Tag: transplants
Kidney transplants: each year in France, around a hundred removed organs are destroyed, but why?
News Published on 11/25/2024 at 4:37 p.m. updated on 11/25/2024 at 4:37 p.m. Reading 2 min. in collaboration with Dr Gérald Kierzek (Medical Director of Doctissimo) According to France Info…
First in France, three crossed kidney transplants carried out at the same time: an unprecedented medical challenge
News Published on 11/20/2024 at 1:24 p.m. updated on 11/20/2024 at 1:24 p.m. Reading 3 min. The announcement was made by the Biomedicine Agency: for the first time in France,…
at least six people receive HIV-infected organ transplants
For the past week, arrests and controversies have increased in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where six people received organ transplants infected with HIV, the AIDS virus. Since…
Kidney transplants mean health savings, says association
News Published on 09/14/2024 at 2:02 p.m. updated on 09/14/2024 at 2:02 p.m. Reading 2 min. The kidney disease patients’ association Renaloo is calling on the government to speed up…
Assessment after 10 years of uterus transplants: what lessons for the future of reproductive medicine?
News Published on 08/29/2024 at 3:33 p.m. updated on 08/29/2024 at 3:33 p.m. Reading 3 min. Ten years after the start of uterus transplants, a revolutionary technique in reproductive medicine,…
Cancer, transplants… These personalities who advance medicine and research – L’Express
Fake news, whatever it may be, polarizes debate and fragments society. Sciences in general, and medicine in particular, are particularly exposed to these threats. This is why L’Express has placed…
World first: two lung transplants in patients with inverted organs (situs inversus)
News Published on 12/26/2023 at 1:24 p.m. Updated 12/26/2023 at 1:24 p.m. Reading 3 min. Approximately one in 10,000 people are born with inverted organs, known as “Situs inversus”, a…
Lung cancer: lung transplants save two doomed patients
News Published on 03/16/2023 at 6:10 p.m. Updated 03/16/2023 at 6:10 p.m. Reading 2 mins. Recently, two people with “very advanced” lung cancer were saved by a double lung transplant.…
Covid-19: unvaccinated patients are denied transplants
News Published on 03/08/2023 at 8:29 p.m. Updated 03/08/2023 at 8:29 p.m. Reading 2 mins. At a time when the pandemic seems far behind us, a woman, awaiting a kidney…
Trans women could soon bear children thanks to uterus transplants
News Published on 02/08/2023 at 09:00 Updated 02/08/2023 at 09:00 Reading 2 mins. According to a new study, trans women may soon carry pregnancies to term thanks to uterus transplants.…