Baltimore Sun (blog)

Catonsville girl receives transplant, but is rejecting heart Baltimore Sun (blog) If she doesn't show signs of a recovery in several days, Bartlinski said, doctors would re-evaluate the situation and likely put her back on the transplant list. In the best-case scenario, the heart's failure could have been caused by trauma from the ...

FDA backs away from new fecal transplant rules NBCNews.com (blog) FDA officials said this week that the agency will not enforce new requirements to obtain investigational new drug applications, or INDs, before doctors can perform the procedure that uses doses of donor stool to repopulate infected colons with healthy ... FDA reverses fecal transplant regulations, eases restrictions on doctors ...The Verge Fecal Transplant Procedures Require No Further Regulation; FDA Takes A Step ...Medical Daily FDA responds to provider pressure, backs off stricter control of fecal ...McKnight's Long Term Care News all 7 news articles »

Slate Magazine

The chaotic, ethically murky case of a 10-year-old girl in need of lungs. Slate Magazine Part of the rationale behind the “under 12 rule,â€� established in 2005 by the Organ Procurement Transplant Network, which is managed by UNOS, is that lungs from an adult would be too large for a child's body. (There are no age-based cutoffs for ... Pa. girl who fought for lung transplant improvingSeattle Post Intelligencer Mother of lung transplant girl gives updateTbo.com Organ scarcity's the real transplant dilemmaTheNewsTribune.com The Salinas Californian all 22 news articles »

7Online.com

Murnaghans Face Backlash After Sarah's Lung Transplant 7Online.com Sarah Murnaghan, the 10-year-old girl whose family successfully sued to make her more likely to get a pair of adult lungs, may have gotten a boost from public attention before her lung transplant last week, but now that it's over, some of that ... Lung Transplant Recovery to Be 'Hard and Long' for Sarah MurnaghanABC News Hearing on hold over lung transplant rulesUSA TODAY Murnaghans face negative comments after transplantFOX43.com The Inquisitr -Exponent-telegram -Odessa American all 122 news articles »

E. Ore. heart patient gets help, needs transplant San Francisco Chronicle She had suffered with a low-functioning heart for four years until December, when as she was already planning for a heart transplant, her heart function declined so much she needed an immediate fix to survive. Arroyo arrived at the hospital — the only ... and more »

Doctor Becomes Heart Transplant Patient At Sutter Medical Center CBS Local SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento is only one of two heart transplant programs in Northern California. And CBS13 was there Tuesday as they discharged their 155th patient. They say no man is a good doctor who has never been ...

Boston Children's Hospital To Offer Hand Transplants For Kids Huffington Post A Boston hospital is starting the world's first hand transplant program for children, and doctors say it won't be long until face transplants and other radical operations to improve appearance and quality of life are offered to kids, too. The move ...

Hahnemann temporarily suspends heart-transplant program Philly.com Hahnemann University Hospital has voluntarily inactivated its heart transplant program because, the hospital said, it lacked backup surgical care. John Entwistle 3d, who had been surgical director of Hahnemann's heart transplant program, left to became ...

After lung transplant, diabetes ups death risk Futurity: Research News "Only 30 percent of lung transplant recipients survive beyond ten years. It was thought that the effects of diabetes, which manifest in the longer term, would not be significant to the health of these patients. However, our research suggests that ... Diabetes Makes Lung Transplant RiskierMedPage Today Diabetes management key to transplant successThe Conversation all 3 news articles »

Former Philadelphia Transplant Surgeon Now A Rising Political Figure In Italy KYW Newsradio Before he left to return to Italy to run for a senate seat, the Genoa-born Marino had performed some 200 organ transplants here and rose to the position of director of Jefferson's transplant program. His successor, Dr. Doria Cataldo, says Marino's ... and more »