Mass Retraction Of More Than 400 Scientific Papers On Organ Transplantation; Organs May Have Been Unethically Obatained From Chinese Prisoners

Call Foir Retraction Of 400 Scientific Papers Amid Fears Organs Came From Chinese Prisoners by Melissa L. Davey.  February 5, 2019. 

The Frontier Of Xenotransplantation

20 Americans Die Each Day Waiting For Organs.  Can Pigs Save Them?  by Tom Clynes. The New York Times Magazine. 

The Rules Of The Doctor's Heart

The Rules Of The Doctor's Heart by Siddhartha Mukherjee.  The New York Times.  October 24, 2017.

New Source Of Transplant Organs For Patients With HIV: Others With HIV

New Source Of Transplant Organs For Patients With HIV:  Others With HIV by Rae Ellen Bichell.  NPR.  March 31, 2016. 

First U.S. Penis Transplant Planned For Wounded Troops

Penis Transplants Being Planned To Help Wounded Troops by Denise Grady.  New York Times.  December 6, 2015. 

Two Fields Know For Innovation, Transplantation and Reproductive Medicine, May Soon Combine For Uterus Transplants

Uterus Transplants May Soon Help Some Infertile Women by Denise Grady.  The New York Times.  November 12, 2015. 

3-D Printing With Soft Biological Materials Could One Day Make Heart Transplants Unnecessary

Researchers Hack Off-The-Shelf 3-D Printer Towards Rebuilding The Heart.  Carnegie Mellon University/Science Daily.  October 23, 2015. 

Artificial Heart With One Moving Part And Does Not Beat Could Revolutionize Transplants

New Bionic Heart Doesn't Beat And That's Why It Could Revolutionize Transplants by SydneyLupkin.  March 11, 2015. 

Multiple Donor Kidney Swaps Increasingly Common; 6-Way Swap In San Francisco

S. F. Hospital To Perform Rare 6-Way Kidney Transplant by Kurtis Alexander.  SF Gate.  March 4, 2015. 

Only 1 In 3 Donated Hearts Are Actually Used; Lack Of Effectiveness Data, Technology, And Lack Of Standards Cited

Donor Hearts Going To Waste Researchers Report by Steven Reinberg.  US News/HealthDay.  February 10, 2015.

Most Americans Are Not Healthy Or Financially Secure Enough To Donate A Kidney

Most In U.S. Aren't suitable Kidney Donors, Study Says by Kathleen Doheny.  Healthday.  November 14, 2014.

New Technique To Revive "Dead Hearts" For Transplants Promises Expansion Of Number Of Suitable Heart Donors

Australian Doctors Make Heart-Transplant Breakthrough by Rob Taylor.  The Wall Street Journal.  October 24, 2014

Georgia Transplant Surgeons Object To Realignment Of Transplant Regions

Transplant "fairness" at Issue For Panel, Georgians by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  June 16, 2014.

Obesity Tied To Liver Disease And Increase In Liver Transplants

Threat Grows From Liver Illness Tied To Obesity by Anahad O'Connor.  The New York Times.  June 13, 2014.

Umbilical Cord Blood Viewed With Hope As Cure For A Range of Conditions

Umbilical Cord Draws Focus From More Scientists Seeking Cures by Peter Loftus.  The Wall Street Journal.  January 6, 2013.

(1)  Umbilical blood is already used for __________________.

(2)  Disease that may be treated with cord blood include_______________.

(3)  Umbilical cords of newborns contain _____________ which can ______________.

(4)  Cord-blood transplants replenish the _____________ that are destroyed by _________________.
(5)  What are advantages of cord blood over bone marrow transplants?

(6)  More than _________ hospitals actively collect cord blood from babies with the mother's consent.

(7)  Some researchers see applications for autoimmune diseases including _____________________.

Psychological, Social, and Physiological Importance Of the Face Demonstrated in Transplant

For Victim Of Ghastly Crime, A New Face, Ad New Beginning  by Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  October 25, 2013.

The account of a woman whose face was destroyed by her estranged husband and who received a face transplant.

Case Of Georgia Teen Illustrates Issues Involved In Transplants

Anthony Stokes, Dying Georgia Teen, Denied Heart Transplant Due To Low Grades, Legal Troubles, Family Says.  Huffingtonpost.com.  August 13, 2013.

Update---Family:  Teen Placed On Heart Transplant Waiting List.  myfoxatlanta.com.  August 13, 2013.

(1) The number of organ transplants performed on Black Americans in 2012 was _______ percent of those waiting for transplants.  The comparable number for whites was _______ percent.

(2)  In Georgia, residents are allowed to seal or expunge their ________________.

(3)  Some others point to larger pattern of ____________ about young black mean as the reason ______________________.

Implantation of Bioengineered Windpipe The First For The United States

Groundbreaking Surgery For Girl Born Without Windpipe by Henry Fountain.  The New York Times.  April 30, 2013.

The windpipe was made of plastic fibers bathed in stem cells from bone marrow.

Science Fiction Comes Alive As Researchers Grow Organs In the Lab

Science Fiction Comes Alive AS Researchers Grow Organs In the Lab by Gautam Naik.  The Wall Street Journal.  March 22, 2013.

The article contains an interesting chart of six steps to growing a new heart.

Confirmed: Rabies Cause of Death In Organ Transplant Case

Rabies Death In Organ Transplant Recipient Confirmed by Staff infoZine.  Kansas City infoZine.  March 18, 2013.

At the time of the donor's death, rabies was not suspected and therefore no rabies tests were performed.  Only after the current investigation was rabies established as the cause of death of the organ donor and recipient.  The three other patients who have received organs from the infected donor are now receiving anti-rabies shots.