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As a pastor and funeral director, Eric Barnes often comes face to face with people who are dealing with their own mortality. In recent years, however, he’s had several brushes …

Kaplan-Meier unadjusted survival estimates by gender (male and female) after onset of end-stage renal disease (A) all-cause mortality, (B) cardiovascular mortality. credit: American Heart Association Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.123.029691 A …

A West Virginia woman married the love of her life on September 28th. double lung transplant Then she meets her deceased donor's younger brother and falls in love. Jennifer Ellis, …

Pediatric donor hearts are in short supply, especially for infants and small children, because few children die in situations where organs can be donated. Matching requires consideration of several factors, …

There has never been a safer time to donate a kidney. The risk of death for people who donate kidneys has fallen by more than half over the past decade, …

a A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a large-scale experiment: They wanted to see whether financial incentives and penalties would improve care for patients …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania is the first to examine differences in lung transplant outcomes from organs retrieved from two types …

New research from scientists at the University of Cambridge has revealed promising information about regulatory T cells, a type of white blood cell that fights autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in …

Familial Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted through bone marrow transplants, researchers say in the journal March 28 stem cell report. When the research team transplanted bone marrow stem cells from …

SAN FRANCISCO – Kidney disease is increasing at an alarming rate, with many patients requiring dialysis to survive. A new UCSF study shows that dialysis doesn’t have to be a …