A radical treatment that "rinses" organs and then implants them with patients' DNA is being hailed as a solution to the transplant crisis. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago tags radical teatment transplant rejecting organs rinses |
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The drugs were prescribed "to accelerate Mr Navarro's death in order to recover his organs." picked by misswinkle 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Police had to track him down via cell phone coordinates. picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
The Western World's dependence on flush toilets could be its environmental downfall. Toilets that use less water, such as the "squat toilet" in which one squats over a hole in the ground, are prevalent in parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, but a new historical study suggests that after decades of flushing, it will take radical innovations for the mainstream West to adopt any new system. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 15 comments edit related share plime.com |
Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., died Thursday just a few hours after her insurer, Cigna Health Care, approved a procedure it had previously described as "too experimental". They had originally agreed to a transplant but then changed their minds when the accountants felt they knew more medicine than the doctors. picked by 2manyusernames 9 months ago 13 comments edit related share plime.com |
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The success of Isabelle Dinoire's face transplant has scientists looking up - literally - and touting a new, rejection-free way of growing hair where once was bare. picked by mitzuzake 7 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
University of Manchester researchers have transformed fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells — and now plan to develop an artificial nerve that will bring damaged limbs and organs back to life. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago 4 comments edit related share science |
The experimental transplant procedure marks the first time infants have received hearts from infant donors who had been taken off life support. picked by afroMOSHI 3 weeks ago 6 comments edit related share science |
The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for 90 minutes only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago 6 comments edit related share science |
A man whose double lung transplant operation was stopped after a plane carrying his new organs crashed into Lake Michigan, killing the entire crew, has received a second set of lungs. picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
After receiving a Liver Transplant, Demi-Lee Brennan (9) was healing well, but nine months later on a check up, it was found that stem cells had migrated to her bone marrow, completely re working her Blood type and immune system. picked by muppetmaker 8 months ago 4 comments edit related share science |
With her mother desperately in need of a transplant, Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys. 0 comments edit related share scienceSo when the 21-year-old died after an asthma attack, it seemed that the tragedy would at least give Rachel Leake a chance of a healthy new life. picked by doggylives 5 months ago |
It took 18 months for her smile to come back completely, but doctors say the French woman who received the world's first partial face transplant is now doing well. Isabelle Dinoire, 40, was pictured without makeup for the first time today showing the extent of her scars. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago 8 comments edit related share plime.com |
Finding high-quality organs in a timely fashion can often be a problem. 3 comments edit related share plime.comWe are a domestic and international adoption agency where parents are free to adopt a child who is a perfect match for the transplant of one or more “non-essential” organs to be donated to one of the adopting parents or your own children. picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago |
AUSTRALIAN researchers have developed a world-first blood test that could save the lives of tens of thousands of bone marrow transplant patients across the world. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Authorities found a rental truck filled with rotting fish, cow parts and pig organs. Four University of Arizona students had rented the truck and collected the smelly cargo intending to dump it on someone’s front lawn as a prank. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
The transplant surgeon had good news: A donated liver was on the way for critically ill Maggie Catherwood. Then he asked: Would she let doctors cut off part of her new liver to share with an equally sick baby? picked by suebe 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Thousands of women lacking a functioning uterus would be interested. If a uterus transplant was carried out tomorrow, it would only be the second ever. Would it be safe? The first was in Saudi Arabia in 2000 and it failed. picked by sparky 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
...what we do is take normal stool from a normal person, make an extract of it, put it in a blender with water, take two tablespoons of that cocktail, and introduce it into the patient's body. 7 comments edit related share plime.comdonteatpoop, indeed. picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago |
He is a little boy who deserves all the hugs going. At five weeks old Andrew McAskie was on the brink of death before being given a second chance of life when he became one of the youngest heart transplant patients in the country. picked by maxriter 9 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |