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Released: 6-Apr-2023 6:00 AM EDT
Cinco maneiras pelas quais a inteligência artificial promete transformar os transplantes de órgãos
Mayo Clinic

A inteligência artificial tem o potencial de se tornar uma ferramenta valiosa para transplante e salvar mais vidas de pacientes. Estudos recentes já demonstraram o potencial do uso da inteligência artificial para analisar grandes conjuntos de dados a fim de descobrir tendências e modelos importantes.

   
Released: 6-Apr-2023 6:00 AM EDT
Cinco formas en las que la inteligencia artificial promete transformar los trasplantes de órganos
Mayo Clinic

La inteligencia artificial tiene la posibilidad de convertirse en un valioso medio para que los trasplantes salven las vidas de más pacientes. Estudios recientes ya han mostrado resultados alentadores en el uso de la inteligencia artificial para analizar grandes conjuntos de datos y descubrir tendencias y patrones importantes.

   
Released: 6-Apr-2023 6:00 AM EDT
خمس طرق واعدة سيحول بها الذكاء الاصطناعي عمليات زراعة الأعضاء
Mayo Clinic

لدى الذكاء الاصطناعي الإمكانية لأن يصبح أداة ثمينة في عمليات زراعة الأعضاء لإنقاذ المزيد من أرواح المرضى. لقد أظهرت دراسات حديثة بالفعل نتائج واعدة لاستخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي في تحليل مجموعات كبيرة من البيانات لاكتشاف أنماط واتجاهات مهمة.

   
Released: 5-Apr-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic expert: 3 advances lead to more lifesaving organ transplants
Mayo Clinic

All too often, people waiting for lifesaving organ transplants cannot get them. One of the biggest challenges is the lack of viable donated organs. Promising medical advances are opening the doors to more transplants and saving more lives, says Mauricio Villavicencio, M.D., surgical director of heart and lung transplantation at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

Newswise: The Medical Minute: Six organ donation facts knock down six myths
Released: 5-Apr-2023 8:05 AM EDT
The Medical Minute: Six organ donation facts knock down six myths
Penn State Health

More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are awaiting new organs. Many won’t live long enough to get them. The new chief of transplant at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center debunks the myths that get between donors and recipients.

Newswise: From Patient to Doctor: How a Transplant Recipient Became a Transplant Physician
Released: 3-Apr-2023 10:00 AM EDT
From Patient to Doctor: How a Transplant Recipient Became a Transplant Physician
Johns Hopkins Medicine

At age 17, Sara Kathryn Smith began an unexpected, personal health journey — a journey that would alter the course of her life and career and, ultimately, provide her a unique set of experiences to help others as a medical professional. Today, Smith serves as the medical director for pediatric liver transplantation at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. But years ago, she was a liver transplant patient herself.

Newswise: Johns Hopkins Medicine to Receive $21.4 Million to Advance Viability of Animal Organs for Transplants and Enable Human Clinical Trials
Released: 29-Mar-2023 1:00 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Medicine to Receive $21.4 Million to Advance Viability of Animal Organs for Transplants and Enable Human Clinical Trials
Johns Hopkins Medicine

As part of the worldwide effort to facilitate a research and clinical pathway toward successful xenotransplantation — the transplantation of living cells, tissues and organs from one species to another — two Johns Hopkins Medicine surgeons, Kazuhiko Yamada, M.D., Ph.D., and Andrew Cameron, M.D., Ph.D., will receive a total of $21.4 million in funding over the next two years under two sponsored research agreements with biotechnology company United Therapeutics Corporation.

   
Released: 28-Mar-2023 2:20 PM EDT
From the doctor's office to the operating room: Keep up with the latest in healthcare here
Newswise

From septic shock to sticker shock. Keep up with this ever-growing, changing sector. Below are some of the latest stories on healthcare on Newswise.

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Newswise: Tiny nanoparticle could have big impact on patients receiving corneal transplants
Released: 24-Mar-2023 3:25 PM EDT
Tiny nanoparticle could have big impact on patients receiving corneal transplants
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Corneal transplants can be the last step to returning clear vision to many patients suffering from eye disease. Each year, approximately 80,000 corneal transplantations take place in the U.S. Worldwide, more than 184,000 corneal transplantation surgeries are performed annually.

   
Released: 22-Mar-2023 5:35 PM EDT
American Society of Nephrology Statement on Health Resources and Services Administration Initiative to Modernize Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) welcomes the significant changes to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)—a sweeping “OPTN Modernization Initiative”—announced today by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Carole Johnson.

