Pfizer and Teva are the largest branded and generic pharmaceutical companies, respectively, as measured by revenue and both reported lower quarterly profits Thursday. The results are connected, due to patent litigation between the companies.
Researchers in Japan report that health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for donors following living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) was better than the general Japanese population (the norm). This study—one of the largest to date—found that dono…
China's Reliance On Executed Prisoners' Organs Will Wind Down Next YearHuffington Post… violating personal, religious or cultural beliefs. China's trial of a national organ donation system aimed at reducing the country's dependence on…
Emergent advances leukemia therapy to next trial stageGazette.Net: Maryland Community News OnlineThe trial, which will enroll about 24 patients who have not been treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, is designed to test the safety and efficacy of T…
Marion man faces felony child-abuse chargesAsheville Citizen-TimesThe child's family requested the girl's organs be donated, and physicians conducted a series of tests to determine brain-death and obtain her organs, Mission said in a release. A…
McDowell County child abuse investigation: child remains in critical condition …Mountain XpressIn order to obtain the organs, Mission Children's Hospital physicians needed to determine brain death. There is a very specific and prescribed battery …
Acute Rejection Timing Has No Effect on Graft SurvivalRenal and Urology NewsThe study included 1,067 renal transplant recipients at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, Korea, of whom 278 (26.1%) had biopsy-proven acute rejection and 789 (73.9%) had no acu…
Varun has the heart of a collectorTimes of IndiaLUDHIANA: Varun Khullar of Nitish Vihar in Dugri, Phase II sure knows how to follow his heart. Varun nurtured his fondness for coins and foreign currency by transforming it into an art. Today, he is the p…
Pre- and Post-Dialysis BP Predicts Survival after TransplantationRenal and Urology NewsSAN DIEGO—Low diastolic blood pressure (BP) before, and low systolic BP after, hemodialysis sessions are associated with a reduced risk of death following renal tr…
Examiner.comUCLA receives American Heart Association Heart Failure Care RewardExaminer.comRonald Reagan UCLA Medical Center consistently is the recipient of numerous awards for its outstanding level of care. On October 31, the medical center announced …