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VCU technology can turn DNA sequencing on its head for diagnosing certain DNA mutations News Highlights: VCU technology can turn DNA sequencing on its head for diagnosing certain DNA mutations PICTURE: From left to right, postdoctoral researcher Andrey Mikheykin, Ph.D., Jason Reed, Ph.D., and postdoctoral fellow Sean Koebley, Ph.D., collaborated on the study. view more Credit: John Wallace, VCU Massey Cancer Center Physicians are increasingly using genetic signatures to diagnose diseases and determine the best care, but the use of DNA sequencing and other techniques to detect genomic rearran...

The UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program celebrates 35 years of giving the gift of life The UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program celebrates 35 years of giving the gift of life. Posted at 1:29 PM, Dec 31, 2020 and last updated 2020-12-31 15:29:28-05 1,549. That’s the number of live-saving heart transplants the UTAH (Utah Affiliated Transplant Hospitals) Cardiac Transplant Program – a unique collaborative transplant group from Intermountain Healthcare (intermountain Medical Center and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital), University of Utah Health, and the George E. Wahlen Departmen...

Thu, 12/24/2020 - 6:00pm Category:  Block Island Medical Center physical therapist Tom Hobin recently donated one of his kidneys to family member Doug Courtemanche after discovering Courtemanche was in need of an organ donation. Photo courtesy of Hobin. Tom Hobin, the physical therapist at the Block Island Medical Center, had been considering donating a kidney for quite some time to an individual in need, but had no idea that his kidney would be a match with a close family relative. “I learned from my step-daughter Alexia Pettit that her father-in-law needed a transplant. The fat...

UTAH (Utah Affiliated Transplant Hospitals) Cardiac Transplant Program – a unique collaborative transplant group This press release was orginally distributed by ReleaseWire Patients, family members, clinicians, and other caregivers, joined together Wednesday to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the nationally-leading transplant program –- and an amazing 1,549 heart transplants performed in more than three decades of saving lives for patients in Utah and throughout the Intermountain West. The UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program is one of the most successful collaborative heart transplant pro...

Himself too, because i care about him. this is my brother. you don't see the resemblance? >> i think maxi gave monigan a reason to be. a reason to get up every morning. and i think that monigan gave maxi a reason to continue living. >> maxi's best hope of survival would be a liver transplant. but that was unlikely. >> it's a complicated situation. there is some concern about the continuity of a transplant program if people find out, well, you're going to give my liver to a criminal, some people would be upset about that and so there's that legitimate concern about the appropriateness of that h...