Lung Transplant Graft Outcomes Relate Back to Donor Care Setting Longer graft survival reported for lungs from hospital-based units Jun 25, 2024
Real-World Analysis Identifies Meds Tied to Higher Risk of Liver Injury Case reports may not be as reliable, researchers say Jun 25, 2024
98-Year-Old Man Believed to Be the Oldest American Organ Donor Ever Increasingly, older adults can donate organs upon their death, according to one expert Jun 13, 2024
Rifaximin Prophylaxis Fails for Bacterial Peritonitis in Cirrhotic Patients "Is it time to say primary prophylaxis is dead?" one expert asks Jun 11, 2024
Patients With Severe ACLF on Liver Transplant Waitlists Face High Mortality Rates Urgent need for organ allocation system reform, researchers say Jun 09, 2024
A Win for Liver Transplantation in Unresectable Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Three new trials address CRC liver metastases Jun 04, 2024
Woman Is Back on Dialysis After Doctors Remove Transplanted Pig Kidney Patient was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig May 31, 2024
Changes to Liver Transplant Policy Increased Costs in Vulnerable Areas Hospital costs increased 12% in low-income areas vs 5.1% in high-income areas May 29, 2024
Monoclonal Antibody May Benefit Patients With Kidney Transplant Rejection But results were not fully durable after treatment cessation May 28, 2024
FDA Urged to Relax Tissue Donation Restrictions for Gay, Bisexual Men Advocates say policy should be based on individualized risk assessments, "not historic bias" May 28, 2024
Outcomes OK With Transplant of Previously Dialyzed Kidneys Risk for delayed graft function higher, but other endpoints no different May 23, 2024
Pig-Kidney Recipient Dies; Colon Cancers Surge in Teens; CRISPR Fails to Cure HIV Health news and commentary gathered by app staff May 13, 2024
Houston Transplant Scandal: Families of Patients Who Died Begin Legal Action Surgeon has been accused of manipulating waitlist, making his patients ineligible for new livers Apr 25, 2024
CAR-T Plus Stem-Cell Transplant Promising for CD7+ Blood Cancers "All-in-one" approach appears safe, effective, in patients with relapsed/refractory disease Apr 24, 2024
Too Ill for Typical Transplants, Woman Gets a Pig Kidney and Heart Pump Instead Surgery marks sixth human xenotransplant performed at NYU Langone Health Apr 24, 2024
Usefulness Questioned for Transplant Center Report Cards Ratings look like noise due to volatile score changes every half year Apr 11, 2024
Aspirin for Fatty Liver; Meds for Self-Managed Abortion Also in TTHealthWatch: diagnosing Parkinson's with a skin biopsy Mar 30, 2024 podcast
Is Alzheimer's Transmissible Through Bone Marrow Cells? Mouse experiment suggests it may be, but what that means for humans isn't clear Mar 29, 2024
CDC: Latest COVID Vax Cuts Hospitalization Risk in Immunocompromised People But fewer than one in five of this vulnerable group have received the updated shot Mar 28, 2024
Do Race, Sex Factor Into Who Has Donor Heart Offers Turned Down by Transplant Docs? Black people, men receive more offers before one is accepted Mar 25, 2024
New Monoclonal Authorized to Prevent COVID in Immunocompromised People No such option has been available since FDA revoked the authorization of Evusheld last year Mar 22, 2024
First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Performed in Living Recipient Patient with end-stage kidney disease underwent transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital Mar 21, 2024
Alcohol-Associated Cirrhosis and Death Are on the Rise: Here's How We Can Help Reducing stigma, increasing public awareness, and policy change are key Mar 18, 2024
How Often Should Immunocompromised People Get a COVID Booster? Experts say about every 6 months, but that should be individualized Mar 18, 2024
Trader Joe's 60,000-Pound Recall; Will Shortz's Stroke; Oregon Recriminalizing Drugs Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by app staff Mar 04, 2024
PROs for Cutaneous Chronic GVHD After Transplant Tied to Disease Severity, Mortality Baseline QOL, symptom burden could inform risk stratification, treatment decisions Feb 28, 2024
NBA Champion, 'Survivor' Contestant Receives Heart Transplant Scot Pollard "feeling great" following surgery, his wife says Feb 23, 2024
Do Organ Transplants Cause Personality Changes? Anecdotal evidence suggests a real possibility, but more research is needed Feb 22, 2024
AGA Backs Fecal Microbiota-Based Therapies for Recurrent C. Diff But new guidelines do not recommend use in inflammatory bowel disease or irritable bowel syndrome Feb 21, 2024
Reversing Anticoagulation in Hemorrhagic Stroke; E-Cigs for Smoking Cessation Also in TTHealthWatch: an online program for long COVID Feb 17, 2024 podcast
Immunotherapy May Hold Promise for Skin Cancers After Kidney Transplant Two studies had "important differences," but can help guide clinicians Feb 13, 2024
Risk Score Proposed to Anchor Forthcoming Donor Heart Allocation Rules Current six-tier system on the outs due to excessive manipulation Feb 13, 2024
Former NBA Player, 'Survivor' Contestant Waits in Hospital for Heart Transplant But few donors can provide a match for his extra-large body Feb 09, 2024
Stigmatizing Language Common on Liver Transplant Websites Researchers searched for terms including "alcoholic," "alcoholism," and "alcohol abuse" Feb 08, 2024
Most Immunocompromised Patients Clear Omicron Infections B-cell malignancies, B-cell treatments associated with longer duration of infection Jan 30, 2024
New Federal Health Agency Sets Bold Goals Changing rural health delivery, perfecting whole eye transplants among ARPA-H's aims Jan 24, 2024
First-Ever Experiment Shows How Pigs Could One Day Help Liver Failure Patients Penn surgeons externally attached gene-edited pig liver to brain-dead human Jan 19, 2024
Donated Heart Valves Still Growing a Year After World's 1st Partial Heart Transplant Child and transplanted tissue together remain in good condition per case report Jan 02, 2024
Death by Doctor; Apple Watch Sales Rebooted; Nerve Transplanted to Paralyzed Hand Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by app staff Dec 28, 2023
Longer Letermovir Prophylaxis Reduced Risk of Cytomegalovirus Infection After HSCT Randomized study showed extending prophylaxis from 100 to 200 days was effective and safe Dec 27, 2023