AFPHeart failure patients benefit from new device till transplantNews-Medical.netThe largest single-center study of patients implanted with a total artificial heart finds the device may help patients in severe heart failure survive until they can recei…
Economic TimesTen stocks in focus in Friday morning tradeEconomic TimesCox & Kings Ltd: Travel company Cox & Kings today announced that along with online travel site Ezeego1.com it has formed a marketing alliance with Canada-based G Adventures …
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Illinois cautious with Duchene’s arm
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette Journell — a 1999 second-team All-American and fourth-round draft choice by the St. Louis Cardinals — eventually required elbow ligament-transplant surgery. However, Hartleb indicated that Duchene is experiencing soreness in a different area of the … |
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Insurance company says it will cover Groton teacher’s kidney transplant
TheDay.com When he and his wife Katy questioned the financial counselor for transplant surgery about what that meant, they said they were told that meant there was 100 percent coverage. Thursday afternoon, one day after U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., … |
Pitt to study depression, heart failure connectionPittsburgh Post GazetteDoctors working on that medical chicken-or-egg issue long have realized an association between heart failure and depression. But questions still remain whether successful treatmen…
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FDA Panel Rejects Novartis Drug for Heart Failure
Wall Street Journal Novartis said it had presented its best evidence gathered thus far, but it plans to continue with the drug serelaxin because of the “urgent patient need.” Drugs for acute heart failure have generally been very disappointing. The vote by the outside … Novartis Heart Failure Drug Fails to Win FDA Panel BackingBloomberg FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Against Approval Of Novartis Heart Failure …Forbes |
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FDA panel votes against Novartis drug for acute heart failure
Yahoo News (Reuters) – A drug made by Novartis AG to treat acute heart failure should not be approved because there is insufficient evidence it improves symptoms, a panel of advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded on Thursday. The panel’s vote … |
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Schiavo family honors parents of brain-dead Calif. girl
Insurance News Net (press release) March 28– The family of Jahi McMath, the 13- year old California girl whose parents refused to accept a finding of brain death, was honored for courage and perseverence Thursday night at the Union League by the family of Terri Schiavo. It has been a … Mother of brain-dead Jahi McMath says daughter is ‘still sleeping’Los Angeles Times Mother of Brain-Dead California Girl: ‘She is Asleep’WRCB-TV Jahi McMath’s mother says daughter is ‘asleep’ and shows signs of lifeTheCelebrityCafe.com Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia all 18 news articles » |
Study finds dermatologists widely prescribe steroids for psoriasisWinston-Salem JournalA new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center finds that dermatologists widely prescribe systemic corticosteroids for psoriasis management, despite the fact th…
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GALLERY: Bunbury rally protests coal exports on Koombana Beach
Bunbury Mail I don’t want coal to contribute further to the planet’s carbon debt and I don’t want my home town to be known as the black lung of the south.” – Deputy mayor Brendan Kelly. Owned by Indian mining giant Lanco, Griffin Coal plans to export 15 million … |