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Video: Avatar inspires scientists to plan brain transplants

Moscow - In the wake of the recent popular movie "Avatar", Russian scientists now have plans to transplant people's brains into robots.
In the Media by Anne Sewell - 4 comments

Op-Ed: 'Sorry, Mr. Undocumented Alien! No green card, no kidney.'

Oakland - Don't you hate it when illegal immigrants sneak into our country just so they can get our precious, precious internal organs?
In the Media by Bill Schmalfeldt

HIV-infected organs transplanted to 5 patients in Taiwan

Taipei - Five people are now being treated with anti-AIDS drugs after a hospital mistake resulted in them receiving organs from an HIV-infected man in Taiwan.
In the Media by Lynn Curwin - 1 comment

Mother agrees to donate womb to daughter

Eva Ottoson, a 56-year-old from Sweden, is set to become the first woman to have her womb transplanted into her own daughter.
In the Media by Christopher Bates - 1 comment

How organ donors are heroes that live on Special

Toronto - It's the hardest time for two families both waiting for doctors to walk down those long hospital corridors. For one the news will be heartbreaking and for the other the words will fill their hearts with hope.
Digital Journal Report by KJ Mullins - 2 comments

Laboratory-constructed liver offers hope for human transplants

Boston - A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston succeeded for the first time in building a transplantable liver in the laboratory with the same characteristics as the original organ.
In the Media by Igor I. Solar - 1 comment

Barcelona hospital announces successful full face transplant

A spokesperson from Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain announced a man injured in a shooting accident had received the entire facial skin and muscles - including cheekbones, nose, lips and teeth - of a donor.
In the Media by Betty Kowall - 1 comment

Latin American singer Sandro has died at age 64

In November Sando, the famous Latin America entertainer had a heart and lung transplant. By Monday the entertainer had taken a turn for the worst. Reports now say Sandro has died at age 64.
In the Media by KJ Mullins

Kidneys with Cancerous Masses Removed Used in Transplants

A team of surgeons from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have performed transplants on five patients using kidneys from which small cancerous masses had been removed.
In the Media by Chris Dade

Organ transplants can lead to later cancers

Organ transplants save lives. There can also be complications when it comes to having a new organ. The medication that stops the body from rejecting the new organ can also at times cause the body to develop cancer.
In the Media by KJ Mullins
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Barcelona confirm that their French international defender Eric Abidal is to undergo a liver transplant.
Scientists restore the sight of blind mice by transplanting light-sensitive photoreceptor cells into their eyes.
An American man who received a full-face transplant is recovering well, according to the medical team that carried out the operation.
US doctors have carried out what they say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed, by giving a man a new jaw, teeth and tongue.

A hospital in southern Turkey has performed the world's first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said.

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Transplant Blogs

New Queer Films will be showcased at the 19th annual Toronto Hot Doc's Film Festival April 26 to May 6 2012

With over 150 queer-themed film and video festivals happening around the world, Canada boasts a diverse crop of its...
Apr 18, 2012 by Michel F. Paré

Blood donation and transfusion risks

The UK NHS Blood and Transplant/HPA Epidemiology Unit has recently its seventh annual review, called "Safe supplies:...
Dec 23, 2011 in  Health by Tim Sandle

Organ Trafficking in the Middle East

Interview granted to El Pais Q. Why do Israelis buy more organs for transplantation than other nations? A. Because...
Mar 7, 2011 by Sam Vaknin

Life-saving blocked, accuses BC doctor

http://tinyurl.com/4nskjq8 Fecal transplant? If it works.......
Jan 19, 2011 in  Health by skeptikool - 4 comments

Why salmon return (or don’t return) to their home stream?

Is it adaptation or natural selection? The evolutionary biologists S. J. Gould and R. C. Lewontin (1979) proposed a...
Feb 25, 2010 by Igor I. Solar
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