Transplantation: a donor heart successfully travels nearly 7,000 kilometers
While the maximum transplant time is usually four hours, one donor heart was successfully transplanted after 12 hours of flight. ...
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Medical feat: first transplant of a beating heart from a deceased donor
By using an organ taken from a donor in a state of cardiac death, American surgeons succeeded, for the first ...
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Kidney transplant: she finds a donor by putting an ad on her car
A 60-year-old was able to receive a kidney from a compatible donor after formulating and writing her request for help ...
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Kidney transplant: even if the first fails, it is better to try the operation again
While many transplant patients live longer than their new kidney can function, research shows that it's better to do the ...
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Covid-19: 25% drop in transplants in France in 2020
Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, the biomedicine agency takes stock of 2020, then recommends "continuing organ transplants of an emergency ...
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Bone marrow transplant: new donors must not be older than 35
Since January 1, the maximum age for registering on the national register of bone marrow donors has been lowered by ...
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“Since the start of the health crisis, we have not been able to obtain more than 100,000 blood donations”
The stocks of red blood cell bags at the French Blood Establishment have reached their lowest reserves in a decade. ...
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There are fewer and fewer kidney transplants with living donors
While there were more transplants in 2019 in France than the previous year, the number of living donor kidney transplants ...
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Blood donation: the period of sexual abstinence for homosexual donors shortened to 4 months
From April 2, 2020, homosexual blood donors will no longer be obliged to observe a period of sexual abstinence of ...
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United States: the DNA of a man partially replaced by that of his donor
Chris Long received a bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia. Four years later, analyzes show that his DNA has ...
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The ex-director of a sperm bank replaced the samples and had 49 biological children
DNA tests could be carried out after his death, then compared to the DNA of the people concerned.Jan Karbaat has ...
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World Blood Donor Day: “the French do not renew their approach enough”
On this Thursday, June 14, World Blood Donor Day raises public awareness of the importance of blood donation in France, ...
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The French Blood Establishment launches an emergency appeal to potential donors
The French Blood Establishment (EFS) "launches an emergency appeal and invites donors to move massively now", the World Cup and ...
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Bone marrow donation: fighting against preconceived ideas
The Biomedicine Agency lacks bone marrow donors. She begins a campaign to shatter preconceived ideas about this donation, which is ...
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Transplant: he announces on video that he is giving his kidney to his best friend
A young man has filmed his best friend's reaction when he announces that he is donating a kidney. This organ ...
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Infertility: the Biomedicine Agency calls for donations
Faced with the growing number of couples affected by infertility, the Biomedicine Agency wishes to recruit nearly 1,200 donors "Become ...
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Sperm donor: a right to anonymity and a moral duty
The fight of a lawyer born by sperm donation, to learn more about her biological father, has rekindled the debate ...
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World donation day: living donor transplantation progresses
The idea of organ donation is growing in consciousness, in particular the donation of the living. But there is still ...
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Egg donation: a site to support future donors
The Biomedicine Agency needs 900 additional egg donors. To achieve this, she is creating a new interactive site that will ...
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Why bone marrow donation is important
The Biomedicine Agency hopes to recruit 18,000 new donors this year and above all to diversify the profiles, because the ...
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Blood donation: take advantage of your vacation to donate!
With its new campaign, the EFS hopes to convince summer visitors to donate blood. During the summer, 10,000 donations are ...
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World Day: what is the use of the blood you donate
Thanks to the generosity of regular or occasional donors, 10,000 donations per day are made in France. This solidarity gesture ...
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West Indies: travelers must wait a month to donate blood
While an appeal for donations is launched, vacationers returning from the West Indies and Italy must wait a month before ...
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Blood donation: increased needs due to chikungunya
On the occasion of the start of the school year, the French are invited to donate blood after a shortage ...
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Bone marrow donation: 20,365 new donors in 2013
In 2013, the Biomedicine Agency hoped to recruit 18,000 new people for bone marrow donation. In the end, 20,365 new ...
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Young kidney transplant recipients forget their difficulties in 18 months
A study of children with kidney transplants shows that they have a good quality of life. 18 months after their ...
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Fertility: the Biomedicine Agency is looking for 900 egg donors
The Biomedicine Agency is launching a new site to recruit and encourage women to donate oocytes.THE'Biomedicine Agency will stop at ...
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What is the bone marrow used for? Bone marrow has a vital role in our body, it is used to ...
Read moreOrgan donation is not successful
A transplant is a last-ditch medical act, and many diseases can lead to a transplant: end-stage renal failure, heart disease ...
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