Scotsman (blog)Tied to the desk job – Steve Adey on his latest albumScotsman (blog)“Last year I went travelling in India, saw some amazing sights and caught some interesting diseases,” he says. He makes a joke about this but the Polycythemia, … T…
Madison Taliaferro, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 2, had the surgery on Nov. 5 at St. Louis Children's Hospital. She recently was discharged from the hospital but has to stay in St. Louis with her parents, Desiree and Mike Taliaferr…
East County MagazineFDA APPROVES PUMP FOR HEART FAILURE PATIENTS AWAITING HEART …East County MagazineNovember 24, 2012 (San Diego) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the HeartWare Ventricular Assist System, a left ventricular ass…
OUT OF THE PAST: Remembering the epidemic of polioThe News HeraldThe sugar cubes with pink dots? Or the terrible sounding apparatus known as the “iron lung?” … He worked 10 years on developing an inoculation in which -24 little brown monkeys from…
APLA Looks Toward a Cure in "HIV Matters" Town Hall ForumEDGEOnTheNetDoctors declared Brown "cured" soon after this blood stem cell transplant. "In recent clinical trials, we've produced HIV-resistant T cells in patients wh…
Researchers from New Zealand and Australia are at the forefront of making corneal transplants possible. Strides made towards corneal transplants Corneal transplants, stem cells, national eye centre, charles mcghee
12 year-old Madison Taliaferro of Topeka suffers from cystic fibrosis
Daily MailA horrific car crash left her locked in a face that couldn't move… then …Daily MailEven when a diagnosis is made and patients are offered one of the main types of treatments – physiotherapy, injections such as Botox to relax overact…
Jill Wolford's cancer battle leads to a broader effortNews & ObserverAfter her initial shock, she settled into the nine-month treatment that included chemotherapy, radiation and a stem cell transplant. Eventually, both of her breasts and her ovarie…
Life After DeathKanglaOnlineIt is reported that the first human liver transplant also took place in USA in 1963. Pancreas Transplantation was first reported in the late 1960s. At present, it is available as a standard form of therapy in many developed …