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Category: Organ Donation - Transplant
Pancreas/kidney transplants; babies and electronic screens: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, March 10, 2024
March 7, 2024
Interviews with Matthew Garner, MD, and Danielle Hoose, DPT
Flu, COVID and RSV; kidney transplants in children: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024
February 8, 2024
Interviews with Elizabeth Asiago Reddy, MD, and Toby Le Nguyen, MD
Disease's type and severity can vary widely, need professional assessment
February 1, 2024
Advice from Matthew Garner, MD, Upstate transplant surgeon
Why some patients will also receive a new kidney
January 31, 2024
Interview with Matthew Garner, MD, Upstate transplant surgeon
Living donors can make a huge difference
January 17, 2024
Interview with Toby Le Nguyen, MD, Upstate transplant surgeon
Seasonal vaccinations; tissue typing and transplants; today's hospital food: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023
September 28, 2023
Interviews with Elizabeth Asiago-Reddy, MD, Reut Hod Dvorai, PhD, and Eric Adams...
Caring for aging parents; weight and organ transplant; colonoscopy prep: Upstate's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023
September 15, 2023
Interviews with Sharon Brangman, MD, Reza Saidi, MD, and Kristina Go, MD
Specialists check for compatibility of donors and recipients
August 18, 2023
Interview with Reut Hod Dvorai, PhD, director of the histocompatibility lab
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...