BTS 2013 Report – Transplant tourism – a single centre experience
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Philip J Whatling, Royal Free Hospital, London. Patients who go abroad to have transplantations and return to the NHS for… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Philip J Whatling, Royal Free Hospital, London. Patients who go abroad to have transplantations and return to the NHS for… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Rajeev Desai, National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Bristol. The risk of cancer transmission via transplanted organs is very low… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by John Harris, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester. A thousand patients die every year whilst waiting for… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Declan de Freitas, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. The majority of failed renal grafts can be attributed clinically or histologically to… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Fabienne Dobbels, Leuven Hospital, Belgium. The Adherence Measurement in Stable Renal Transplant Patients Following Conversion From Prograf to Advagraf (ADMIRAD)… read more.
Foreward by Professor D M Manas (pictured) BSc, MBBCh, MMed, FCS(SA), FRCS(Edin). The burden of chronic liver disease (CLD) continues to grow worldwide and the UK is no… read more.
Researchers have found that macrophages that play a key role in the immune response – also help to both produce and eliminate the body’s red blood cells (RBCs)…. read more.
Taken from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) – by Bruce Sylvester – Deaths and liver transplants related to paracetamol overdoses have decreased significantly due to UK legislation which… read more.
A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School describe the first case of a… read more.
http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/51742.php?from=230078 Researchers have shown that transplanting stem cells derived from normal mouse blood vessels into the hearts of mice that model the pathology associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy… read more.
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a novel way to engineer key cells of the immune system so they remain resistant to infection with… read more.
A new study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC –… read more.