FARGO – A double lung transplant could restore Jordan Peterson's childhood, which has been sidelined by major complications of an already devastating genetic disease. "I'd rather have a short and fun life than a long and boring life,"…
Home care better for heart failure6minutesHome-based care for patients with chronic heart failure leads to fewer days of hospitalisation and much lower healthcare costs compared to specialist clinic-based treatment, Australian researchers have found. R…
Uterus Transplant – Dr. Ash HanafyABC Online (blog)The world's first uterus transplant operations from mother to a daugther have been performed in Sweden. Gold Coast obstetrician Dr. Ash Hanafy was the only Australian doctor on the medical team who…
BioScholar NewsScientists prevent heart failure in miceBioScholar NewsCardiac stress, for example a heart attack or high blood pressure, frequently leads to pathological heart growth and subsequently to heart failure. Two tiny RNA molecules play a key …
Organised healthcare splinters into nichesDaily News & AnalysisWhile kidney care and dialysis centres are usually spread across 1,500-2,000 sq ft. Demand for them has risen as an estimated 2-3 lakh people develop kidney failure every year in India. Cha…
Giving Hope To Heart, KidneyLeadership NewspapersThe same statistics revealed that it cost an average of 12 pounds or $18,000 in the United States and Israel and about $12 in India to access treatment in the best government hospitals. Considering the c…
Liver transplant: Pims centre told to resume operationDAWN.comA senior physician treating liver patients at a private hospital added that many of “these patients have end-stage liver disease for which the only treatment is transplantation.” He said…
Take a 'pause', women's heart at riskDaily News & AnalysisIf you thought women were less vulnerable to heart ailments, think again. A recent report discussed in the World Congress of Cardiology this year said that cardiac diseases has incre…
MT. WASHINGTON, Ky. (WHAS11) — A young woman from Mt. Washington is in St. Louis Tuesday night awaiting a double lung transplant. Earlier in September I reported on Christena Gabehart Jones and her fight to get a second double lung transplant. Seven y…
Watch & Wait OK in Low-Tumor Burden Follicular LymphomaDoctors LoungeAn initial watch-and-wait strategy does not have a detrimental effect on the freedom from treatment failure or overall survival rate in selected patients with low-tumor burden fol…