Marrow injections help kidney transplant success
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Injecting blood or bone marrow cells into people who have just received a donated kidney can reduce the need for drugs that suppress the immune system, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Children who receive organ transplants with a non-matching blood type can grow accustomed to the foreign tissue over the long run, a study has shown.
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An injection of stem cells saved the sight of mice who would otherwise have gone blind, researchers reported this week. The study raises the prospect that some forms of human blindness might be treated with cells from a patient&#39;s own bone marrow.
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Transplanting stem cells from a healthy woman to her sister with severe rheumatoid arthritis apparently cured the disease, researchers report in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
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A new breakthrough by Chinese scientists will further push forward the success rates for transplanting human marrow and tissue organs.
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Intravenous keratinocyte growth factor indicated for use in patients with hematologic cancers who require bone-marrow transplantation.
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Even though patients are waiting longer for a kidney transplant, those who do get one live longer than those who remain on dialysis, according to data presented last
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NEW YORK  - Patients with heart failure  experienced a marked improvement after being given an injection  of their own stem cells, investigators reported today at the  Annual Meeting of the Society for Thoracic Surgery in Tampa,  Florida.
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Umbilical cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors.
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British doctors believe they have cured a boy of a rare blood disorder after transplanting cells from his baby brother.
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MUNICH -- Umbilical cord blood helped children with acute leukemia as well as the bone marrow transplants that doctors now prefer, a study indicates.
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Brazilian doctors who infused a stroke victim&#39;s brain with stem cells contained in bone marrow said on Friday they would try the treatment in others after seeing signs it may have helped the patient recover.
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Researchers have successfully tested injections of a liquid polymer to heal spinal injuries in dogs in an experiment that also offers hope for preventing human paralysis.
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The art and science of successfully harvesting an organ from one body to give new life to another turns 50 today. Since the first successful kidney transplant by Dr.
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Just under 60 percent of diabetes  patients who have received an experimental transplant of  pancreatic cells are able to live without insulin injections a  year later, Canadian and U.S. doctors reported on Tuesday.
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Korean researchers, using stem cells isolated from umbilical cord blood, succeeded in reversing the paralysis of the lower limbs caused by spinal cord injury, of a 37-year-old female patient.
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Scientists say they have found a safe way to give carbon monoxide to help organ transplant patients.