December 2011
- A COTA Family is Celebrating the Ultimate Gift … the Gift of Life
- Black Children Less Likely to Get Kidney Transplant Before Dialysis
- New Half-Match Bone Marrow Transplant Procedure Yields Promising Outcomes for Cancer Patients
- Are You Ready to Let COTA Help Your Transplant Families?
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November 2011
- New York COTA Family Celebrating an Adoption … and Their Son's Second Chance at Life
- Artificial Lung Device: Feasibility of Lung Transplants Demonstrated
- Stem Cell Therapy Holds Promise for Kidney Disease
- COTA Website Offers Tools for Professionals and Families
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October 2011
- Texas Toddler Celebrating Halloween and His New Heart with a Mighty Roar
- Researchers Develop New Way to Predict Heart Transplant Survival
- Enhanced Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplants Safe in Long-Term Studies
- COTA Speakers Available for Support Group Meetings
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September 2011
- A New Jersey COTA Girl is Anxious to Rock and Rock with Her New Liver
- Important Risk Factors Discovered For Death and Transplantation in Children With Heart Muscle Disease
- Bone Marrow Transplant Survival More Than Doubles for Young High-Risk Leukemia Patients
- Tips for Referring Patients to COTA
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August 2011
- A COTA Teen is Celebrating His Second Chance at Life and National Minority Donor Awareness Efforts
- New Resolution Guards Rights of Organ Donors
- Stem Cell Transplants Boosted By Umbilical Cord Blood Deemed Safe
- We Hope To See You This Fall!
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July 2011
- A Two-Time Cord Blood Transplant 'Survivor' is Reaching for the Stars
- Cell Therapy Aims to Prevent Transplant Rejection
- Discovery of Lung Stem Cells May Herald New Treatments
- COTA Needs Your Feedback
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June 2011
- The Best Father's Day Gift … A Daughter's Second Chance at Life
- Girls Less Likely Than Boys to Be On Kidney Transplant List
- Most Leukemia Patients Recover From 'Chemo Brain' After Transplant
- COTA Speakers Available for Support Group Meetings
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May 2011
- The Best Mother's Day Gift ... A Son's Second Chance at Life
- High Smog Levels Might Threaten Lung Transplant Success
- Identified Growth Factor Promotes Stem Cell Growth, Regeneration
- ANNOUNCING ... Expanded Electronic Communication Regarding Your Patients and COTA
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April 2011
- April is Donate Life Month … COTA Families Nationwide are Grateful
- Donation after Cardiac Death Worsens Liver Transplant Survival
- New Research Could Aid in Bone Marrow Transplants
- April Marks COTA's 25th Year of Service to Transplant Families
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March 2011
- An Amazing COTA Teen 'Fighter' Living Life after Two Transplants
- FDA Clears Test to Help Patients with Kidney Transplants
- Novel Strategy Improves Outcomes after Stem Cell Transplantation
- COTA Says "Thank You" to Transplant Social Workers
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February 2011
- Thanks to a New Heart … A COTA Family is Celebrating a Very Special Valentine's Day
- New Method Might Raise Number of Donor Lungs
- Inhibiting Cell Signaling Pathway May Improve Bone Marrow Transplant Success Rate
- COTA's Website Offers Tools for Professionals and Families
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January 2011
- A COTA College Coed is Pursuing Her Dreams … Thanks to Her Second Chance at Life
- Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Lung Transplant Rejection
- Donor Matching Program Improved With New IBM Software
- Tips for Referring Patients to COTA
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December 2010
- COTA Family Looking Forward to Holiday Chaos with Twin Toddlers
- Longer Antiviral Therapy Reduces Lung Transplant Complications
- U.S. Researchers Make Stem Cells Quickly From Skin
- Watch Your Mailboxes!
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November 2010
- COTA Girl Ready to Celebrate a BIG Birthday
- New Test for Heart, Kidney Transplant Rejection
- Experimental Technology Improves Cord Blood Transplants for Leukemia Patients
- Thank You for Helping COTA Celebrate!
