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Tech Times
Here's a tip: If you're an organ donor, try not to die on a weekend.
According to new findings presented at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week, perfectly good donor kidneys are being thrown into the garbage at an alarming rate when those kidneys are procured over the weekend.
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The Columbian
You can’t buy hearts, kidneys or other organs but money can still help you get one. Wealthy people are more likely to get on multiple waiting lists and score a transplant, and less likely to die while waiting for one, a new study finds.
The work confirms what many have long suspected — the rich have advantages even in a system designed to steer organs to the sickest patients and those who have waited longest.
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KERA News
Doctors in Austin are trying to urgently match five-year-old Leland with a new kidney. He’s on dialysis, and in the highest and most urgent category of patients needing a new organ.
His situation is an example of the pressing need for organ donors in Texas and across the U.S.
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By Keith Carlson
There are many types of nurse leaders within the nursing ecosystem, and leadership styles can vary widely. For nurse leaders seeking to offer a balanced style of leadership that meets a wide variety of demands, considering both the left- and right-brain aspects of leadership is one good place to focus.
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The Irish Times
Scientists are searching for promising new drugs in the most unusual of places, from the depths of the ocean floor to the contents of an infant’s nappy.
The goal is to discover substances that have a useful biological effect, for example new kinds of antibiotics, heart medicines and anti-cancer agents.
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By Scott E. Rupp
According to a new report by SoftwareAdvice, patient consumers are acutely aware of health information exchange and interoperability, and of whether their physicians are connected and able to share data freely across the healthcare spectrum to provide the best in care.
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Genetic Literacy Project
Using sugar, silicone, and a 3-D printer, bioengineers at Rice University and surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels that points toward a future of growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation.
The research may provide a method to overcome one of the biggest challenges in regenerative medicine, i.e., how to deliver oxygen and nutrients to all cells in an artificial organ or tissue implant that takes days or weeks to grow in the lab prior to surgery.
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Web MD
When people languish on a wait-list for a kidney transplant, they may start to consider a desperate measure: Traveling to a country where they can buy a donor kidney on the black market.
But beyond the legal and ethical pitfalls, experts say, the health risks are not worth it.
Most countries ban the practice, sometimes called "transplant tourism," and it has been widely condemned on ethical grounds. Now a new study highlights another issue: People who buy a donor kidney simply do not fare as well.
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Al.com
Debbie Lethgo of Stone Mountain, Ga. and Eloise Jenkins of Castleberry had two things in common when they arrived at UAB Hospital: Advanced liver disease and small build.
Because both women were small, they were good candidates for the first split-liver transplant performed in Alabama. The procedure began with two surgeons who spent more than four hours splitting the organ into two parts.
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Daily Press
In a room at the rear of LifeNet Health's main building, a maze of futuristic white corridors, a mesh laundry bag carries a label designating it as donor number 4,254 in 2015. It's filled with different-sized bags, their tissue contents — bone, tendon, left gracilis, etc — wrapped in thick plastic and all bar-coded for identification.
The bag will be stored alongside 1,100 others in a freezer set at -70 degrees Celsius. Across the corridor, technicians work in an array of 10 sterile, bright-white rooms processing tissue for transplantation from 6,000 donors annually.
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