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Time
A Frenchwoman who received the world's first partial face transplant has died, 11 years after the surgery that set the stage for dozens of other transplants worldwide.
The Amiens University Hospital in northern France announced Isabelle Dinoire's death on Tuesday. It said she died in April after a long illness, but her family wanted her death kept private. She was 49.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It's either the stuff of science fiction or the stuff of horror, but either way, according to an Italian neuroscientist, the first head transplant between humans is set to take place within the next year and a half. A paper published in the June issue of Surgical Neurology International by Dr. Sergio Canavero announced that by the end of 2017, a Russian computer scientist will be the first human to have his head removed from his body and attached to a "donor body."
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Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology via Medical Xpress
Becoming a living kidney donor can be a heroic act, but it has its downsides: increased risks of health complications and occasionally, diseases that may create the need for the donor to have a kidney transplant later in life.
In recognition of these possible consequences, living kidney donors who are in need of a transplant have, since 1996, been given priority status to shorten their time on the waiting list.
But according to a recent study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, prior living donors do not always receive that priority status in a timely manner. Some had to wait for years and go through dialysis before moving to the front of the line — while some possibly never got to priority status.
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BBC News
The number of patients whose lives were saved or improved by organ transplants rose by 9 percent last year, according to Scottish government figures.
A total of 415 people received a transplant, marking what the government described as "significant progress" in encouraging organ donors.
The latest figures showed an 83 percent increase in donor numbers since 2008.
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Healio
Cancer screening recommendations for recipients of solid-organ transplants varied widely based on the transplanted organ and issuing organization, according to the results of a systematic review. Transplant recipients face a higher risk for cancer than the general population, and cancers diagnosed in this patient population often have poor prognoses. Malignancy is the leading cause of death after a solid-organ transplant.
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MedPage Today
After completing her master's degree as a nurse practitioner, Corinna Michels, ARNP, a primary care clinician in Yakima, Washington, traveled to Cali, Colombia, on a Fulbright grant to research prenatal care before entering practice.
"I knew I wanted to have a little bit more support" on her return than classmates who appeared to be floundering in their career choices, Michels told MedPage Today.
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HIT Consultant
There’s an entirely new customer in today’s patient care mix that nurses must address in their efforts to deliver a high quality patient experience. But new technology may hold the key to addressing the challenge.
A recent independent research study conducted by Amplion reveals the patient caregiver who accompanies the patient during an overnight hospital stay is far more critical in judging patient satisfaction — and the care that nurses work so hard to deliver — than hospitals might have suspected.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 In August 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — more commonly known as HIPAA — was signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton. Twenty years later, with Clinton's wife possibly on the verge of a presidency of her own, HIPAA still remains a pivotal point of policy and contention throughout the lexicon of the American healthcare system. Despite its age and divisiveness, HIPAA still matters.
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