#Organ transplantation

Author: WKYT / Source: wkyt.com BALTIMORE, MD (WJZ/CNN) – A new application of drone technology could end up saving countless lives The University of Maryland School of Medicine teamed up with the engineering school to successfully deliver a kidney to surgeons using a drone. From West

Author: Aimee Cunningham / Source: Science News For only the second time in recorded medical history, a man’s HIV infection has gone into remission. The patient — positive for the virus that causes AIDS since 2003 — had received a blood stem cell transplant in 2016 as treatment for Hodgkin’s

Source: Good News Network This “game-changing” new medical procedure is expected to save thousands of people with its promise to halve the amount of patients on liver transplant lists waiting for a reprieve. The procedure, which was approved for use in the UK this week, uses a perfusion machine

Author: Dave Davies / Source: NPR.org When Joshua Mezrich was a medical student on the first day of surgical rotation, he was called into the operating room to witness a kidney transplant. What he saw that day changed him. After the donor kidney came out of ice and the clamps on it were

Source: Good News Network A research team has succeeded in making bioengineered lungs and transplanting them into adult pigs with no medical complications. The project was carried out by Joan Nichols and Joaquin Cortiella from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, who, in 2014,