Meta-analysis makes case for drug-eluting stents in STEMITheHeart.OrgNew York, NY – Newer-generation drug-eluting stents, particularly the everolimus-eluting stent (Xience V, Abbot; Promus, Boston Scientific), significantly reduce the risk of target ve…
House bill looks to extend Medicare coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for …OregonLive.comFrom a brother-to-brother kidney donation, the gift of life With the waiting list for kidneys growing longer as donations fall, a living kidney donation can be…
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Liver Transplantation – Pipeline Review, H2 2013
SBWire (press release) ‘Liver Transplantation – Pipeline Review, H2 2013′, provides an overview of the indications therapeutic pipeline. This report provides information on the therapeutic development for Liver Transplantation, complete with latest updates, and special … |
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‘Organ donation must be discussed in every living room’
Times of India The Act made it possible for transplantation to occur in a well-organized and legal manner, and paved the way for donation of organs after brain death (cadaver organ donation). Before the Act, the definition of death in India only included cessation of … |
Liver Transplant Patients Have High Rates of Metabolic SyndromeNewswise (press release)The study is published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation So…
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Running Away from TB Treatment
Truth-Out Srinagar, India – Twenty-three-year-old Haleema (not her real name) was not the first female patient at Srinagar’s Chest Diseases Hospital in the Indian state of Kashmir to try to run away. While undergoing treatment in the … Worried that the … |
Blacks hospitalized for heart failure more oftenReuters IndiaNEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Black patients with heart failure were more likely to be hospitalized for complications of the disease than whites with heart failure, in a new study. They also te…
Blacks hospitalized for heart failure more oftenReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Black patients with heart failure were more likely to be hospitalized for complications of the disease than whites with heart failure, in a new study. They also tended t…
German researchers Hans-Gert Bernstein and colleagues write:Discover Magazine (blog)Unfortunately, the well documented and replicated influence of heart failure on the outcome of brain volume measurements is largely ignored in postmortem brain studies….
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First Patient Treated with Civacir® after Hepatitis C Induced Liver …
MarketWatch (press release) Civacir, a 10 % hepatitis C hyperimmune globulin developed and produced at Biotest Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Biotest AG, is being used in a clinical trial in North America in patients undergoing liver transplantation as … Biotest commences phase III trial of hepatitis C therapyZenopa |