Your reading posts about, "Transplantation"

Bone marrow donations could become profitable as a result of lawsuit

November 16, 2009 by Baby Chums  
Filed under Baby Health, News

Current US law bans bone marrow donors to profit. However, a lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice challenges this prohibition as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause.
Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) involves taking a healthy sample of stem cells from bone marrow belonging to a healthy donor. This is then injected into [...]

Womb transplants may become a reality in as little as 2 years

October 22, 2009 by Shawn Douglas  
Filed under News, Pregnancy

Womb transplants could potentially help women who were born without a womb or who suffered uterine damage have a baby.
Nearly 15,000 women in the U.K. currently have either been born without a uterus or have had it removed due to a disease like cancer. However, new research into the process of transplanting a womb into [...]

Having Over Five Children May Increase Risks Of Heart Transplant Complications

April 29, 2009 by tanya  
Filed under Baby Health, News

Researchers in Paris claim that women who have five or more children may be at higher risk later on in life if they require a heart transplant.
The findings, made by the Internation Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, were presented at their 29th Annual meeting.
Lead investigator, Cheri Silverstein, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee said [...]