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List Features 100 Privately-Held Companies with Compelling Business Models, Strong, Management Teams, Investment Capital and Notable Customers Tucson, Ariz. (PRWEB) December 08, 2011 SynCardia Systems, Inc., the privately-held manufacturer of the world’s only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, has been selected by Forbes as one of “America’s Most Promising Companies.” The list features 100 privately held up-and-comers with...

Mayo Clinic in Florida is now offering kidney and pancreas transplants to HIV positive patients with advanced kidney disease and diabetes. Evidence is now solid that HIV-positive patients have the same favorable outcome in terms of patient and allograft survival as non-HIV positive organ transplant recipients, says Mary Prendergast, M.D., a kidney specialist whose focus is the care of patients who receive kidney and pancreas transplants. "With the utilization of HAART therapy to control...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3: REPLACING DAMAGED HEARTS Profile America -- Saturday, December 3rd. Two pioneering efforts to save the lives of patients with terminal heart problems occurred this month in the past. On this date in 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed by Dr....

U-M researcher finds patients would rather be on waiting list than accept an organ with higher risk of failure Liver transplantation candidates want to be involved in decisions regarding quality of the donor organ, and many are reluctant to accept organs with a higher risk of failure, according to research by U-M physicians and experts. More than 42 percent of patients would choose to remain on the waiting list rather than accept a "lower quality" liver according to the study's lead...

New research reveals that liver transplantation candidates want to be involved in decisions regarding quality of the donor organ, and many are reluctant to accept organs with a higher risk of failure. In fact, more than 42% of patients would choose to remain on the waiting list rather than accept a "lower quality" liver according to the study appearing in the December issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of...

According to post-transplant patient David Courtney, America’s present system of organ donation that relies primarily on “altruism” is failing miserably in meeting the demand for organs because the waiting list keeps increasing rapidly, now nearing 113,000 according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, the Federally contracted operator of the US Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. According to the Los Angeles Times, on average, one person that has been...

U-M researcher finds patients would rather be on waiting list than accept an organ with higher risk of failure ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Liver transplantation candidates want to be involved in decisions regarding quality of the donor organ, and many are reluctant to accept organs with a higher risk of failure, according to research by U-M physicians and experts. More than 42 percent of patients would choose to remain on the waiting list rather than...

Removing organs for transplant unless person explicitly opts out of donation before death not best way to address scarcity, raises sticky ethical questions Changing the organ donation process in this country from opt-in -- by, say, checking a box on a driver's license application -- to opt-out, which presumes someone's willingness to donate after death unless they explicitly object while alive, would not be likely to increase the donation rate in the United States, new Johns Hopkins...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – White heart transplant patients under the age of 18 are more than twice as likely as African Americans to be alive ten years later, according to this study. "It's unclear whether these racial disparities are due to biological differences or socio-economic differences that have an impact on access to care, or some combination of the two," Arman Kilic, M.D., a surgical resident at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore who is scheduled to make the AHA presentation,...

One blood donation can give up to three families more time and more memories WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross today launched a holiday promotion that shows how a blood donation can be the perfect gift that money can't buy. (Logo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090108/RedCrossLOGO</font>) "Every time you choose to donate blood, you can give someone the perfect gift - more time with his or her...