Inspirational Scot hoping double lung transplant will give her 'second chance at life'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/inspirational-scot-hoping-double-lung-37226628

Japan's health ministry plans to begin providing about ¥470 million in aid this fiscal year to medical institutions that conduct a large number of organ transplants from brain-dead patients. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/28/japan/science-health/organ-transplant-hospitals-aid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #mhlw #hospitals #death #transplants #medicine #aid
Health ministry to give financial aid to organ transplant hospitals

The aid program is designed to reduce cases in which transplants are canceled due to staff shortages, as more people become organ donors.

The Japan Times
Survey of economists, concerning Living-Donor Kidney Transplants #EconTwitter #academiceconomics #compensationfordonors #kidneyexchange #oped #transplants

Holy fucking fuck, SCIENCE!

"A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs." --Dr Ian Weissman on Bluesky

Because it's been pointed out below: the piece is from August 2025.

#Science #Diabet4es #Insulin #Transplants #immuneSystem

https://www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its-kind-cell-transplant-brings-a-cure-for-diabetes-closer

First-Of-Its-Kind Cell Transplant Brings a Cure For Diabetes Closer

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells.

ScienceAlert
Woman receives rare quadruple organ transplant

After being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis-related diabetes, Jasmine Jones’s liver and kidneys began to fail, leading to a rare and complicated quadruple transplant that was performed by a te…

WGN-TV

Navigating the Transplant Journey: How to Be Your Own Best Advocate

Waiting for a life-saving organ transplant is an emotional, exhausting, and overwhelming process. When you are dealing with a serious illness, it is easy to feel like a passive passenger in a massive healthcare machine. But here is the truth: You are the captain of your healthcare team. To get through the transplant process safely and successfully, you need to be informed, vigilant, and proactive. Here are four vital strategies every transplant candidate and their family should know to […]

https://joydropwellness.com/2026/05/21/navigating-the-transplant-journey-how-to-be-your-own-best-advocate/

#transplants #photosynthesis

"Mouse eyes photosynthesize after plant-to-animal transplant

Could spinach extracts be the next treatment for dry-eye disease?

Photosynthetic machinery can be harvested from spinach and transplanted into the eyes of mice, where it transforms light into molecules that carry energy and can tame inflammation"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01559-9

Mouse eyes photosynthesize after plant-to-animal transplant

Could spinach extracts be the next treatment for dry-eye disease?

“Israel’s organ theft scandal exposes a culture of desecration”

by Robert Inlakesh in The Cradle

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“With a wealth of evidence and accusations indicating that Israel has been implicated in the systematic harvesting of organs during its genocide, it begs the question as to why no independent international investigation has yet been opened.

As in the early 1990s, Palestinian evidence is again being buried beneath western political protection, fear of Israel lobby retaliation, and the standing presumption that Israeli institutions can investigate themselves”

https://thecradle.co/articles/israels-organ-theft-scandal-exposes-a-culture-of-desecration

#Press #SocialMedia #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #OrganHarvesting #OrganTrafficking #OrgsnTheft #Prisoners #Torture #Evidence #Palestinians #Genocide #Transplants #AbuKabir #Forensic #Institute #MatnatChaim

Israel’s organ theft scandal exposes a culture of desecration

Tel Aviv’s pageant of kidney-donor virtue cannot wash away the Palestinian bodies, forensic warnings, and trafficking scandals that still demand a reckoning.

thecradle.co