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"Previously, Uruguay had tried to go it alone, but high mortality rates soon caused doctors to shut the program down. After their initial visit, the UCSF transplant team, including anesthesiologist Claus U. Niemann, MD (pictured first), and surgeons Ryutaro Hirose, MD (pictured second), and Peter Stock, MD, PhD,...

For years, surgeons have been seeking ways of operating on babies in the womb, reasoning that medical abnormalities are easier to address while the fetus is still developing. Now, for the first time, a large clinical trial has shown that fetal surgery can also benefit infants with non life-threatening conditions...

UCSF News reports on f etal stem cell transplantation, taking healthy cells from the bone marrow of a donor, and transplanting them into the fetus through ultrasound-guided injections with the goal of having the implanted cells, or graft, replenish the patient’s supply of healthy blood-forming cells. UCSF...

" John Roberts, M.D., chief of the UCSF Transplant Service and a leading expert in liver transplant surgery for adults and children, recently talked with Andrew Schorr of Patient Power about the risks and benefits of living donor liver transplant surgery. Liver transplants provide patients a chance for a longer...

Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan died on December 13, 2010 of complications related to a tear in his aorta. A USA Today article suggested that "Holbrooke most likely was unaware that his aorta had ballooned into an aneurysm". Holbrooke, who was 69, died several days after...

Then post-graduate student Eric Nakakura, M.D., Ph.D., working in the lab of Johns' Hopkins cancer biologist Barry Nelkin, was struck by how the migration of neurological cells to form the developing brain bore an uncanny similarly to the inexorable migration of invasive cells to distant sites in cancer metastasis...

"People infected with the AIDS virus can safely receive a kidney transplant, researchers reported on Wednesday. The finding, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, is good news for people with HIV who are more prone to kidney disease, in part because of the drugs they must take to stay healthy...

UCSF announces the formation of the Institute for Fetal and Neonatal Health symposium brings together clinicians and basic scientists involved in different aspects of development and fetal intervention.

UCSF scientists have received two large grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to refine their human embryonic stem cell-based strategies for treating neurological diseases and liver failure. A team led by Mark Zern, MD, of the University of California, Davis, and including co-principal...

The UCSF Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration, led by Valerie Weaver, PhD, Professor of Surgery, moves into newly renovated lab space. This new, fully equipped lab facility provides an ideal environment for UCSF researchers to carry out the center's initiative to better understand cancer and therefore...

UCSF colorectal surgeons offer a minimally invasive procedure called Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEM) for removal of rectal tumors including early stage rectal cancers.TEM is available only at a select group of instiutions nationwide. Previously, surgery to remove rectal tumors always required an abdominal...

Stopping curvature of the spine in kids usually requires a series of painful operations to implant rods and screws to adjust the spine. Even then, the results are often less than perfect. However, a medical team at UCSF has developed a technique using magnets that promises to do away with so many surgeries.

On Saturday August 7th, UCSF will held its annual Pediatric Transplant Picnic at McNears Beach in San Rafael, CA. Hundreds of children and their families will attended this yearly celebration of the Transplant Service at UCSF. A space-themed party included a costume contest, music, dancing, kayaking, face-painting...

A research group at Stanford University, led by Helen M. Blau, Jason H. Pomerantz (pictured left), now an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at UCSF, and Kostandin V. Pajcini, has, as reported by the NY Times, "taken a possible first step toward unlocking the human...