Doctors at Yale New Haven Hospital used a more aggressive selection process to more than quadruple the number of heart transplants performed there while maintaining positive patient outcomes, according to a new study. The findings suggest that a more inclusive approach to selecting donor hearts and transplant recipients can enable hospitals to successfully treat more […]
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Fecal transplants could bring relief to half of IBS sufferers
Controversial fecal transplants brought relief for 50% IBS sufferers – but only if their donors were extra-healthy ‘super donors’, study suggests Fecal transplants involve transferring a healthy donor’s stool sample to a patient struggling with gastrointestinal issues Some scientists believe irritable bowel syndrome, an intestinal disorder, is caused by abnormal gut bacteria Researchers transferred fecal […]
Squishing blood stem cells could facilitate harvest for transplants
Scientists at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Tech have found that modulating blood-forming stem cells’ stiffness could possibly facilitate mobilization procedures used for stem cell-based transplants. Temporary squishiness could help drive blood-forming stem cells out of the bone marrow and into the blood, but the cells need to […]