Warming up to cadaver transplantsTimes of IndiaTwo hospitals – Assured Best Care (ABC) at Annamalai Nagar and Cauvery Medical Centre at Thennur – have been authorized by the government to perform kidney transplantations. Both these hospitals have handl…
Livonia City Councilman's kidney transplant surgery a successHometownlife.comLivonia City Councilman Tom Robinson was recovering at University of Michigan Hospital Wednesday following a successful kidney transplant. “The surgeon was happy with th…
Anaconda had lung, heart ailmentsTimes of IndiaThe zoo has attributed heart failure and anorexia as the reasons for the sudden death of the female anaconda in January. It had said that autopsy revealed severe adhesion and necrosis around the heart regi…
New York Times (blog)China Fights to Go Beyond Organs Harvested From Executed PrisonersNew York Times (blog)HONG KONG — A senior official with the Chinese Ministry of Health says the country must end its dependence on organs taken from executed priso…
Indian Academy of Paediatrics demand inclusion of pneumonia vaccine in …Times of IndiaShe said infants, neonates, premature babies between 24-59 months with underdeveloped lungs, narrow airways, poor nutrition and immature immune system are at high r…
A 6-year-old Colorado Springs boy with a rare blood disease is headed to Minnesota for a bone marrow transplant.
Diuretics Best Ultrafiltration in Heart FailureMedPage TodayExplain that ultrafiltration was not found to be superior to stepped diuretic treatment in patients with decompensated heart failure with cardiorenal syndrome. Note that creatinine levels were…
AFPA simpler way to predict heart failureHealthCanal.comHouston, TX – The most widely used models for predicting heart failure rely on a complex combination of lifestyle, demographic, and cardiovascular risk factor information. But today Vijay Nambi, M…
NewsdayHeart Failure Patients May Be at Higher Risk for Cancer: StudyNewsdayMoreover, cancer appeared to increase the risk of death in heart failure patients by 46 percent, according to lead researcher Dr. Tal Hasin, with the cardiology department at t…
Blood donation and health awareness camp tomorrowOman Daily ObserverSALALAH — A blood donation-cum-health awareness camp is to be held in Salalah tomorrow. The camp is being organised jointly by the Tamil and Charity wings of the Indian Social Club S…