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No reports to date of deaths of transplant recipients or dialysis patients caused by H1N1 influenza.
May 01, 2009 ... As Transplant News went to press, there had been no reports in the press that the worldwide H1N1 influenza flu outbreak had caused the deaths of any people on dialysis or of transplant recipients. Immediately following news of the swine flu outbreak and less than 24 hours after ...
Organ donation and transplantation alliance launches effort to lower number of deaths on transplant waitlist.
May 01, 2009 ... The National Breakthrough Collaborative on organ donation, created in 2003 by the Division of Transplantation (DoT) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is widely regarded as a government sponsored and administered ...
Alliance board of directors.
May 01, 2009 ... President--Dean Kappel, President/CEO, Mid-America Transplant Services; Vice President--Lori Brigham, President/CEO, Washington Regional Transplant Consortium; Secretary--Charles Mowll, Executive Vice President, Business Development and Government and Regulatory Affairs, The Joint ...
Type 1 diabetics have higher survival rate with SPK transplant but risk in higher.
May 01, 2009 ... For patients with type 1 diabetes who need a kidney transplant, a new study finds that while simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation offers a higher survival rate than other options, it also comes with higher risks than receiving a kidney only from a live donor or deceased ...
Change in Medicare reimbursement policy may impact African Americans access to dialysis services.
May 01, 2009 ... A recent change in Medicare reimbursement policy could make it more difficult for African Americans with kidney disease to access dialysis services, according to a study in the May Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Under the new policy, the Centers for Medicare & ...
Although a large number of children's hospitals in the US have developed or are developing policies regarding donation after cardiac death (DCD), there is considerable variation among policies, including the declaration of death criteria, according to a new study published in the May 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
May 01, 2009 ... Although a large number of children's hospitals in the US have developed or are developing policies regarding donation after cardiac death (DCD), there is considerable variation among policies, including the declaration of death criteria, according to a new study published in the May 13 ...
DCD professional education video available at no charge.
May 01, 2009 ... A professional education video on Donation After Cardiac Death, produced by Transplant Communications, Inc. and Elm City Communications, Inc., is available at no charge from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The ...
WHO to request member states to not allow transplant tourism.
May 01, 2009 ... The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to hold a general meeting in May to incorporate a clause in its guiding principles on organ transplantation requesting member states to perform organ transplants exclusively on its own citizens and not allow patients from outside countries to ...
American College of Surgeons issues statement on medical tourism.
May 01, 2009 ... Responding to increasing patient safety issues rising from a growing number of Americans traveling overseas to have surgery, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has issued a statement on medical and transplant tourism. The ACS Statement on Medical and Surgical Tourism "was ...
More adults with congenital heart disease seeking transplants.
May 01, 2009 ... Adults with congenital heart disease account for only about 3% of the heart transplants in the US in recent years, but that's several times as many as 15 years ago, and the clime is likely to continue, according to a new analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) data, a ...
Secretary's Advisory Committee on Transplantation to meet in November.
May 01, 2009 ... The Secretary's Advisory Committee on Transplantation (ACOT) will not meet in June as originally planned but will continue to be an active committee within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Remy Aronoff, the outgoing ACOT executive secretary, told Transplant ...
Department of Health and Human Services.(Names in the News)
May 01, 2009 ... Kathleen Sebelius was confirmed by the US Senate to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Sebelius was most recently the governor of Kansas, where she also served as state insurance commissioner. As secretary of HHS, Sebelius will oversee 66,000 ...
Food and Drug Administration.(Names in the News)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Joshua Sharfstein, MD, has been named principal deputy director and acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Sharfstein, former Health Commissioner of Baltimore, is directing the agency until Margaret Hamburg, President Obama's ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine.(Names in the News)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Elias Zerhouni, MD, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2002 to 2008 and former Johns Hopkins Medicine Executive Vice Dean, rejoined Johns Hopkins Medicine this month as a senior advisor. Edward Miller, dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, ...
The International Society for Organ Preservation (ISOP) has announced its new board members and officers for 2009.(Names in the News)
May 01, 2009 ... The International Society for Organ Preservation (ISOP) has announced its new board members and officers for 2009. The officers include : President--Jim Locke, OneLegacy, Los Angeles, CA; Vice President--Amber McAfee, LifeBank, Inc. Cleveland, OH; Secretary--Austin Womack, Tennessee Donor ...
Osiris Therapeutics completes enrollment in 2nd Prochymal Phase III trial for acute graft vs. host disease.
May 01, 2009 ... Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., Columbia, MD, announced it has successfully completed patient enrollment in its pivotal, Phase III trial evaluating Prochymal as a first-line treatment for acute graft vs. host disease (GvHD). The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial enrolled 190 patients from ...
Thoratec files a PMA with the FDA seeking Destination Therapy approval for the HeartMate II LVAS.
May 01, 2009 ... The Thoratec Corporation, Pleasanton, CA, announced it has filed a Pre-Market Approval (PMA) supplement with the FDA seeing to add the intended use of Destination Therapy (DT) for the HeartMate II left ventricular assist support system (LVAS). The device was approved for ...
Abiomed gets 510(k) clearance from FDA for its Impella 5.0 and Impella LD circulatory support devices.
May 01, 2009 ... Abiomed, Inc., Danvers, MA, announced it has received 510(k) clearance for its two new Impella circulatory support devices. The 510(k) clearances designate Impella 5.0 and Impella LD to provide circulatory support for periods of up to six hours. The devices are minimally ...
Sandoz launches generic version of CellCept.
May 01, 2009 ... Sandoz, Inc., Princeton, NJ, announced it has introduced mycophenolate mofetil capsules and tablets, generic equivalents of CellCept, in the US, an immunosuppressant used to prevent organ rejection after kidney, liver or heart transplants. According to IMS Health, US sales for ...
South Korean scientists clone pig for transplantation.
May 01, 2009 ... South Korean scientists said they have cloned a piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants, according to a report from Agence France Presse. Lead scientist Lim Gio-Bin said the piglet, born April 3, had been genetically altered to lack ...