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Category: Organ Donation - Transplant

Pancreas transplants; COVID and pain; clues to a retinal disease: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023
August 17, 2023
Interviews with Reza Saidi, MD, Jamie Romeiser, PhD, and William Spencer, PhD

Select group of patients don't need a new kidney
July 12, 2023
Interview with Reza Saidi, MD, chief of transplant services

Poverty, obesity, maternal health among local health concerns; explaining a widespread virus; reversing drug overdoses: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, April 9, 2023
April 7, 2023
Interviews with Health Commissioner Katie Anderson, MD, PhD, researcher Gary...

Cytomegalovirus can harm those with weakened immune systems
April 4, 2023
Interview with Upstate research scientist Gary Chan, PhD

Transplants and obesity; latest trends in poisonings; lung cancer research: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023
February 24, 2023
Interviews with transplant chief Reza Saidi, MD, poison center Administrative...

Research shows that weight need not disqualify a candidate
February 13, 2023
Interview with Reza Saidi, MD, chief of transplant services at Upstate

How the kidney waiting list works; patients with impaired consciousness; helping someone with cancer: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, March 13, 2022
March 11, 2022
Interviews with transplant surgery chief Reza Saidi, MD, ethicist and...

How kidneys and other donated organs are allocated for transplants
February 25, 2022
Interview with Reza Saidi, MD, chief of transplant services at Upstate

Ovarian cancer surgery; a diabetes drug without side effects; a disease that can threaten transplant patients: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021
December 10, 2021
Interviews with gynecologic oncologist Rinki Agarwal, MD, chemistry professor...

Researching new ways to treat graft-versus-host disease
November 29, 2021
Interview with Mobin Karimi, MD, PhD, a researcher in microbiology and...

Studying diseases spread by ticks and mosquitoes; kidney transplants for kids; drugs that fight HIV: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, April 25, 2021
April 21, 2021
Interviews with researcher and tick expert Saravanan Thangamani, PhD; surgeon...

Children require kidney transplants for different reasons than adults
April 15, 2021
Interview with surgeon Reza Saidi, MD, Upstate's chief of transplant services

Vaccines for children in testing phase; living-donor kidney transplants; the pandemic's effect on kids: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday. April 4, 2021
April 2, 2021
Interviews with pediatric infectious disease specialist Joe Domachowske, MD,...

Kidney shortage lessens as healthy people donate one of their kidneys for transplant
March 12, 2021
Interview with Reza Saidi, MD, chief of transplant services at Upstate...

Surgery to treat atrial fibrillation; epilepsy and its treatment; transplants pass a milestone: Upstate Medical University's HealthLInk on Air for Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021
January 15, 2021
Interviews with cardiothoracic surgeon Stephen Waterford, MD; neurosurgeon...

Potential COVID vaccine undergoes testing at Upstate; a way to reduce transplant complications: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020
August 14, 2020
Interviews with infectious disease chief Stephen Thomas, MD, and Oleh Pankewycz,...

New formula aims to reduce complications after kidney transplants
July 22, 2020
Interview with Upstate professor of medicine Oleh Pankewycz, MD

How pediatricians approach sensitive topics; telestroke service reaches distant areas; living kidney donations, transplants explained: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019
September 20, 2019