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By KATE MASTERS, Copyright 2021, Virginia Mercury

Share In May, the Hospital Clínico performed the 33rd liver transplant surgery among adults, a procedure that has reduced the waiting lists of patients who need an organ in Chile. Without a living donor, almost 40 percent of them die before reaching the ward. Raúl Morales was twelve when he told his mother, Rosa Pino, diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis, that he would donate her liver. But no one paid much attention to him at the time because, he says, “you couldn’t either.” Rosa was part of the list of patients in Chile who wait for years for an organ from a deceased donor.

New Partnership Helps Veterans Receive Donated Kidneys iCrowd Newswire New Partnership Helps Veterans Receive Donated Kidneys Veteran from Bronx VA is first to benefit Toledo, OH - The Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD), one of the longest serving kidney matching organizations in the world, announced today that a United States military veteran received a lifesaving kidney thanks to an altruistic donor and a new partnership with Donor Outreach for Veterans, Corps. (DOVE). The two organizations believe that this unique partnership will result in saving the lives of many more US Military...

Like Her Sisters Before Her, Val Mowatt Is Dying Of Liver Disease. So Why Can’t She Get A Transplant? 'Are you going to make me do the same thing that my sisters did—sit and wait to die?' Jessica McDiarmid Updated (The sisters, from left to right: Judy, Veronica and Val) First, they lost Judy. The youngest sister in a large family from the Gitxsan Nation in northwest British Columbia, she was in her forties when she died. She was diagnosed with primary biliary cholangitis, an autoimmune disease that destroys the liver, and put on the province’s waitlist for a transplan...

 E-Mail IMAGE: From left, postdoctoral scholar Andrey Mikheykin, Ph.D., Jason Reed, Ph.D., and postdoctoral fellow Sean Koebley, Ph.D., worked together on the study. view more  Credit: John Wallace, VCU Massey Cancer Center Doctors are increasingly using genetic signatures to diagnose diseases and determine the best course of care, but using DNA sequencing and other techniques to detect genomic rearrangements remains costly or limited in capabilities. However, an innovative breakthrough developed by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and the VCU Dep...