Every day transplantation makes the news in many places around the globe. To help you keep up on the most important and interesting of those stories, we regularly update the following news links and archive earlier stories you can still find using the link at the end of this current list (see below):

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• 4/18/13 Lab-Grown Kidney Transplanted into Rats Produces Urine
  
• 2/13/13 Stem Cells Show Promise in Extending Transplanted Kidneys' Survival Time
  
• 1/8/13 Gene Therapy Reprograms Scar Tissue in Damaged Hearts Into Healthy Heart Muscle
  
• 1/8/13 Blog post about Rose Parade float experience: The Beginning (by Amy Waterman, Ph.D.)
  
• 12/8/12 Rejected Hearts Now Viable for Transplantation After Stress Echo
  
• 11/27/12 Joseph E. Murray, Transplant Doctor and Nobel Prize Winner, Dies at 93
• 11/27/12 Organ Transplant Pioneer Talks About Risks and Rewards
  
• 11/21/12  FDA approves pump for heart failure patients awaiting heart transplant
• 11/10/12 The Future of Organ Transplants - No Waiting (Bob Aronson's blog compilation of transplant science advances - see his Nov 9th posting with several videos)
  
• 11/3/12 Doctors Make Mistakes.  Can We Talk About That? (a TED video)
  
• 10/24/12 Kidney Grafts Function Longer in Europe Than in the US
  
• 10/3/12 Old Houston Salutes an Irreverent Heart Surgeon
  
• 9/15/12 Son with CF receives living double lung transplant, one from each parent
  
• 9/9/12 Considering Death Row for Organs
  
• 9/3/12 Missing Link Discovered Between Stem Cells And Immune System
• 8/30/12 Doctors Should Wait to Treat Patients After Transplant Surgery, Study Reveals
  
• 8/29/12 What's Your Lifetime Risk of Developing Kidney Failure?
  
• 8/5/12 New Study Evaluates Quality of Life of Organ Transplant Patients and Spouses
  
• 8/4/12  UK Altruistic Kidney Story
• 7/17/12 NPR series on tissue donation (1st of 4 parts aired today: 7/17/12)
  
• 7/1/12 Canada: National organ plan aims to boost donations (to double in 5 years)
• 7/1/12 Black Market for Body Parts Spread Among Poor in Europe
  
• 6/29/12 The Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act - It May Help the Kidney Community (NKF News)
  
• 6/29/12 Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Healthcare Act
• 6/28/12 2,000 transplants and counting: UCLA's heart transplant program reaches major milestone / UCLA News
• 6/23/12 Primitive Eye, Tiny Liver Grown in Lab
• 5/30/12 Device Could Lead to More Living Kidney Donors
  
• 5/29/12 Illegal kidney trade booms as new organ is "sold every hour"
  
• 5/19/12 BBC Transplantation video (excellent inside story of donor and recipient family lives waiting, during and post transplant)
• 5/1/12 FACEBOOK launches new "organ donor" feature today, May 1st (ABC video)
  
• 4/30/12 Heart Transplants for Older Patients
  
• 4/28/12 Cheney's heart transplant sparks age debate (ABC video)
  
• 4/5/12 Engineering Organs to Solve Donor Shortage
  
• 4/5/12 Revolutionary New Kidney Transplant Procedure
  
• 3/26/12 Flash mob organizes to promote organ donation (DLA event)
  
• 2/29/12 Younger Patients More Likely to Live a Decade or Longer After Heart Transplant
  
• 2/27/12 Graft Rejection, A Result of Secondhand Smoke
  
• 2/20/12 In Israel, A New Approach to Organ Donation
  
• 2/13/12 Turkey's First Face Transplant (20th in the world)
  
• 2/8/12 New Jersey to give tax breaks to organ donors
  
• 2/8/12 Lung Regeneration May Be a Reality Soon
  
• 1/24/12 Sri Lanka donates eyes to the world
  
• 1/20/12 New liver for alcoholics? Study reopens debate
  
• 1/17/12 A lifesaving legal ruling on organ donation (compensation for bone marrow donors)
  
• 12/27/11 Helicopter Crash Kills Fla Heart Recovery Team and Pilot
  
• 12/15/11 For-profit Centers Less Likely to Suggest Kidney Transplants
  
• 12/15/11 New Transplant Technique Breathes Life Into Lungs
  
• 12/15/11 Doctors Often Don't Always Tell Patients About Organ Quality
  
• 12/5/11 Donor families lose their say after transplant system overhaul (Australia)
  
• 12/3/11 Court allows payments for bone marrow donations
  
• Racial, Gender Disparities Among Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients Alive 10 Years After Surgery
  
• NIH Study finds broad spectrum of cancer risk for organ transplant recipients in US
  
• CDC calls for improved transplant screening
  
• (video) Videos of surgical procedures (large collection)
  
• (video) Clinical Perspectives: 7-year-old girl has 6 organs removed
  
• (video) Living Donor Kidney procedure
  
• Heart Transplant Procedure (Medline Plus: this was broadcast live on the web in 2007)
  
• Concerns over new organ donor guideline overblown
  
•  Changes in controversial DCD organ donation process stirs fears
  
• Artificial Organ Regrowth - NOVA Science NOW
  
• Artificial Lung Technology (known as ambulatory artificial lungs, a bridge to transplant)
  
• Cash-for-kidneys tuition plan stirs ethics debate
  
• Kidney Transplants are Faring Better Than Previously Reported, Long Term Study Reports
  
• Female Donor Ups the Risk For Male Heart Transplantation Patients
  
• Data Suggest 70 May Be the New 60 for Heart Transplantation
• Marine Animal Study Aims to Prevent Organ Rejection
  
