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Health & Wellness News tagged with transplant

Canadian Researchers Pioneer Gene Therapy to Repair Lungs for Transplant
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, science, research, genes, lungs, transplant )

Horselove
- 24 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
In pioneering research, Canadian scientists have successfully used gene therapy to repair damaged lungs from deceased donors, making them potentially suitable for life-saving transplantation
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Lung Transplant Needed By Upstate Woman
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, leukemia, cancer, lungs, transplant, disease, illness, prevention, protection, treatment )

Dee
- 163 days ago - capitalnews9.com
When just breathing becomes a struggle, moving forward takes the right motivation. "Really the kids I can't imagine not being there for them," said Cheryl Gauger of Webster.
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Face Transplant Woman Reveals New Look - USA
Health & Wellness  (tags: usa, transplant, face, woman, shotgun, donor, rebuilding )

Chrissy
- 200 days ago - news.com.au
A US woman who had her face destroyed by a shotgun blast has fronted the media to unveil her new look after face transplant surgery. Connie Culp received a new face from a dead woman five months ago, five years after her husband, Thomas, shot her before
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French Patient Gets World's First Hands, Face Transplant - France
Health & Wellness  (tags: france, transplant, face, hands, surgery, first, man, hospital, paris )

Chrissy
- 230 days ago - abc.net.au
French surgeons have replaced the face and both hands of a man horribly disfigured by an accident, the hospital where the operation took place announced. The 30-year-old recipient, on a donor waiting list for more a year, "had scars from burns to the face
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Windpipe Transplant Breakthrough - Spain/England
Health & Wellness  (tags: spain, bristol, england, windpipe, transplant, stem cells, health, technology, good news )

Chrissy
- 369 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists in Spain have carried out the world's first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant - a windpipe - made with a patient's own stem cells. The groundbreaking technology also means for the first time tissue transplants can be carried out without
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Bone Marrow 'Cures Aids Patient' - Germany
Health & Wellness  (tags: germany, aids, hiv, patient, cure, doctors, transplant )

Chrissy
- 376 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of Aids by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to HIV. The researchers in Berlin said the man, who suffered from leukaemia and Aids, had shown no sign of either
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Medical Marijuana User Dies for Lack of Liver Transplant
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, humans, illness, hospital, corruption, medical marijuana, transplant, patient, death )

Holly
- 571 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Garon died a week after his doctor told him a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver transplant list because of his use of marijuana, although it was authorized under Washington state law.
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Transplant Joy - 21 Years on - Australia
Health & Wellness  (tags: australia, adelaide, transplant, kidney, donation, great news, joy )

Chrissy
- 639 days ago - news.com.au
IT was 21 years after their handsome son's tragic death in a car crash that Judy and Ian Baty received the news they had always longed for. On a day like any other, the couple were in the kitchen doing household chores when the phone rang.
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Hunt for 'Dr Horror' After Police Close Clinic in Kidney Swaps Raid - India
Health & Wellness  (tags: india, doctor, kidney, transplant, donors, illegal, payment )

Chrissy
- 665 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
India has launched an international hunt for a doctor accused of running an illegal clinic that duped between 500 and 600 poor labourers into selling their kidneys and then peddled them to foreign clients.
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The One-In-Six-Billion Girl
Health & Wellness  (tags: transplant, immune system, teen )


- 667 days ago - cbsnews.com
Australian Teen's Transplant Transforms Her Immune System In Never-Seen-Before Way
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Navy Doctors Report Transplant Breakthrough
Health & Wellness  (tags: transplant, research, healthcare )

Brian
- 669 days ago - defenselink.mil
Navy medical researchers have discovered a way to teach the human immune system to accept even completely mismatched transplanted organs.
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Stem Cells May Gradually Replace Antirejection Drugs For Kidney Transplant Patients
Health & Wellness  (tags: transplant, kidney, health, stem cell, anti rejection, drugs )

Chrissy
- 670 days ago - sciencedaily.com
After a transplant surgery, anti-rejection drugs for the organ recipient are a must, but with prolonged use can have serious side effects, including infections, heart disease and cancer. A team led by Joshua Miller, MD, a researcher at Northwestern
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American Generosity And The Gift Of Sight
Health & Wellness  (tags: transplant, eyes, generosity, gift, sight )


- 735 days ago - cbsnews.com
A Girl From Ghana Gets A New Eye In A Chicago Hospital
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