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Toddler William Morris saved by stem cell transplant
BBC News A seriously ill toddler from County Durham has had a life-saving stem cell transplant after a match was found in the US. Eighteen-month-old William Morris from Chester-le Street has leukaemia, but has been treated with blood stem cells taken from an … Tot’s life-saving transplantSunderland Echo |
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Amid border tensions, Indian doctors aid Pakistani patients
Deccan Herald Unlike during the 2012 trip, this time the Indian doctors only oversaw the “right lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation” on one woman and two male Pakistani patients, conducted by their own doctors. “It is a highly complex operation … |
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Iowa Witnesses the Longest Kidney Transplant Chain
TopNews Arab Emirates … process; else, they would have had to wait for long years. As of now, there are as much as 532 people waiting for kidneys, and that’s what makes it all the more imperative that more and more efforts are made to address the rising concern of organ … |
Doctors told relatives of McKenzie Croft-Haworth, who suffers from polycystic kidney disorder, that the chances of finding a suitable kidney donor were practically zero.
A new treatment for kidney disease-associated heart failure?Science CodexChronic kidney disease (CKD) patients frequently suffer from mineral bone disorder, which causes vascular calcification and, eventually, chronic heart failure. Similar to patients…
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Amid border tensions, Indian doctors aid Pakistani patients
Punjab Newsline NEW DELHI: When Pakistani raiders were beheading Indian soldiers, a group of Indian doctors were helping their Pakistani counterparts to do complex liver transplants in Lahore. The doctors from Delhi’s Apollo Hospital spent long hours in the surgery … |
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Amid border tensions, Indian doctors aid Pakistani patients
Khaleej Times Unlike during the 2012 trip, this time the Indian doctors only oversaw the “right lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation” on one woman and two male Pakistani patients, conducted by their own doctors. “It is a highly complex operation … |
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Organ donor begins donation chain
WBRC Organ donor begins donation chain. Posted: Saturday, January 12, 2013 5:05 AM EST. Updated: Saturday, January 12, 2013 5:11 AM EST. One man’s gift of life set a chain of organ donors for people in need. (Source: KCCI/CNN). DES MOINES, IOWA … DONOR CHAIN: 5 Kidney Donors, 5 RecipientsWHOTV.com |
Phase III data shows Novartis drug Afinitor benefits in non-cancerous tumours …pharmabiz.comNovartis announced that the data published in The Lancet shows that patients on Afinitor (everolimus) tablets with non-cancerous kidney tumours known as renal…
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Which Companies Are In Michael King’s Oncology Wheelhouse?
Seeking Alpha I think chemotherapy will continue be used and Rituxan [rituximab; administered via infusion] will continue to be used, but now the new drugs will begin to be used in the relapse/refractory patient population. Researchers are also starting to see … |