Committee to monitor organ transplant proposedDeccan HeraldCommittee to monitor organ transplant proposed. Bangalore, Jan 15, 2013, DHNS: The Department of Health and Family Welfare has proposed to constitute an advisory committee to assist and monitor…
The Abdominal Organ Transplant Program of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has reached two important milestones – both the 200th pancreas transplant and the 2,500th kidney transplant were performed in December 2012.
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Economist Intelligence Unit Report Calls for Global Policy Innovation to …
PharmaLive (press release) (subscription) 2 HCV is also the leading cause of liver transplantation worldwide 1 and in the US the disease now accounts for more deaths than HIV. 1. ” The report highlights that worldwide, despite the significant burden of HCV, governments have failed to get a … |
In virtually any sport, there’s an athlete who tested boundaries, competing despite overwhelming physical odds. Here are the stories of five athletes who played professional or Olympic sports after receiving organ transplants:
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Grapevine: Giving life – a family affair
Jerusalem Post He established Matnat Chaim (gift of life), which not only encourages organ donation but also helps both donor and recipient through all the bureaucratic hassles. □ MANY JEWISH boys raised in the Soviet Union missed out on having a bar mitzva. |
Link between obesity and kidney transplant may sideline applicable patients …PhysBizTechFor the authors, the BMI measure must be reassessed in further study and a new upper limit established so that patients with obesity, who stand to inherit more ne…
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Publisher Milner-Fenwick Partners with the American Association of Heart …
Newswise (press release) Newswise — Hunt Valley, MD — January 15, 2013 – Milner-Fenwick, a multi-media publisher for the healthcare community, and the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN) announced a partnership which includes the AAHFN’s endorsement … |
PNEUMONIA is the leading cause of death in Davao City for two straight years, according to the City Health Office (CHO) on Tuesday. Records from the CHO revealed that the disease has been ranked as number one among the top 10 leading causes of mortalit…
Seventeen-year-old Haley Wilson has not let the need for a kidney transplant slow her down.
Partial Nephrectomy PSMs Do Not Raise Death RiskRenal and Urology NewsPositive surgical margins (PSMs) after partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are more common than previously reported, but they have no significant effect on five-year s…