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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.

(MedPage Today) -- A single dose of the monovalent pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine was not enough to protect immunocompromised pediatric liver transplant recipients, a small study suggested.

Scientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the laboratory using stem cells.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Blacks waiting for a liver transplant used to be more likely to die compared to whites. Now they have the same chance of getting a life-saving organ under a nationwide system that puts the sickest patients first, a new study found....

DURHAM, N.C. (MedPage Today) -- The objective scoring system adopted in 2002 for allocating livers for transplantation has put women at a disadvantage, even as it appears to have eliminated an earlier racial disparity, researchers here said.