Hospital survival differs among Hispanic and non-Hispanic heart failure patientsMedical XpressThe odds of surviving their hospital stay for heart failure differ between Hispanic and non-Hispanic white patients according to their level of heart function…
Sleep apnea treatment may protect against heart failure – Medical Xpress
Sleep apnea treatment may protect against heart failureMedical XpressA nightly breathing treatment may do more than help people with obstructive sleep apnea get a good night's rest — it may also help prevent heart failure. In a study published in…
Renal Cancer Therapeutics: Now What? – Cancer Network
Renal Cancer Therapeutics: Now What?Cancer NetworkBy Walter M. Stadler, MD, FACP 1 | March 13, 2012 The development of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway inhibitors and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors for the treatment of…
Systemic Therapy in Renal Cell Carcinoma: Advancing Paradigms – Cancer Network
Systemic Therapy in Renal Cell Carcinoma: Advancing ParadigmsCancer NetworkIt is recognized that early intervention with nephrectomy results in excellent long-term survival. In 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first small mo…
Minoru Mori, Japan's Mr. Real Estate, Dies of Heart Failure at 77 – World Property Channel
NorthJersey.comMinoru Mori, Japan's Mr. Real Estate, Dies of Heart Failure at 77World Property ChannelBillionaire Minoru Mori, Japan's Mr. Real Estate, has died of heart failure at the age of 77. His Mori Building Co. announced March 12 that Mo…
Organ donation providing some comfort for family of Forfar woman Dawn Coverdale – Scotland Courier
Scotland CourierOrgan donation providing some comfort for family of Forfar woman Dawn CoverdaleScotland CourierRoss added: ''If an organ donation could have saved her we would have wanted that for her, and we are convinced she would have wanted…
Dying during delivery: heart failure kills moms-to-be – WFTV Orlando
Dying during delivery: heart failure kills moms-to-beWFTV OrlandoHEART FAILURE AND PREGNANCY: Cardiac diseases complicate one percent to four percent of pregnancies in women without preexisting cardiac abnormalities. If a woman has preexisting symptoms…
Teen Receives Life-saving Double Organ Transplant at Texas Children's Hospital – Bradenton Herald
Teen Receives Life-saving Double Organ Transplant at Texas Children's HospitalBradenton HeraldDr. Marc Schecter, medical director of lung transplantation and Dr. Beth Carter, interim medical director of liver transplantation monitored the lung and …
'Four in 10 people' on organ donor list in NHS Grampian area – BBC News
BBC News'Four in 10 people' on organ donor list in NHS Grampian areaBBC NewsNHS Grampian has reached an organ donation high – with four in 10 people signed up to the register. A total of 40.2% of residents in the health board area are now regis…
In conversation: Dick Teresi – Macleans.ca
Macleans.caIn conversation: Dick TeresiMacleans.caDoctors became more involved, but the real change occurred in 1968: a committee of 13 men at Harvard Medical School endorsed brain death as legal death, and this became US law in 1981. Doctors were now …