The Transplantation Society and the International Society of Nephrology gathered experts at the International Summit on Transplant Tourism and Organ Traffic in Istanbul from 30th April to 2nd May 2008.... continue

Last December 2008, a plastic surgeon named Maria Siemionow, after several years of extensive research on mice and cadavers, succeeded in transplanting more than 80 square inches of skin, with muscles,... continue

The most crucial and problematic issue regarding transplantation is the widespread lack of organs. In fact even if this therapy is known for improving dramatically the quality of life of thousands of... continue

Following transmission of HIV to three blood recipients in the Tuscany Region (Florence) in 2007, the Italian health authorities requested the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe to... continue

The main European transplant organizations actively took part to ALLIANCE-O, a project financed by the European Commission that aimed at setting up further cooperation and coordination in European national... continue

EUROCET is an online multilingual registry that publishes official and updated data on tissues and cells donation and transplantation activity from all EU member states, collected by the Italian National... continue