Released: 21-Mar-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Five ways AI promises to transform organ transplants
Mayo Clinic

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to become a valuable tool for transplant to save more patients' lives. Recent studies have already shown promise in using AI to analyze large sets of data to discover important trends and patterns.

Released: 20-Mar-2023 9:00 AM EDT
Antibiotic resistance is an increasing problem. Learn all about it in the Drug Resistance channel.
Newswise

Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridioides difficile, Candida auris, Drug-resistant Shigella. These bacteria not only have difficult names to pronounce, but they are also difficult to fight off. These bacteria may infect humans and animals, and the infections they cause are harder to treat than those caused by non-resistant bacteria. Antimicrobial resistance is an urgent global public health threat.

     
Released: 17-Mar-2023 2:15 PM EDT
American Society of Nephrology Statement on the United Network for Organ Sharing Clarifying Promise to Living Donors
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is grateful that the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has responded to urgent requests from living donors, patients, their families, and ASN, to commit to honoring promises to living donors in its forthcoming new kidney allocation system.

Newswise: UK HealthCare’s Transplant Center celebrates 500th lung transplant
Released: 14-Mar-2023 10:05 AM EDT
UK HealthCare’s Transplant Center celebrates 500th lung transplant
University of Kentucky

The lung transplant team at UK HealthCare’s Transplant Center recently celebrated a major milestone, performing the 500th lung transplant since the lung transplant program was founded in 1991.“This is an impressive milestone, and our whole staff — physicians, surgeons, nurse practitioners, nurse coordinators, pharmacists, nutritionists, social workers, therapists and support staff — should be very proud of their success,” said Sravanthi Nandavaram, M.

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Released: 13-Mar-2023 3:25 PM EDT
Being a Blessing: Cedars-Sinai Rabbi Donates Kidney
Cedars-Sinai

As director of the Spiritual Care Department and senior rabbi at Cedars-Sinai, Rabbi Jason Weiner, PhD, has always had a special place in his heart for organ donors and their families.

Released: 1-Mar-2023 4:05 PM EST
Three Penn Medicine Faculty Members Named Hastings Center Fellows
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Three faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been named 2023 Hastings Center Fellows. Emily Largent, PhD, RN, Peter Reese, MD, PhD, and Dominic Sisti, PhD, are among 12 new Fellows joining an elected group of over 200.

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Released: 1-Mar-2023 11:05 AM EST
Three Kidney Transplants, Weight Gain and a Journey Back to Wellness
Cedars-Sinai

Rowena Roque, 46, was having a problem that many people can relate to: doing everything in her power to lose weight and get healthy but never succeeding.

Newswise: February Research Highlights
Released: 28-Feb-2023 1:55 PM EST
February Research Highlights
Cedars-Sinai

Learn about the latest research breakthroughs and faculty updates at Cedars-Sinai for February 2023.

Newswise: Mercy Medical Center in Conjunction with University of Maryland Medical Center Assists Patients in the Liver Transplant Process
Released: 28-Feb-2023 10:05 AM EST
Mercy Medical Center in Conjunction with University of Maryland Medical Center Assists Patients in the Liver Transplant Process
Mercy Medical Center

The Center for Liver and Hepatobiliary Diseases at Mercy in conjunction with the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) assists patients through the liver transplant process.

Newswise: After a liver transplant changed his life, UTSW postdoc is inspired to help others
Released: 22-Feb-2023 4:45 PM EST
After a liver transplant changed his life, UTSW postdoc is inspired to help others
UT Southwestern Medical Center

As a child in Beirut, Ahmad Anouti, M.D., endured dozens of medical procedures, hundreds of medications, and numerous setbacks before a liver transplant at age 16 saved his life. Today, Dr. Anouti is a postdoctoral research fellow at UT Southwestern Medical Center specializing in hepatology.

Newswise:Video Embedded today-s-pediatric-heart-transplantations-involve-sicker-children-but-have-better-outcomes
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Released: 22-Feb-2023 11:00 AM EST
Today’s Pediatric Heart Transplantations Involve Sicker Children, but Have Better Outcomes
American College of Surgeons (ACS)

A study of 323 pediatric heart transplants over 36 years at the University of Florida found that in recent years, more infants with serious congenital heart disease were offered heart transplants, but they had improved outcomes compared to patients in previous decades.

Newswise: Bridging a Neonate With a Single Ventricle to Heart Transplant
Released: 21-Feb-2023 2:05 PM EST
Bridging a Neonate With a Single Ventricle to Heart Transplant
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

In a rare and high-risk procedure, a 1-month-old baby became the first patient with single-ventricle heart disease to receive a ventricular assist device (VAD) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Released: 21-Feb-2023 2:05 PM EST
A New Catalyst For Recycling Plastic, New Antioxidants Found In Meat, And Other Chemical Research News
Newswise

Below are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Chemistry news channel on Newswise.

