Author Archives: Ginger Plumbo

Obaid Family Gift Will Support Reconstructive Transplant Surgery at Mayo Clinic

August 10th, 2011 - 11:27 am

Mayo Clinic announces a $10 million gift from Tarek Obaid in honor of his parents, Essam and Dalal Obaid, to support reconstructive transplantation research, education, and clinical care at Mayo Clinic. Reconstructive transplantation at Mayo Clinic currently includes hand transplantation. … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic and RosettaBooks Release First of Mayo’s e-Book Titles

May 20th, 2011 - 9:56 am

Mayo Clinic and RosettaBooks have collaborated to release the Mayo Clinic’s first initiative into e-books, Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy, and will follow with at least 15 additional Mayo Clinic e-book titles this year. Mayo Clinic and RosettaBooks’ … Continue reading →

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Kidney Transplant Study

April 7th, 2011 - 12:29 pm

Less common and less severe.  Those are two things you want to hear when talking about complications following kidney transplant.  And those were the findings of a Mayo Clinic study that looked at progressive scar damage to transplanted kidneys. Earlier studies of … Continue reading →

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Transplant Study

May 28th, 2010 - 11:13 am

A new Mayo Clinic study, published in the June 2010 issue of Gastroenterology, disputes a long-held hypothesis that a donor’s race has an impact on the success of liver transplants. Donor race has been associated with graft failure after liver … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic study finds 50 percent drop in need for second liver transplant for Hepatitis B patients using antiviral therapy

April 29th, 2010 - 1:00 pm

Treatment to reduce recurrence of hepatitis B appears to improve liver transplant outcomes for some patients, according to a Mayo Clinic study. “We found that in patients with hepatitis B, the number of patients who were listed for a second … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Study Shows Liver Transplant Center Impacts Patient Outcomes

April 29th, 2010 - 12:51 pm

For patients in need of a liver transplant, their choice of a transplant center can make a noteworthy difference in their outcomes, according to a Mayo Clinic study presented at the American Transplant Congress under way May 1-5 in San … Continue reading →

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