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SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Donor age did not affect recipient survival after liver transplantation over the past five years, data from a single-center experience showed.

An estimated 100,000 people in India may have escaped HIV infection over five years thanks to one of the world's biggest prevention programs, an encouraging sign that targeting high-risk groups remains vital even as more donors focus on treatment, a new study suggests....

(MedPage Today) -- Transplant-related deaths can be markedly reduced if recipients and donors of umbilical-cord blood are better matched than they currently are, researchers reported.

Hundreds of lives could be saved by the NHS using more kidneys for transplant from donors whose hearts have stopped, experts say.

ATLANTA (AP) -- South African surgeons have transplanted kidneys between donors and patients who were both infected with the AIDS virus - a medical first that has some U.S. doctors buzzing about whether it could be tried here....

Matching up the weight of donors and recipients boosts success in kidney transplants, suggests French research.

For patients undergoing cardiac surgery, plasma transfused from male donors was associated with worse outcomes than that from female donors, a retrospective, single-center study showed.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thirteen patients with healthy new kidneys from what's believed to be the world's largest kidney exchange met the donors who made it happen Tuesday - including three who are sure to face the question, "Why?"...

(McMaster University) The Canadian blood supply relies heavily on a small number of donors -- with young adults donating at higher rates -- which may prove problematic as the population ages, according to a new study from McMaster University.

Adults who receive a single kidney from a very young donor can survive with minimal complications, so that splitting pairs of kidneys from young donors may increase the number of patients who receive transplants, a new study found.