March 9, 2022 — David Bennett Sr., the 57-year-old affected person with terminal coronary heart illness who turned the primary particular person to obtain a genetically modified pig coronary heart, has died. Bennett handed away Tuesday, in line with a press release from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, the place the transplant […]
Feb. 16, 2022 — This week’s information {that a} third particular person has been “cured” of HIV by way of a novel transplant of stem cells has given hope for a larger-scale method to beat again the HIV epidemic that has plagued the world for many years. But whereas this case is definitely trigger for […]
Feb. 15, 2022 — A lady has been in remission from HIV for 14 months after being handled for leukemia with transplants of grownup stem cells and umbilical wire blood. If she stays off therapy with none trace of HIV, she can be solely the third particular person on the planet – and the primary […]
Silas Prescod Norman, MD, scientific affiliate professor of nephrology and inside medication, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; medical adviser, American Kidney Fund. Dana J. Ufkes, Realtor, Seattle. Arthur Caplan, PhD, director, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Langone Medical Center and School of Medicine, New York City. Anne Paschke, spokesperson, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). […]