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Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Kidney Pre-Transplant Nurser Coordinator
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Ft. Worth, Texas
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Operating Room RN — Transplant
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Sonora, Calif.
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Staff Nurse
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Craig, Colo.
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The Associated Press via CBS News
Some patients facing a years-long wait for a kidney transplant are jumping ahead in line thanks to a startling experiment: They're agreeing to an organ almost sure to infect them with hepatitis C.
Knowingly transmitting a dangerous virus may sound drastic, but two leading transplant centers are betting the strategy will save lives — if new medications that promise to cure hepatitis C enable use of organs that today go to waste.
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By Chelsea Adams
 How a patient will fare after an organ transplant can be difficult to predict. However, researchers using a computerized algorithm found that larger transplant centers have better patient outcomes than smaller centers. The results of their study were published recently in The American Journal of Transplantation. Prior research studies have found an increased mortality rate among centers that perform fewer than 14 heart transplants or 20 lung transplants per year.
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CBS News
The "scrubs" of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses often pick up disease-causing germs, including those resistant to antibiotics, a new study reports.
"We know there are bad germs in hospitals, but we're just beginning to understand how they are spread," said study lead author Dr. Deverick Anderson, an associate professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C.
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The Indian Express
The final draft of the Standard Operating Procedure of live organ transplants has laid down stringent norms for transplants in the state, including verification of the family photos of donors and recipients, and photographs of the operating doctor to be clicked with patients just before the surgery. The SOP is set to be submitted to the advisory committee, from where it will go to Health Minister Deepak Sawant. Once the minister's nod is in, Maharashtra will become one of the few states in India to lay down strict transplant rules.
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Hurriyet Daily News
Some 30,000 patients are currently waiting for organ transplants in Turkey, with approximately 2,000 of them losing their lives each year in the process, according to statistics released from the World Health Organization.
A total of 4,552 organ transplants were made in 2015 in Turkey, the statistics also showed.
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The Huffington Post
Last August, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez performed the most extensive face transplant operation ever.
In the 26-hour operation, which took place at New York University Langone Medical Center, the dentist-turned-plastic-surgeon and his team removed the face and scalp of a young victim of a fatal accident and successfully grafted the tissue onto the head of Patrick Hardison, a firefighter who had been horribly burned in a 2001 fire.
The operation showed in dramatic fashion just how far organ transplantation has come since its start in 1954, when surgeons at Brigham Hospital in Boston took a kidney from one man and gave it to his twin.
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Health Affairs Blog
Nurses play a central role in our health care system. Key factors determining the future supply of nurses are the number who are being educated by U.S. nursing programs and the number entering the U.S. after graduating from foreign nursing programs. The number of first-time takers of the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX), a prerequisite to become licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN), provides a good metric for the number of new nurses.
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