As Yolanda Mixon smiled broadly and joked easily with reporters on the morning of May 11, it was difficult to imagine that, just two days earlier, she had received a new kidney – donated by her daughter – at UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital. “The best Mother’s Day ever,” Mixon quipped.
In honor of all those who have given the gift of life, the Miller School/UHealth — University of Miami Health System is joining the national Workplace Partnership for Life campaign, coordinated by the Department of Surgery’s Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency.
More than 375 guests attended the Third Annual Humanitarian Award Celebration benefiting the Miami Transplant Institute at the Miller School on March 17.
Mesenchymal stem cells may replace a powerful anti-rejection drug in transplant recipients, a study by the University of Miami Diabetes Research Institute and a DRI Federation center in China have found. The study was published in JAMA on March 21.
Transplant surgeons from UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital performed an innovative and unprecedented combined transplant of a liver, two kidneys and a pancreas on 6-year-old Angela Bushi, who was discharged on February 23.