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Protecting The Immuno-Compromised Against COVID Could Be Key To Ending The Pandemic

Jun 28, 2021
Vaccines may not be as effective for those who are immuno-compromised. Protecting them needs to be made a top priority, says researchers — to keep them safe and to slow the emergence of variants.
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Giving people with organ transplants a third dose of the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 appears to boost their immunity, according to a new study.

A 3rd Dose Of COVID Vaccines May Boost Immunity For Transplant Recipients

Jun 15, 2021
The COVID vaccines haven't proved very effective for people living with organ transplants. But getting a third dose of the mRNA vaccines gave a big bump in antibody levels in a new study.
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Even after full vaccination against COVID-19, people who have had organ transplants are urged by their doctors to keep wearing masks and taking extra precautions. Research shows the strong drugs they must take to prevent organ rejection can significantly

Vaccination Against COVID 'Does Not Mean Immunity' For People With Organ Transplants

May 07, 2021
For most people, COVID-19 vaccines promise a return to something akin to normal life. But for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have a transplanted organ, it's a different story.
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Using fluorescent antibody-based stains and advanced microscopy, researchers are able to visualize cells of different species origins in an early stage chimeric embryo. The red color indicates the cells of human origin.

Scientists Create Early Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey

Apr 15, 2021
An international team has put human cells into monkey embryos in hopes of finding new ways to produce organs for transplantation. But some ethicists still worry about how such research could go wrong.
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Organ Donation Nonprofits Face New Scrutiny Under Trump Administration Rules

Dec 29, 2020
Health officials are changing how they assess the regional nonprofits that find organs to transplant. The goal is to understand, and eventually fix, the geographic disparities in organ availability.
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Tom and Dana Saputo sit in their backyard with their three dogs. Tom Saputo's double-lung transplant was fully covered by insurance, but he was responsible for an $11,524.79 portion of the charge for an air ambulance ride.

The Air Ambulance Billed More Than The Lung Transplant Surgeon

Nov 06, 2019
After Tom Saputo underwent a double-lung transplant in 2018, he was stunned by the more than $11,000 bill for his share of a 27-mile air ambulance ride from one hospital to another.
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Himanshu Patel lives in Waycross, Ga. He worries that the new system will make it harder for him to get a transplant.

Searching For A Fairer Way To Distribute Donor Livers

Sep 26, 2017
The nation's organ transplant network is considering changing how livers are distributed. The goal is to make the system fairer, but critics worry patients in poorer rural areas could lose out.
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Dr. Vanessa Grubbs was a primary care doctor when she met Robert Phillips. She says seeing how difficult life can be for people with chronic kidney disease was part of what led her to further specialize in nephrology.

'Interlaced Fingers' Traces Roots Of Racial Disparity In Kidney Transplants

Jun 24, 2017
When Dr. Vanessa Grubbs fell in love with a man whose kidneys were failing, he'd been waiting for a transplant for years. Her book explores the ways racial inequity is embedded in the system.
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A 1-year-old chimera generated by injecting rat pluripotent stem cells into a mouse blastocyst. Brown in the coat indicates the rat contribution.

Controversial Research On Creation Of Human-Animal Embryos Published

Jan 26, 2017
Results from two sets of experiments provide encouragement to researchers working on "chimera" embryos that may someday be used to grow organs for transplantation into people.
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A chronic shortage of donor hearts places doctors in an ethical dilemma.

Should Doctors Game The Transplant Wait List To Help Their Patients?

Jul 24, 2016
A cardiologist knows how to game the system to get his patients bumped up the list for a heart transplant by giving them care they don't need. Is that being a good doctor — or a moral failure?
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Dr. Rebecca Flyckt of the Cleveland Clinic was a member of the surgical team that gave McFarland a transplanted uterus. Having to remove the organ was "incredibly disappointing," Flyckt says, but she adds that the team learned valuable lessons.

A Transplanted Uterus Offers Hope, But Procedure Stirs Debate

Jun 01, 2016

At least one U.S. hospital is attempting uterine transplants for women born without a uterus, or who've lost it to disease. The surgery has yielded births in other nations, but poses real risks, too.

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Pablo Ross of the University of California, Davis inserts human stem cells into a pig embryo as part of experiments to create chimeric embryos.

In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human

May 18, 2016
Researchers experimenting with chimeric embryos say they could develop into adult pigs, sheep or cows with human organs that one day might be suitable for transplantation in people.
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Image of a mini-kidney formed in a dish from human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Scientists Grow Primitive Human Kidneys In A Dish

Oct 07, 2015
Scientists have tried for years to grow artificial kidneys in the lab. They've gotten a bit closer by using stem cells to create an "organoid" much like a fetal kidney. But it's missing key parts.
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Jenny, who is 10 years older than Kevin, broke off an engagement and left her job so she could move with him to Maryland.

The Hard Work Of Waiting For A Hand Transplant

Jun 09, 2015
Kevin Lopez was born missing the fingers on his right hand. Now 20, Lopez has been on a waiting list for a hand transplant since turning 18.
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