BioVentrix receives CE Mark for less invasive device to treat congestive heart …MedCity NewsA San Ramon, California start-up has received regulatory clearance to market its less invasive therapy for treating congestive heart failure. BioVentrix annou…
Make-A-Wish: Ryan's storyTurn to 10Ryan needed a second round of chemo, plus a stem-cell transplant. The procedure was done at Boston Children's Hospital. "So we go to this stem-cell transplant thing that you've only heard about. I don…
Stem cell transplant boosts function slightly in Parkinson's monkeysLos Angeles TimesIn a small but hopeful step for researchers working on therapies to treat Parkinson's disease, a team in Japan has used stem cells harvested from bone marrow t…
Spectrum Health expects to perform its first lung transplant within the next two months, said the doctor who is leading the program.
Donations for political partiesKashmir TimesThese figures of political parties' income in this period do not include the donations or income below Rs 20,000 and hence a large number of donations are not incorporated in it. Interestingly, the two ma…
Scientific American (blog)The Death of “Near Death”: Even If Heaven Is Real, You Aren't Seeing ItScientific American (blog)Alexander claimed that because his neocortex was “inactivated” by this malady, his near death visions indicated an in…
Aside from some challenges, Harry Drake is a happy, active, carefree boy whose life was saved with a bone marrow transplant at UCSF.
Stem Cell Banks Envisioned for Regenerative MedicineBioscience TechnologyHLA matching is unlikely to solve all of the immune rejection issues that may arise with stem cell transplantation, Rao explained, but new strategies being developed to prevent tr…
When Peggy Hemmens’ kidney began to fail, she expected a long wait for a transplant. The 60-year-old Aurora resident already had undergone a kidney transplant eight years before and knew she carried antibodies that would make 80 to 90 percent of livi…
Authorities searching for an 11-year-old cancer patient whose mother sneaked her out of a Phoenix hospital say the girl could die if she doesn’t get immediate medical attention.