risk for non-melanoma skin cancer, MDS, AML versus the general population Sep 09, 2023
Intensive Pretransplant Consolidation in Older AML Fails to Improve Results Newer therapies and strategies might show more promise for boosting survival Sep 07, 2023
Deciding Who Is Dead: Physician Group Issues New Statement American College of Physicians adds to debate about redefining death Sep 05, 2023
Cornea Stem Cell Transplants Helped Restore Vision After Chemical Burns Autologous transplants show early promise in first U.S. patients treated Aug 23, 2023
