On Wednesday, April 5, 8-year-old Gage Bingham became the third child in his family to receive a heart transplant at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. …
Category: Transplantation
The gift of life: Living with new lungs
When I mention to people that I had a double lung transplant, they usually react in one of two ways. They're likely to say, "Wow, …
Internal pump helps young patient wait for a heart transplant out of the hospital
Over at Healthier, Happy Lives, the blog of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, there's a touching story about a boy who is waiting for a new …
Rat-grown mouse pancreases reverse diabetes in mice, say researchers
If you're into science news (of course you are! You're here, aren't you?) it's likely you'll hear the name Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MD, PhD, this morning. …
High-volume transplant centers save lives, and money
It's old news that transplant patients fare better at centers that perform many transplants. But now, a team led by Joshua Mooney, MD, a Stanford instructor …
After heart transplant, who survives? New study offers tools to tell
Despite careful patient selection, only about 75 percent of heart recipients survive three years after the transplant surgery. Identifying the patients most in need of additional …
Survivors of rare Stanford domino transplant meet, celebrate
The first thing Linda Karr asked her doctor after her heart transplant surgery at Stanford Hospital was, "How is my heart donor doing?" That question …
The inside scoop on bone marrow transplants
Your bones harbor blood manufacturing factories. Those factories, packed in the bone marrow, produce stem cells that develop into red blood cells, white blood cells …
Students launch Stanford Life Savers initiative to boost organ donation
In the United States, approximately 18 people die each day waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, and every 13 minutes a new name is added …
Film about twin sisters' double lung transplants and battle against cystic fibrosis available online
"The Power of Two," a documentary offering an intimate look at the lives of twin sisters Anabel Stenzel and Isabel Stenzel Byrnes and their battle …
The mystery surrounding lung-transplant survival rates
Updated 3-3-14: This story and video focus on living long-term with transplanted organs and discuss why some transplant patients exceed standard expectations. *** 11-1-12: There …
Stanford visiting professor and founder of kidney-exchange program wins Nobel economics prize
Speaking of the Nobels, Alvin Roth, PhD, a Stanford alum and visiting professor who will become a full Stanford faculty member at the start of …
Meet the filmmakers behind "The Power of Two"
The story of Anabel Stenzel and Isabel Stenzel Byrnes, twins born with cystic fibrosis, is now getting the silver screen (or liquid crystal, if you …
Twitter Stories: How social media saved one man's life
Twitter has launched a great looking new site, Twitter Stories, to show how people are using the service. One story, about @ChrisStrouth, chronicles how Twitter …
A boot camp for recovery
Earlier this spring, my colleague wrote about a group of Stanford organ transplant patients who created an informal exercise group to help with their recovery. …
Transplant patients organize a boot camp
This is remarkable stuff: A group of transplant patients from Stanford Hospital & Clinics have organized a "Transplant Boot Camp." According to an SHC release: …