General Surgery NewsSleeve Improves Transplant Candidacy in Morbidly ObeseGeneral Surgery NewsBy the time of their transplant, their mean BMI had dropped to 31 kg/m 2. Transplant patients did not experience negative effects from the bariatric surgery. …
FDA Awards UC $2.7 Million GrantThe News RecordThe study aims to end questions concerning the differences between generic and brand-name versions of tacrolimus, common immunosuppressive drugs, used to help post-transplant patients accept their new orga…
Too many readmissions to cost hospitalsAtlanta Journal ConstitutionReadmissions costly to hospitals photo. Jason Getz, jgetz@ajc.com. Physician Assistant Jennifer Matthews, left, talks with patient Robert Garofalo, of Woodstock, at the Heart Failure Cl…
Utah man holds bake sales to pay for liver transplant By kirsten stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 21, 2012 06:10PM MDT Editor’s note: This is a part of a package of stories about Utahns and medical debt. See Relates Stories box at left. Bo…
Economic TimesVirtual Liver may be cure for drug failures in clinical trialsEconomic TimesBANGALORE: Kalyanasundaram Subramanian had lost count of the number of times pharma firms had asked him: "Do you have a good model for predicting drug toxici…
Twenty years ago a middle-aged woman from Girrawheen was pictured on the front page of The West Australian, excitedly waiting for a heart transplant that she hoped would give her a few more years of life to see her teenage son grow up.
FIFA secretary Valcke released from hospital in BrazilTimes of IndiaRIO DE JANEIRO: FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has been released from a Brazilian hospital after recovering from a kidney infection. FIFA says Valcke returned home to Switzerland…
Blood donation at Ram Lal Paul Higher Secondary SchoolE-Pao.netImphal, October 21 2012: A voluntary blood donation com awareness campaign was conducted today at Ram Lal Paul Higher Secondary School. The programme was organised by Malem Care Foundation,…
Physicians can help heart patients 80% of the timeTimes of IndiaNAGPUR: Cardiologists believe that many a times a heart patient can manage his health well by consulting his family physician rather than rushing to a specialist. Not only will this make t…
Renal transplant performed at MCH