Aging US to drive up heart-related health costs: studyChicago TribuneWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The costs linked to heart failure in the United States are expected to more than double within the next two decades as the population ages and treatments help p…
Back to Hospital after Stem Cell TransplantdailyRx64 percent of the children returned to the hospital at least once within six months of having a stem cell transplant. Children in the study were readmitted up to 11 times during the course of the study,…
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Majority of Children Readmitted to Hospital Following Stem Cell Transplant
Newswise (press release) Newswise — MIAMI–Nearly two-thirds of children receiving stem cell transplants returned to the hospital within six months for treatment of unexplained fevers, infections or other problems, according to a study performed at Dana-Farber/Children’s … Study: Pediatric Readmission Rate 2X Higher After Stem Cell Transplant From …Becker’s Hospital Review Back to Hospital after Stem Cell TransplantdailyRx |
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Lupus Drugs in Pregnancy Won’t Harm Offspring – MedPage Today
MedPage Today Among nearly 300 children whose mothers had lupus, a total of 14% had been hospitalized for serious infections, and of those hospitalized, 38% had been exposed in utero to azathioprine compared with 62% who had not been exposed, according to Mary … |
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Kidneys from felons? Prisoner organ donation spurs debate
Deseret News But according to the National Organ Donor Registry, 117,784 people are waiting for an organ in the U.S. Eighteen die each day while waiting. Almost 2 million people are incarcerated in prisons across the nation, and dozens are executed each year — a … |
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Antibodies to perform Saturday at family-friendly ‘Music at the Shoals’ event
Spartanburg Herald Journal The Spartanburg community is invited to the family-friendly “Music at the Shoals” concert, featuring the local band the Antibodies, at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Cole Family Amphitheatre at Wofford College’s Goodall Environmental Studies Center at Glendale. |
Study: Pediatric Readmission Rate 2X Higher After Stem Cell Transplant From …Becker’s Hospital ReviewPediatric patients who received a stem cell transplant using donated stem cells had a readmission rate twice that of patients who received their own …
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Fighting bacteria with a new genre of antibodies
Eureka! Science News Their inspiration was the antibodies that the immune system produces when microbes invade the body. Those antibodies patrol the body for microbes and bind to their surfaces, triggering a chain of events in which the body’s immune system attacks and … |
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US Heart Failure Costs Could Skyrocket: Report
U.S. News & World Report That means that by 2030, every U.S. taxpayer could be paying $244 a year to care for heart failure patients, according to the American Heart Association policy statement. It said the findings highlight the need for strategies to prevent and treat heart … Costs to treat heart failure expected to more than double by 2030 – Medical XpressMedical Xpress Durham University researchers find one in five care home patients may have …The Northern Echo ALMH Offers New Heart Failure Disease Management ProgramLincoln Courier |
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Brain-dead organ donor dashed across Atlantic to save others – Digital Journal
DigitalJournal.com Sima, a former nurse, and organ donor card carrier, had been in New Jersey for a week when she had a seizure said to have been caused by a previously undetected congenital defect in her blood vessels. She was declared brain-dead in New Jersey and … Trans-Atlantic dash fulfills organ donor’s wishesThe Times of Israel |