Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools RELATED Dialysis patients' care questioned Sweet root good for diabetics Why so many are getting diabetes Journal of the American Medical Association HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library Diabetes Pancreas transplants YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Diabetes Transplant Pancreas or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) Diabetics who stick with insulin injections and blood-sugar monitoring have better odds of survival than those who choose to undergo a pancreas transplant, a drastic but increasingly common option, a study suggests. Diabetes occurs when the body cannot produce or properly use insulin, a blood sugar-regulating hormone produced in the pancreas. In most caseas, a pancreas transplant can essentially cure diabetes. Patients who received pancreas-only transplants had a one-year survival rate of 97 percent and a four-year rate of 85 percent, compared with 98 percent and 92 percent of those who tried to control their diabetes by conventional means while awaiting a transplant, according to a government study in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. Many doctors reserve pancreas transplants for patients who also need a kidney transplant because of kidney failure, a common life-threatening complication of diabetes. Those patients get both organs in one operation.
Www.hon.ch/cgi-bin/HONselect?browse+E07.945 Vegetable transplantsVegetable Horticulture Homepage Publications Research Projects Vegetable transplantsLeadership in Vegetables Faculty and Staff Links. Vegetable transplants. http://www.hon.ch/cgi-bin/HONselect?browse E07.945
Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools (AP) A common genetic variation appears to reduce the risk of a serious complication after a bone marrow transplant, new research shows. RELATED Family searches for rare cells to save child HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Follow the news that matters to you. Create your own alert to be notified on topics you're interested in. Or, visit Popular Alerts for suggestions. Manage alerts What is this? People who had the gene variation were half as likely as other patients to develop severe graft-versus-host disease or die from the transplant, according to a study of 993 bone marrow recipients in Seattle. The researchers said testing for the genetic variation could help determine treatment options for patients who are considering the risky procedure and could help their doctors adjust their medication afterward. "People have assumed for a long time that genetic differences between patients will affect outcome of cancer therapy. This is clear, clinical evidence that supports that hypothesis," said one of the researchers, Dr. John A. Hansen of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington.
Boston.com / News / Nation / More AIDS Patients Get Organ Transplants More AIDS patients get organ transplants. The California Legislature respondedby giving UCSF state money to investigate transplants for HIV patients. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/02/28/more_aids_patients_get_org
Extractions: Today's Globe Politics Opinion Education ... Nation By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff, 2/28/2004 Once, it was considered a waste of a precious commodity: giving new livers, kidneys, and other organs to patients doomed by AIDS. ADVERTISEMENT But now, in one of the surest signs that the disease has been transformed from a death sentence into more of a chronic condition, select surgeons across the nation are transplanting organs into HIV patients and insurers are increasingly willing to pay. It is testament to a revolution in AIDS treatment as well as transplant medicine. HIV patients are living so long, in fact, that the greatest threat to their lives comes from failing organs, rather than the infections that proved so lethal early in the epidemic. And often, their organ failure has nothing to do with HIV, resulting instead from diabetes, hepatitis, and other illnesses. "HIV has been impacting the medical system for 25 years now, and it's not the disease it used to be," said Jeff Getty, a California AIDS patient who made medical history when he got a bone marrow transplant from a baboon. "The reality today is that you're going to live long enough so that something other than HIV is going to kill you." Still, not every surgeon or insurance company believes it's a good idea to perform transplants on HIV patients, even though about 100 have already been done. As recently as December, a judge ordered Pennsylvania's Medicaid program to pay for a new liver for an HIV-positive man.
UCSF Children's Hospital | Medical Services | Organ Transplants Organ transplants. Print Format. For more information about pediatric organtransplants, please call Pediatric Kidney Transplant, (415) 3531551. http://www.ucsfhealth.org/childrens/medical_services/organt/
Extractions: University of California, San Francisco About UCSF Quick Links... Admissions Appointments Billing Calendar Clinical Trials Clinics Conditions and Treatments Contact a Patient Contact Us Directions and Maps For Health Professionals Jobs Make A Donation Medical Dictionary Medical Tests News Patient Profiles Specialized Services UCSF Medical Center Volunteer Services Search Medical Services Adult Organ Transplants Kidney Transplant Liver Transplant Organ Transplants Print Format Children, who years ago had no hope for survival when their organs failed, now are growing up to be healthy adults with transplanted organs and tissue. At UCSF Children's Hospital, we are leaders in children's kidney and liver transplantation, attracting patients from throughout the West Coast. As pediatric specialists, we are experts at dealing with the challenges presented by the small, developing bodies of children, their difficulties communicating how they feel and their varying maturity levels. As an academic hospital, we often offer leading edge therapies and drugs. For example, our doctors pioneered anti-rejection medications and treatments that now benefit children throughout the world. Our goal is to provide your child and your family with the best treatment possible. For more information about pediatric organ transplants, please call:
Taste Of Gardening-Growing Transplants Growing transplants. Starting Plants at Home. These plants also may be seededand thinned in June at their final location. Thinning transplants. http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/tog/transplants.html
