Daily MailSchoolgirl, 16, who thought she had indigestion suffered heart failure caused …Daily MailShe then saw another doctor who sent her for a scan, which revealed she was in fact suffering heart failure and was just days from death. Jessica Smith…
OutlookThe SpecialistsOutlookThe case in India, though, is not the same. Only 70,000 of the 1 million kidney failure patients in the country have access to dialysis — there is such a shortage of dialysis machines that even people who can afford it ar…
Diabetes leading cause of kidney disease, says Redcop coordinatorPhilippine Information AgencyThis was the statement of Dr. Michael U. Abutazil, renal transplantation head of the Western Mindanao Medical Center (WMMC) in Zamboanga City and regional Ren…
A new medical procedure involving pumping fecal matter into one's colon is saving one woman's life.
Apple a day helps stave off heart diseases: studyBusiness StandardEating an apple everyday can stave off the risk of heart diseases, a new study has found. People who consumed one apple a day for four weeks were found to have 40 per cent lower blood le…
Hannah Mae Campbell is shown before heart transplant surgery. Everett's Jennifer Campbell dozes with 4-month-old daughter Hannah Mae at Seattle Children's Hospital shortly before the infant had heart transplant surgery on Sept. 24.
Congestive Heart Failure EducationEast Valley TribuneHeart failure affects five million people in the U.S. and the disease is on the rise. Evidence suggests that patients and their caregivers who are well educated on managing the condition experience a…
In a study to investigate the detection by MRI of six kinds of positively-charged magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles designed to help monitor transplanted islet cells, a team of Japanese researchers found that the charged nanoparticles they developed tr…
Heart transplant for 4-month-old Everett girl a successHeraldNetPhoto by Nancy Gilmore. Everett's Jennifer Campbell dozes with 4-month-old daughter Hannah Mae at Seattle Children's Hospital shortly before the infant had heart transplant surgery…
Organ donor's family funds new ICU waiting roomWindsor StarA waiting room at the Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital was officially opened Tuesday in memory of Trevor Funkenhauser. His parents Gunther and Judith Funkenhauser, left, greet Patrick Muldoon, who…