Initial outcomes of using allografts from donation after cardiac death donors for liver transplantation in New South Wales.

Objectives: To report the early outcomes of the initial selection and use of donation after cardiac death (DCD) donor livers for transplantation in New South Wales, following a guidelines implementation process.

Design And Setting: Review of database and medical records from the Australian National Liver Transplantation Unit and the NSW Organ and T2 Donation Service for DCD activity including organ donor offers and retrievals, from 1 July 2007 to 31 December 2010.

Main Outcome Measures: Acceptance and utilisation rates of livers from DCD donors, and patient and graft outcomes after liver transplantation.

New multiple-herbicide crop resistance and formulation technology to augment the utility of glyphosate.

Glyphosate has performed long and well, but now some weed communities are shifting to populations that survive glyphosate, and growers need new weed management technologies to augment glyphosate performance in glyphosate-resistant crops. Unfortunately, most companies are not developing any new selective herbicides with new modes of action to fill this need. Fortunately, companies are developing new herbicide-resistant crop technologies to combine with glyphosate resistance and expand the utility of existing herbicides.