Extractions: Get a head start on your garden by planting frost-susceptible vegetables indoors. The seedlings can be transplanted into the garden when weather permits. Vegetables which take longer to grow such as tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants will be ready to harvest sooner. This will extend your harvest season. Cool-season crops such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts and broccoli will be ready to pick before the hot weather arrives. Growing your own transplants is cheaper than buying them in the store. It also allows you to grow varieties that may not be available in local stores. Check with your county Extension office for varieties recommended for Illinois. Seeds left over from last year should not be used unless they were stored properly. Garden stores carry soilless growing mixes, germinating mixes, potting soils, peat cubes and compressed pellets. These usually contain fertilizer and are free from insects, diseases and weeds. Outdoor soil often contains insects and disease. It should be sterilized before growing plants. These soils usually need fertilizer and other improvements. Combine equal parts of:
1995.02.21: Medicare Covers Lung Transplants Medicare Covers Lung transplants. A hospital will be required to perform a minimumof 10 lung transplants a year to retain its status in the Medicare program. http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/1995pres/950221.html
Extractions: This is an archive page. The links are no longer being updated. Date: Tuesday, February 21, 1995 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Anne Verano (202) 690-6145 Medicare will cover lung transplantation in hospitals with documented experience and success in performing that procedure, HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala has announced. "Medicare will help pay for lung transplants only in facilities with the demonstrated quality of services necessary for this complex procedure," Secretary Shalala said. A notice setting forth the requirements has been published in the Federal Register. Although the notice establishes a national policy for Medicare coverage of lung transplantation, the program has been paying for that procedure when approved by Medicare contractors in individual cases. The contractors health insurance companies that administer the Medicare program in every state are authorized to cover a procedure that they deem reasonable and medically necessary when a national coverage policy has not been made. Under the new rules, a hospital applying for approval as a Medicare Lung Transplant Center must present data on its lung transplants and outcomes for 10 or more patients in each of the two previous years. The hospital must document a one-year survival rate of at least 69 percent and a two-year survival rate of 62 percent for lung transplant patients.
Seed And Plant Sources For Medicinal Herbs And Botanicals GROWING VEGETABLE transplants FOR THE HOME GRADEN However, certain vegetabletransplants grow better at different temperatures (Table 1). http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/hil/hil-8104.html
Extractions: North Carolian State University The growing media chosen to grow vegetable transplants should be sterilized to prevent seedlings from being killed by the fungi that causes damping-off disease. A growing mix well suited for growing transplants can be prepared by using one part loamy garden soil, one part shredded peat moss, and one part sand. Sterilize this soil-peat-sand mix by baking it in an oven for about 1 hour at 210 F. Other types of growing media can be purchased at local garden centers or from seed and garden supply catalogs. The most widely available and relatively inexpensive seed-starting medium is vermiculite. Seedlings cannot be grown in vermiculite for very long because there are no nutrients in it. Seedlings grown in vermiculite must be given a water-soluble fertilizer regularly or transplanted to sterile soil when the second pair of true leaves form. Vermiculite is sterile when purchased. There are many containers suitable for sowing seeds. Wooden flats and plastic trays are recommended for starting a large number of seedlings in a limited work area. They save space compared to seeding directly into individual pots. Other commonly used transplant containers are pots made of compressed peat, disks of pressed peat that swell to potlike cylinders when soaked in water, and peat cubes. Some of the simplest containers for starting seed can be found right in the kitchen. Aluminum foil frozen-food trays are among the best. Drainage holes should be poked in the bottom of these trays with a knife after they have been cleaned. Cottage cheese dishes, bottom halves of milk cartons, ice cream cartons, egg cartons, and paper cups are other handy starter containers. Remember, all must have drainage holes to allow the excess water to run off. Also, prior to seeding, the containers should be clean, sturdy, and fit into the space available for growing plants in the home.
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WRTC Federally designated organ procurement organization based in Falls Church, VA and serving the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area the official link between organ and tissue donors and patients waiting for transplants. http://www.wrtc.org
Organ Transplants Organ transplants. David Heaf. I am always amazed and pain. History.Liquid tissue transplants have long been routine. A rational http://www.heaf.freeuk.com/orgtrans.htm
Extractions: Organ transplants David Heaf History Statistics I say only 'potentially' routine because transplant surgery is severely limited by shortages of organs. Recent UK annual figures for the waiting list and actual transplants of some organs are as follows: Waiting List Joined List in 1995 Transplants 1995 Kidney Heart Lung Liver Cornea The list of transplantable organs is getting longer. Organs and tissues from one donor, William Norwood, were used to help 52 other people. According to BODY , 1500-2000 people, mainly kidney patients, die each year in the UK while waiting for organs. It is these people one might wish to keep in mind when considering whether to register oneself as an organ donor and carry a donor card. (see below) Whilst the above figures show that most people are not very likely even over their whole lifetimes to encounter someone needing or having received a transplant, the issue affects everybody precisely because everybody is a potential organ donor, even nowadays the quite elderly. Meyer suggests that a strong push for more transplants comes from commercial interests.
Inova Fairfax Hospital Labor and delivery tour, information on their centers for heart transplants, women's medicine, cancer, trauma, and orthopedic medicine. Map and address. http://www.inova.com/inovapublic.srt/ifh/index.jsp
