This week I’m at ICAAC (the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy), a massive infectious-disease and drugs meeting that is sponsored every year by the American Society for Microbiology.
Blood donation: Gov Aliyu Babangida sets the paceNigerian TribuneOn Tuesday, July 3, 2012, I went to the news stand at Iwo road area of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, to buy a copy of my favourite newspaper, The Nigerian Tribune because my vendor di…
Ilorin: Heart-related diseases on the increase -CMDNigerian TribuneChief Medical Director of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) Abdulwaheed Latinwo, has said that no fewer than 3,000 Nigerians go for medical treatment in India alone every mo…
Apollo performs complex bypass surgeryTimes of IndiaThe case was a high risk one in view of the poor condition of patient and his advanced age, poor pumping capacity of his heart (24%) and the long duration of the surgery, said his treating doctors. Su…
Just 23 months ago, Margaret Valsechi’s 26-year-old son Stephen died in an accident. In her grief, she decided to donate his organs for transplant.
'No malignancy risk' with biologic response modifiersNews-Medical.net… Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, USA, and colleagues identified 63 studies reporting safety data for a total of 29,423 RA patients treated with abatacept, adalimumab, anak…
Warning over sirolimus in HCV-positive liver transplantationNews-Medical.net"The results of this analysis suggest that mTOR inhibitors should be used with great caution in LT recipients with HCV infections," write Michael Charlton (Mayo Clini…
Partial nephrectomy technique cuts warm ischemiaModernMedicineA procedure designed to streamline robotic partial nephrectomy significantly reduces warm ischemia time (WIT) by nearly 25%, according to a recent analysis. The study, which was published on…
3 years after transplant, 115-kg woman has bariatric operationTimes of IndiaThe 45-year-old mother of three is possibly the first Indian to undergo a bariatric (or weight-loss) surgery after having undergone an equally major transplant surgery three ye…
CBC.ca7 Scientists Win Lasker Medical AwardsHuffington PostNEW YORK — Seven scientists have won prestigious medical awards for development of liver transplantation, discoveries about the inner workings of cells, and leadership in biomedical science. T…