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October 2010
- COTA Toddler is 'All Shook Up' and Ready to Celebrate Halloween
- Extensive Trial Confirms Benefits of Early Steroid Withdrawal for Transplant Patients
- New Study Suggests Tooth Regeneration Possible by Body's Own Stem Cells
- 2011 COTA Calendars On the Press
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September 2010
- Meet Cason Blakely – A COTA Miracle
- Viral Infection Predicts Heart Transplant Loss in Children
- Kit-Based Cord Blood Program Gives Moms New Options for Donation
- COTA Database Updates
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August 2010
- Meet Zach Baza ... A COTA Miracle
- Efforts to Increase Minority Organ Donations Show Success
- Drug Dramatically Reduces Nausea and Vomiting in Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
- We Hope to See You This Fall ...
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July 2010
- Meet Major ... A COTA Miracle
- Study Says U.S. Heart Transplant Waiting List for Infants Needs Overhaul
- African Americans Less Likely to Get Stem Cell Transplants
- COTA Needs Your Feedback
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June 2010
- Meet Treyton ... A COTA Father’s Day Miracle
- Cytomegalovirus Resistance Linked to Subtherapeutic Ganciclovir
- Less Intense Bone Marrow Transplants Being Used to Treat Sickle Cell, Other Disorders
- Tips for Referring Patients to COTA
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May 2010
- Meet David Mills … A COTA Mother’s Day Miracle
- Poor, Minority Heart Transplant Patients Fare Worse
- First Successful Use of Expanded Umbilical Cord Blood Units to Treat Leukemia
- COTA Speakers Available for Support Group Meetings
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April 2010
- Meet Amber Asboe … A COTA Miracle
- Earlier Not Necessarily Better When Receiving A Kidney Transplant
- Cord Blood Transplantation, Even Unrelated and Mismatched, Can Still Help Children with Deadly Conditions
- COTA To Sponsor Several 2010 Professional Conferences
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March 2010
- Meet Gregory Ramsey … A COTA Miracle
- In Pediatric Intestinal Transplantation, Children with Volvulus Have the Best Outcomes
- Stem Cell, Bone Marrow Transplants Both Benefit Leukemia Patients
- Scholarship Available for Transplant Recipients
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February 2010
- Meet TJ Wilson … A COTA Miracle
- Miniaturized Heart Pumps May Be Effective for Children Awaiting Transplant
- ‘Needle in Haystack’ Biomarker Validated in Graft-Vs-Host Disease
- Referring Transplant Families to COTA
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January 2010
- COTA Rings in the New Year With Its 1,400th Patient
- Repairing Injured Lungs May Boost Organ Donations
- Missing Gene May Be Tied to Bone Marrow Transplant Problems
- COTA Adds Family Resource Area to Website
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December 2009
- The Best Holiday Gift
- Extended Antiviral May Benefit Kidney Transplant Patients
- New Program Launches to Help Save Lives of African Americans
- COTA Reports Record Number of Children Successfully Transplanted
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November 2009
- Meet Brayden and Trevin … Two COTA Miracles
- Organ Donation Policies Vary Among Children's Hospitals
- Duke Studies New Approach in Fetal Transplants for Metabolic Disorders
- Changes Made to COTA’s Volunteer Recruitment Process
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October 2009
- Meet Josef Walker aka Spiderman ... A COTA Miracle
- New Guidelines Help Primary Care Doctors Treat Liver Transplant Recipients
- Children's Hospital in Colorado One of 24 Cord Blood Transplant Centers
Worldwide Enrolling Trial Studying New Leukemia/Lymphoma Treatment
- COTA Representatives to Attend Fall Transplant Conferences
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September 2009
- Meet the Perea’s … A COTA Family Trying to Raise Awareness of the Need for Hispanic Organ Donors
- Common Cold Virus Delivers Corrected Gene to Cystic Fibrosis Cells
- Potential Risk Identified In Transfusions of Platelets Before Bone Marrow Transplant
- COTA Selected as One of CHANCEtoGIVE Foundation’s Top Performing Charities
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August 2009
- Meet Allison Blankenship ... A COTA Miracle
- Flu Shot May Be Less Effective After Transplant
- Fat Cells in Bone Marrow Impair Transplant Healing
- New COTA Patient Materials Available
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July 2009
- Meet Steven Gonzalez ... A COTA Miracle
- Liver Transplants Have Good Results in Hispanic Children
- Donor Stem Cell Transplant Best For Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- COTA Webinar Program Unveiled
- Transplant Scholars Award Available From Astellas
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June 2009
- Meet Christopher Padua … A COTA Miracle
- Donation Chain Has Led to 10 Kidney Transplants
- Unique Bone Marrow Transplant Said to Cure Sickle Cell
- COTA is Newest American Legion Partner
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May 2009
- The Best Mother’s Day Gift … A Daughter’s Second Chance at Life
- Heart Transplant Failures More Likely in Poor, Minority Kids
- Bone Marrow Transplant Patients May Benefit From New Immune Research
- 10th Annual George Taliaferro Open To Benefit Children Coming June 1st
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April 2009
- Meet Lauren Seiders ... A COTA Miracle
- Lung Transplant Outcomes Better at High-Volume Hospitals
- Cord Blood Transplantation, Even Unrelated and Mismatched, Can Still Help Children with Deadly Conditions
- Are You Ready to Let COTA Help Your Families?
