Patient With Artificial Heart Smashes Survival Record
The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from ...
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Become An Organ, Eye & Tissue Donor!
Midwest Transplant Network serves the state of Kansas and western Missouri in support of donation. One person can save up to 8 lives as an organ donor, and can enhance the lives of 100 people as a ...
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Donor Network West Achieves Record-Breaking Milestone: 100 Organ Donors in the First Two and a Half Months of the Year (sponsored)
In a historic achievement that underscores the growing impact of organ donation, Donor Network West reached 100 organ donors ...
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Stem cell-based CALEC therapy achieves 90% corneal surface restoration in clinical trial
The study evaluated 14 patients that were treated with cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (CALEC) and followed ...
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Stem cell therapy could heal injured corneas, restore vision
“We felt it was important to find new options for our patients that are safe to the donor and recipient eye, and effective,” Jurkunas added. “We feel the CALEC procedure fills some of these current ...
‘Irreversible’ eye damage fixed by stem cells in human trial
Researchers successfully pulled off the first eye stem cell transplants to help heal cornea damage, and the results speak for ...