A Colorado kidney transplant candidate who was bumped to inactive status for failing to get a covid-19 vaccine has become the most public example of
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A new research project aims to use personalized anti-rejection medication to reduce the health risks that organ transplant patients experience following surgery. Third-year Ph.D. student
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Today on World Chagas Disease Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for comprehensive and equitable access to health care and services to everyone
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A team of Mount Sinai surgeons has performed the world’s first human tracheal transplant—an achievement that has the potential to save the lives of thousands
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Scientists at UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley and UCLA have received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to jointly launch an early phase, first-in-human clinical
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(Reuters Health) – Although the benefits of kidney transplant are similar for sickle cell patients and those with kidney failure due to other causes, a
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) has no cure. However, treatments have greatly improved in recent years. The goals of CF treatment are to: Prevent and control lung
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Shingles, medically termed Herpes zoster are caused by the same virus as chicken pox – Varicella zoster virus. They are characterized by one sided, severe
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Shingles is a medically termed herpes zoster. The name derives from the Latin term for belt. This is because Shingles generally results in a belt
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Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia (LGLL) is a rare cancer of one type of white blood cells, with less than 1000 new cases reported in the
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