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March 2009
- Meet Adam Trumble ... A COTA Miracle
- Gene Mutation Increases Drug Toxicity, Rejection Risk in Pediatric Kidney Transplants
- NMDP Celebrates 35,000 Transplants
- COTA Website Offers Tools for Professionals and Families
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February 2009
- COTA Toddler Grace Moore To Celebrate Her 2nd Birthday … and Her New Heart
- New National Donor Memorial Website Launched
- FDA Approves Drug That Boosts Stem Cell Yield for Bone Marrow Transplants
- COTA Launches New Website
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January 2009
- COTA Toddler Gabriel Broghammer Celebrates His One-Year Transplant Anniversary
- Good Graft Function Seen in Five-Year Survivors of Pediatric Liver Transplantation
- New Resources from the NMDP Office of Patient Advocacy
- Tips for Referring Patients to the Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA)
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December 2008
- The Best Holiday Gift
- Heart Pump Helps Children Waiting for Transplant
- Unrelated Cord Blood Transplants an Option for Children with Leukemia
- $75,000 Donation Kicks Off Holiday Giving Season for COTA
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November 2008
- Meet Kyle Hicks ... COTA’s 1,300th Patient
- U.S. Transplant Waiting List Passes 100,000
- New Related Donor Cord Blood Program Launched
- Despite National Economic Headlines and Financial Hardships, COTA Continues to Meet the Needs of Transplant Patients
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October 2008
- A COTA Teenager Who Hoped for a Miracle ... and Received One
- Study Urges Change for Liver Waitlists
- Embryonic Stem Cells Reduce Transplant Rejection
- COTA Ends Year with Record Number of Children Successfully Transplanted
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September 2008
- Steven González, Jr. ... COTA Hispanic Teen's Community Fundraising Efforts Result in More Than 400 Individuals Added to the Bone Marrow Registry
- First Heart Transplants in Children Following Donor Cardiac Death
- Bone Marrow Transplants: Cancer Drug Shows Promise Against Graft-Versus-Host Disease
- COTA Receives $52,000 Donation from the Carroll Shelby Children’s Foundation
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August 2008
- Havalah Kolb ... Three Years Post Transplant and Still Celebrating Her Second Chance at Life
- Statins May Reduce Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease
- OPTN/ UNOS Board Approves Measures to Broaden Access for Living Donation and Institutes Policy Changes Regarding Pediatric Transplantation
- COTA Saturday Initiative “One Million Miracles” Creating a Nationwide Network of Partners
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July 2008
- Less Than Two Years Since Her Liver and Kidney Transplant, COTA Patient Dyamond Ott is Enjoying Her Summer to the Fullest
- New Technology Enhances and Expands “Homing” and Therapeutic Potential of Cord Blood Stem Cells in Bone Marrow Transplants
- Sirolimus Linked to New-Onset Diabetes Following Renal Transplant
- COTA Will Soon Be Surveying Transplant Professionals
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June 2008
- A New Heart … A New Start … A Miracle Preparing for High School Graduation and Planning for College
- Refinements in the Risk Classification for Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- Low Socioeconomic Status a Risk Factor for Heart Graft Failure
- www.cota.org – An Online Information Source for Transplant Professionals
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May 2008
- The Best Mother’s Day Gift … A Daughter’s Second Chance At Life
- Antiviral Prophylaxis Curbs CMV After Lung Transplant
- National Marrow Donor Program and America's Blood Centers Partner to Expand Access to Marrow and Cord Blood Transplants
- Transplant Family DVD Now Available from COTA
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