Combo HIV therapy may make transplants viable. (Safety, Efficacy Trial Underway).
Organ transplants are becoming an option for patients infected with HIV. Until recently, infection with HIV was widely considered an absolute contraindication for organ transplantation, but change came with the advent of potent, combination antiretroviral therapy. "In 1997, the American Society of Transplant Physicians and...

Tradeoff System Expedites Wait for Kidney Transplants.
WASHINGTON - A novel program at New England Medical Center in Boston is drawing ethical, and legal scrutiny as possibly introducing, a new form of preferential treatment into the organ donor system. When a friend or relative of a person on the transplant waiting list is a...

MTF Responds to RTI Litigation.
EDISON, N.J., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF), the nation's largest tissue bank, today defended statements made in a recent marketing campaign aimed at educating physicians about human tissue for transplant. Legal notification was made on June 15 that MTF, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,...

Organ transplants an option for HIV patients. (Liver, Renal Failure).
Organ transplants are becoming an option for patients infected with HIV. Until recently, infection with HIV was widely considered an absolute contraindication for organ transplantation, but change came with the advent of potent, combination antiretroviral therapy. "In 1997, the American Society of Transplant Physicians and...

Using a Standardized Donor Ratio to assess the performance of Organ procurement organizations. (Methods).
Organ transplantation is one of the greatest modem medical achievements. Organ transplants give new life to more than twenty thousand Americans annually (United Network for Organ Sharing 1999). However, the organ procurement and distribution system faces great challenges. More than 64,000 patients are on transplant waitlists and median waiting...

New system increases cadaveric liver transplants: waiting list time not primary factor.
WASHINGTON -- A reduction in waiting list mortality and an increase in cadaveric transplants have occurred under a revised system for allocating donor livers, Dr. Richard B. Freeman Jr. reported at the American Transplant Congress. The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD), as it's called, along with...

FG helps 2 patients who need liver and kidney transplants.
Byline: FILOMENA CAYABA MANILA (PNA) Call it divine intervention even as heretics and critics may just raise eyebrows about it. To poor patients needing critical and costly transplant surgical operations, any help can be divine intervention. This in fact was what couple Felizardo and Silvestra...

The Gift of Life Makes Valentine's Day Special; She Gives Kidney to Save His Life.
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Valentine's Day will be about more than flowers and hearts this year for one Twin Cities couple. On the day before Valentines Day, Ann Riehm and John Monroy will enter Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) together. By noon, Ann will have given...

Liver transplants succeed in many hepatitis C patients.
People with the liver-wrecking hepatitis C virus who receive liver transplants are usually considered to have poor prospects because physicians expect the disease to attack the transplant within a few years. But researchers now report that these hepatitis C patients fare about as well over the decade following the...

Stem Cell News That Isn't fit For Print.
MEDIA BIAS is alive and well and busily promoting the brave new world. I personally experienced the phenomenon recently when I participated in an educational symposium in Frankfort, Kentucky (along with Drs. David Prentice and John Hubert). Our purpose was to provide empirical and moral support for pending state...