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Astellas reports FDA approval of anti-rejection drug
NephrologyNews.com The drug is used with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and corticosteroids, with or without basiliximab induction. “Each transplant recipient is different and requires a personalized treatment approach,” said Sef Kurstjens, MD, PhD., chief medical officer … |
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CAMC Raising Organ Donation Awareness
WCHS CAMC Raising Organ Donation Awareness. An organ donor can change lives and no one knows that more than Nefeterius McPherson, a Texas native who has a special connection to the Mountain State thanks to a donor. On November 6, 2011, McPherson’s … |
Baltimore Humane Society will hold blood donation for dogsCarroll County TimesThe Blue Ridge Veterinary Blood Bank will be holding a blood donation session Saturday but they will not take human blood. Instead, Blue Ridge will hold the session at the Ba…
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Dispute over organ donation brings attention to defining death
Columbus Dispatch The death of 21-year-old Elijah Smith at Grant Medical Center this month and his family’s dispute with Lifeline of Ohio over his organ donation has brought to the forefront questions about what constitutes death. Most doctors agree that a person has … |
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‘Train docs on brain death protocol’
The Hindu However, certification of brain death is still relatively low among hospitals owing to multiple factors, the primary one being a lack of awareness about the protocol among medical professionals. For instance, last year, a city hospital accounted for 48 … |
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Research: Some African American liver recipients fare better with organ from …
The Advocate “Hep C is a huge problem in New Orleans,” said Shores, who also is medical director of liver transplantation at Tulane Medical Center. “More African-Americans suffer from it, as do those in (other) large Southern cities, so all those rates come … |
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Big Mike’s Memorial Run raises organ donor awareness
Canton Repository Members of Micheal Todd Kerr gather at “Big Mike’s Memorial Bike Run” on Sunday in Green. Seated on the bike is dad, Joe Kerr and Taylor Kerr, Mike’s niece. Standing, from left, is Mike sister Kristen (Taylor’s mom), brother-in-law and sister Tim and … |
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Heart transplant recipient works to help others live full lives
Las Vegas Review-Journal Yet even Ham, the medical director for both the Nevada Donor Network and University Medical Center’s kidney transplantation program, admits he has a difficult time believing how normally Simon Keith — the 48-year-old chief operating officer of the … |
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BioDiem Limited shows “proof of principle” in liver disease vaccine program
Proactive Investors Australia … and liver cancer. In the U.S. alone there are an estimated 4.4 million people living with chronic hepatitis, most of which do not know they are infected – with viral hepatitis the leading cause of liver cancer and the most common reason for liver … |
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They are stealing kidneys in Kampala
The Standard Digital News Mathias Sekyewa is a Senior Six student who was languishing in brokenness when his campus friend introduced him to a quick fix — sell your kidney and save a life. He was soon introduced to an Indian ‘professor’ attached to a certain medical institute … |