Newswise: Media Advisory: Patients and Families Will Share Children’s Center Stories During Mix 106.5’s 34th Annual Radiothon
Released: 20-Feb-2023 9:00 AM EST
Media Advisory: Patients and Families Will Share Children’s Center Stories During Mix 106.5’s 34th Annual Radiothon
Johns Hopkins Medicine

What: Mix 106.5’s 34th Annual Radiothon benefiting Johns Hopkins Children’s Center kicks off this week on Thursday, Feb. 23, and runs through Friday, Feb. 24. It is the Children’s Center’s largest fundraising event of the year, and airs on the Baltimore radio station throughout the two days.

Newswise: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Leads Nation in Liver Transplants Performed at Pediatric Center
Released: 17-Feb-2023 8:05 AM EST
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Leads Nation in Liver Transplants Performed at Pediatric Center
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Living donation and significantly lower wait times helped the program to perform 35 liver transplants in 2022. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles leads the nation in liver transplants performed at a pediatric center, according to new data released from the Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network (OPTN), which oversees organ transplants in the U.

Newswise: Renowned Cardiologist Honored for Medical Contributions in Heart Transplantation
Released: 15-Feb-2023 11:05 AM EST
Renowned Cardiologist Honored for Medical Contributions in Heart Transplantation
Cedars-Sinai

Internationally recognized cardiologist in heart transplantation Jon Kobashigawa, MD, director of Advanced Heart Disease and the Heart Transplant Program in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, and chief medical officer of the California Heart Center Foundation, an affiliate of Cedars-Sinai, has been selected to receive the highly coveted 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT).

Newswise: Smidt Heart Institute at 5: Breakthroughs in Research, Patient Care
Released: 14-Feb-2023 2:15 PM EST
Smidt Heart Institute at 5: Breakthroughs in Research, Patient Care
Cedars-Sinai

Marking the five-year anniversary of the $50 million gift that named the Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai is highlighting major research breakthroughs and clinical innovations pioneered by one of the nation’s leading destinations for cardiac care.

Released: 13-Feb-2023 12:25 PM EST
UChicago Medicine celebrates 2022 transplant milestones
University of Chicago Medical Center

The University of Chicago Medicine liver transplant teams performed their 2,000th liver transplant in 2022, a milestone figure for the South Side academic medical center.

Released: 13-Feb-2023 11:40 AM EST
Organ Transplants Reached Record Levels at Cleveland Clinic in 2022
Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic performed 1,050 transplants in 2022, including heart, kidney, liver, intestine and lung transplants, as well as living donor transplantation for kidney and liver. That is up 1% from the number of transplants performed at Cleveland Clinic in 2021.

7-Feb-2023 10:05 AM EST
Donor hearts can be reprogrammed with medication for longer storage, improved transplant outcomes
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Researchers have uncovered a way to reprogram donor hearts using medication to boost the production of a beneficial enzyme that both increases the amount of time they can be stored and transported, as well as improves their function after they are transplanted. The medication, previously used to treat seizures, neutralized the cumulative stress in both human and pig hearts by instructing the donor heart to produce antioxidants and anti-inflammatory proteins while preserved on ice.

Newswise: Hackensack University Medical Center Is First in the United States to Evaluate Kidney Assist Technology to Preserve Health of Donor Kidneys
Released: 6-Feb-2023 2:55 PM EST
Hackensack University Medical Center Is First in the United States to Evaluate Kidney Assist Technology to Preserve Health of Donor Kidneys
Hackensack Meridian Health

Transplant experts at Hackensack University Medical Center were the first in the country to evaluate an innovative approach to keeping a donated kidney warm, functioning, and supplied with nutrients outside of the body prior to transplant.

Released: 6-Feb-2023 12:25 PM EST
Families of facial transplant donors – What do they go through?
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

At a time of devastating grief, family members of facial transplant donors face a range of difficult challenges – from the unexpected donation request, to unique issues related to the donor's identity, to an onslaught of media attention, reports a study in The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. The journal, under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Mutaz B. Habal, MD, is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Released: 2-Feb-2023 3:00 PM EST
CMU Research Supported by PSC Wins Artificial Intelligence Award
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Tuomas Sandholm’s work since 2010 to improve the fairness and effectiveness of organ donations using PSC supercomputers has won the 2023 AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity.

Newswise: January Research Highlights
Released: 31-Jan-2023 12:00 PM EST
January Research Highlights
Cedars-Sinai

A roundup of the latest medical discoveries and faculty news at Cedars-Sinai.

