Latest Organ donation Stories

Five transplant recipients, including a two-year-old boy who received a liver segment, meets the family of Julio Garcia who died suddenly from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 38. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 20, 2011 Five transplant recipients, including a two-year-old boy who received a liver segment, meets the family of Julio Garcia who died suddenly from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 38. When Julio Garcia died suddenly from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 38 in March 2010, his organs...

(Ivanhoe Newswire)"”Cells found naturally in the body may help prevent the rejection of an organ transplant. Research shows new cell therapy could also eliminate a transplant patient's need for life-long medication and could help their transplant last longer.Currently patients have to take immunosuppressant drugs to prevent a new organ from being rejected after transplant. Unfortunately, these drugs also suppress the immune system leaving the patient more susceptible to tumors and...

New cell therapy to prevent organ rejection could remove the need for life-long medication and boost the longevity of a transplant for patientsResearchers at King's College London have used cells found naturally in the body, to re-educate the immune system to prevent rejection of an organ transplant while remaining capable of fighting infections and cancer.Currently, patients must take immunosuppressant drugs to prevent a new organ from being rejected after transplantation. However, these...

PITTSBURGH, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elias/Savion Advertising, an award-winning, full-service advertising and public relations agency located in Pittsburgh, Pa., is joining in the critical effort to raise awareness of the importance for organ and tissue donation across a three-state region. The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE), based in Pittsburgh and one of 58 federally designated not-for-profit organ procurement organizations (OPOs) in the United States, has chosen...

Studies of the small sea squirt may ultimately help solve the problem of rejection of organ and bone marrow transplants in humans, according to scientists at UC Santa Barbara.An average of 20 registered patients die every day waiting for transplants, due to the shortage of matching donor organs. More than 110,000 people are currently waiting for organ transplants in the U.S. alone. Currently, only one in 20,000 donors are a match for a patient waiting for a transplant.These grim statistics...

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090226/CENSUSLOGO) SUNDAY, APRIL 17: DONATING LIFE Profile America -- Sunday, April 17th. April is a month of spring and resurgence. It's also National Donate Life month -- a time to consider organ donation to give a new lease on life to someone in need. The purpose of the observance is to encourage organ and tissue...

For the first time, scientists at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network have shown in a clinical trial that the Toronto XVIVO System can safely and effectively treat, re-assess and improve the function of high-risk donor lungs so that they can be successfully transplanted into patients. The use of this technique could significantly expand the donor organ pool and improve outcomes after transplantation.In their pioneering work, a team of researchers led by Dr. Shaf Keshavjee,...

April is National Donate Life Month. Philadelphia, PA (Vocus/PRWEB) April 06, 2011 Did you know there are currently 1,988 kids in the United States on the transplant wait list, in need of a new organ to survive? Carol O'Brien and her son, Riley, know this startling reality all too well. Riley was born with his heart on the wrong side of his body resulting in complex congenital heart disease. Riley's only chance for survival is to receive a new heart and set of lungs. Riley has been...

PITTSBURGH, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE), a federally designated not-for-profit organ procurement organization (OPO) serving Pennsylvania, West Virginia and parts of New York, and Gift of Life Donor Program, one of the oldest and largest OPOs in the nation serving the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware, will participate in a news conference event at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 6, 2011 in the East Wing Rotunda...

Scientists are growing human hearts in laboratories with the help of stem cells, giving hope to millions of cardiac patients around the world. Researchers at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis believe the lab-developed organs could start beating in a matter of weeks. It's a huge step towards the first "˜grow-your-own' heart, and could lead the way into producing other organs such as livers, lungs and kidneys. The researchers created the organs by removing muscle cells from donor...