Latest Organ donation Stories

Female patients make up most of those who could benefitHard-to-match kidney transplant candidates who receive a treatment designed to make their bodies more accepting of incompatible organs are twice as likely to survive eight years after transplant surgery as those who stay on dialysis for years awaiting compatible organs, new Johns Hopkins research finds."The results of this study should be a game changer for health care decision makers, including insurance companies, Medicare and...

CENTENNIAL, Colo., July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AllograftPossibilities.org has rapidly grown into the premier source for straightforward information on tissue donation and transplant on the web. Although it has the same life-saving and life-enhancing benefits of organ donation, tissue donation is still lesser understood by the general public. The nonprofit AlloSource, a leading developer, processor, and distributor of bone and soft-tissue allografts for use in surgical procedures around...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new treatment for hard-to-match kidney transplant patients is providing dramatic survival benefits. According to the study, hard-to-match transplant candidates who receive a new treatment designed to make their bodies more accepting of incompatible organs are twice as likely to survive eight years after transplant surgery as those who stay on dialysis for years waiting for compatible organs.It's estimated that there is more than 20,000 hard-to-match transplant...

August 1 is the 15th Anniversary of National Minority Donor Awareness Day. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) July 26, 2011 Minority populations in the United States, particularly African-Americans, are disproportionately affected by illnesses that can lead to the need for organ, tissue or eye transplants. In Illinois, nearly 5,000 people are on the organ transplant waiting list. 40 percent of these people are African-Americans, most of whom are waiting for a donor kidney. Many of the conditions...

The first ever fully synthetic organ transplant has been performed by surgeons at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene, a 36-year-old male patient suffering from tracheal cancer received a lab-made windpipe that was grown from his own stem cells that did not use human donor tissue, scientists say.CNN reports that tracheal cancers are extremely rare, with less than 1% of all cancers.The new technique used by scientists does not need a donor;...

Four patients now have new lungs thanks to a purpose-built machine used for the first time worldwide by Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Acquired for research at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the new machine will contribute to more lung transplants in the long term.Built by a company in Lund, the machine is used to assess and treat the function of donors' lungs before transplantation. While the lungs of many donors are of good quality, some can swell on account of...

More than half of Sweden's intensive care nurses doubt that a clinical neurological examination can establish that a patient is brain dead. Intensive care nurses also perceive that this uncertainty can affect relatives when the question of organ donation is raised, is reveiled in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.End-of-life care in an intensive care unit (ICU) also includes caring for patients who are brain dead and who by their death become potential...

NEW ORLEANS, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Do you want to register to be an organ, eye and tissue donor? To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/student-video-at-the-heart-of-educating-teens-about-registering-as-donors-124357314.html Every day, a teen as young as 15-years-old is faced with this very question for the first time at the Office of Motor Vehicles while applying for his/her first driver's license. The...

NEW ORLEANS, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System and the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA) have unveiled a viral video aimed at increasing the number of organ donors in the United States. In a nod to the long-running 1970s Dr Pepper commercial "I'm a Pepper", the video is titled "I'm a Donor" and features costumed organs and real-life transplant recipients following a Pied Piper-like Donor as he travels through Audubon Park, the French Market and...

Ontarians can now become registered organ donors with the click of a mouse To view the Social Media Release, click here: http://smr.newswire.ca/en/trillium-gift-of-life-network/ontario-organ-tissue-donor-online-registration TORONTO, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - For the first time ever, Ontarians can now register as organ and tissue donors online through a new web site, BeADonor.ca. Every registered donor has the potential to save up to eight lives. Previously, Ontarians could...