• Arizona Restores Funding for Some Transplants
  
• Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Yields Good Donor Lungs (need to register - free - to view site)
  
• (from 2008) Other Nations, other answers: in search of a solution to the organ shoartage
  
• Arizona Budget includes on "intent" not restored funding for transplants
  
• (video) TED: Printng a Kidney (regenerative medicine progress)
  
• (video) TEDMED Ex vivo lung transplantation presentation
  
• Are Personalized Organs in Our Future? Ex vivo lung perfusion may lead the way toward personalized
  organ repair  (a PDF download article)
  
  
• Promising Techniques for Extending the Life of an Organ Transplant Developed
• Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Renders Previously Unacceptable Lungs Usable
• Cost to Treat Heart Disease in United States Will Triple by 2030
  
• Food-Borne Bacteria Causes Potentially Fatal Heart Infection
  
• Stem Cells Show Promise in Repairing a Child's Heart
  
• Scientists Grow Human Liver Tissue to be Used for Transplantation
  
• 1/19: Arizona Gov Offers New Plan to Provide Medicaid Coverage
  
• ASTS Calls on Miss. Gov to Take Out Organ Donor Condition for Release of Two Sisters
  
• (Arizona) Double Lung Patient Gifted with $277k Donation
  
• (Arizona) Account Set UP to Provide for Transplant Patients
  
• Arizona Transplant Candidate May Have to Move to Another State (story includes video)
  
• Arizona Gov. Brewer on Transplant Cuts: Sad But Necessary
  
• A Modest Proposal on Kidney Donation
  
• Arizona Legislator Offers  Plan for Solving the Cutback Issue
  
• Indiana Infant to Get (Thymus Tissue) Transplant After Medicaid Denial
  
• Arizona Man Tells Heart Transplant Search Story
  
• Arizona: 2 now dead, 96 left waiting for death or legislative action
  
• Health Studies Cited for (Arizona) Transplant Cuts Put Under the Knife
  
• Arizona Transplant Recipients Refute Arizona Cutback Data
  
• Improving Utilization of Hard-to-Place Kidneys
  
• Medical Facts Refute Arizona Cutback Rationale
  
• Penn To Start Hand Transplants
  
• NY Times: Organ Donation: Let the Market Rule?
  
• NY Times: Arizona Cutback Affecting Transplant Patients
  
• UNOS National Kideny Swap Program Marks 1st Success
  
• Washington State Medicare Cutbacks Affecting Transplant Meds (PDF download)
  
• Arizona Cutbacks Cost Phoenix Man His Chance at Liver Transplant
  
• When Budget Cuts Are Fatal (Arizona Medicaid Issue)
  
• Arizona Cutbacks a "death sentence" to Transplant Candidates
• Beating Heart Transplants
  
• Organ Conscent Needs Thought Transplant
  
• New York Effort Aims to Increase Number of Donor Organs
• Predicting Heart Transplant Patient's Health Earlier
  
• U.S. Organ Transplant Program Caters To Hispanics
• Presumed Consent Study Cites Negative Impact on Living Donation
  
• Researchers Engineer Miniature Human Livers In The Lab
• Promising Techniques for Extending the Life of an Organ Transplant Developed
• Faster, Less-Intrusive Way Found to Identify Transplant Recipients' Organ Rejection
  
• Unique liver transplant gives hope of a life free of anti-rejection drugs
• First Commercially Available Organ Printer Released
  
• Breakthrough in heart preservation for transplant could extend out of body time to 14 hours
  
• Breakthrough in Donor Lung Preservation and Restoration Could Double Number of Lungs Available for Transplant
  
• New Device Preserves Transplant Organs
  
• UNOS Releases Statement Regarding "Black Market" Organ Arrest in New Jersey
• About That New Jersey Organ Scandal
  It’s not surprising when 80,000 Americans are waiting for kidneys
• 3-D Scaffold Of Living, Beating Heart Cells May Lead To Viable Strategies Of Transplanting Cells Into Diseased Hearts
• Donor Lungs Made To Breathe Outside Body
• New article in the FASEB Journal shows two-way exchange of molecules between donor and recipient
• CVS slashes generic drug costs, escalates price war
• AST Employee Leave & Organ Donation Program (a great set of resources for taking action!)
• Donor Lungs Made To Breathe Outside Body
  
• New article in the FASEB Journal shows two-way exchange of molecules between donor and recipient
• CVS slashes generic drug costs, escalates price war
• AST Employee Leave & Organ Donation Program ( a great set of resources for taking action!)
  
• Study Shows Steroid Therapies Following Transplant Can Be Eliminated
  
• President Bush Signs The Stephanie Tubbs-Jones Congressional Gift Of Life Medal Act Into Law
• Total artificial heart to be ready by 2011: research team
• Heart transplant baby Kaylee celebrates 21st
• Response to Presidential debate question: Call for Sacrifice simple: give blood, bone marrow, donate organs and tissues (Blog post)
• Study Shows Liver recipients at higher cancer risk
• 10/7/08: UNOS Reports Listed Patients Top 100,000 (that's patients LISTED, not registrations which would include patients who have  listed with multiple centers - those numbers change every minute - to see the real-time numbers go to UNOS.ORG)
  
• UT group uses computers, economics to make transplant more effective
• The Doctors Who Are Redefining Life and Death
• Hundreds Race to Support Organ Donation
• 3 Top Surgeons on Short List for UPMC Transplant Chief
  (Dr. Thomas Starzl replacement story)
• A super devotion to caring
  (Top nurse also helped start survivor program, donates time)

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