Released: 31-Jan-2023 11:05 AM EST
ARVO Foundation Announces 2022 Point of View Award Winner
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

Rockville, Md.—The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) congratulates Tasneem Khatib DM, FRCOphth—recipient of the 2022 Point of View Award. Established by the Point of View Foundation (Fundació Punt de Vista), the award provides a $20,000 cash prize in recognition of an outstanding scholarly article related to efforts to restore vision through regenerative ophthalmology, biotechnology, whole eye transplantation or other approaches.

Released: 26-Jan-2023 4:25 PM EST
Disparities in Kidney Transplant Access Can Be Reduced Through a Multilevel Quality Improvement Effort
American College of Surgeons (ACS)

An academic medical center in Charleston, South Carolina, was able to significantly improve access to kidney transplants for African Americans by streamlining and standardizing the evaluation process, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Newswise: Myeloma Research Institute Sheds New Light on Therapy-Related Myeloid Cancers
Released: 25-Jan-2023 2:05 PM EST
Myeloma Research Institute Sheds New Light on Therapy-Related Myeloid Cancers
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have illuminated how treatments for multiple myeloma and other aggressive blood cancers can lead to future malignancies, called therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (tMNs).

Newswise: Stories With Heart: Tipsheet From Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai
Released: 24-Jan-2023 1:30 PM EST
Stories With Heart: Tipsheet From Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai
Cedars-Sinai

Cardiologists and surgeons from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai are available for interviews during Heart Month on an array of cardio-related topics.

Released: 23-Jan-2023 2:05 PM EST
CHOP Researchers Develop Tool that Reduces Errors in Stem Cell Transplant Reporting
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a custom-built application to automate determination of engraftment, a key outcome after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). The application supersedes a tedious manual process and at the same time substantially improves accuracy of reported hematopoietic cell transplant engraftments.

Newswise: Hitting Stem Cell and CAR T Targets
Released: 17-Jan-2023 12:00 PM EST
Hitting Stem Cell and CAR T Targets
Cedars-Sinai

The Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer was recently recognized with two important hallmarks of quality: official accreditation for CAR T-cell therapy, and a third year in a row ranking among the top adult bone marrow transplant programs in the U.S.

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Released: 12-Jan-2023 7:20 PM EST
Triple-drug therapy for post-transplant management of multiple myeloma
University of Chicago Medical Center

Promising results from an ongoing clinical trial a three-drug treatment may improve survival in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who have undergone preliminary treatment followed by a stem cell transplant.

Released: 12-Jan-2023 5:40 PM EST
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 59th Annual Meeting - January 20-23, San Diego
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Credentialed press representatives are invited to attend The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 59th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, which will include late-breaking scientific research, thought-provoking lectures, cutting-edge technologies, and innovative cardiothoracic surgery products.

   
Released: 11-Jan-2023 9:50 AM EST
Medicare policy change could increase inequity in heart transplant access, study finds
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

A change to Medicare policy surrounding heart transplant may lead to increased inequities in access to transplant for patients with heart failure, a new study finds. Results reveal that patients receiving Left Ventricular Assist Devices at transplant-capable centers had 79% higher odds to receive a bridge-to-transplant designation than patients treated at LVAD-only centers.

Newswise: Analysis: A Longer View on COVID-19 Antibodies
Released: 10-Jan-2023 3:00 PM EST
Analysis: A Longer View on COVID-19 Antibodies
Cedars-Sinai

A new analysis by Cedars-Sinai investigators is furthering the scientific community’s understanding of COVID-19 immunity by showing that similar levels of COVID-19 antibodies are reached over an extended period of time in different population groups.

Released: 6-Jan-2023 1:15 PM EST
Scars mended using transplanted hair follicles
Imperial College London

In a new study involving three volunteers, skin scars began to behave more like uninjured skin after they were treated with hair follicle transplants.

Released: 5-Jan-2023 10:15 AM EST
New Method of Donor-Lung Distribution Expected to Decrease Deaths Among Those on Transplant Waiting List
Cleveland Clinic

A new method of donor-lung distribution is projected to decrease the number of candidate deaths who are on the waitlist for lung transplant, according to a study by Cleveland Clinic and the U.S. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) published in The American Journal of Transplantation.

Newswise: Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center Welcomes New Faculty
Released: 5-Jan-2023 10:05 AM EST
Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center Welcomes New Faculty
Cedars-Sinai

Peter Heeger, MD, Justin Steggerda, MD, Hirsh Trivedi, MD, and Lorenzo Zaffiri, MD, PhD, have all recently joined the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center.



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