News tagged with living donor

2 people receive kidney transplants in pilot program using CMU software

A man in St. Louis and a woman in New Hampshire have received the first kidney transplants made possible through a new national program of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) that uses a Carnegie Mellon ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First kidney paired donor transplants performed

Kathy Niedzwiecki of Pelham, NH, and Ken Crowder of St. Louis are experiencing renewed life and health thanks to the generosity of two living kidney donors.

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created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New computer models successfully link donors and kidney transplant patients

New computer models can now link strangers in a life-saving chain of kidney transplants, promising to increase the number of transplants and overcome obstacles posed by logistics or donors who renege, a team of researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0