The Star-Ledger – NJ.comBristol-Myers ends development of hepatitis C drug after test patient dies of …Washington PostNEW YORK — Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has scrapped a potential hepatitis C treatment after a patient participating in a te…
When kids gift life to parentsTimes of India"In the US, 90% of transplantation is done after the donor is declared brain dead (popularly known as cadaver). In India, donors are mostly biological relatives. The number of patients with kidney failur…
Higher Blood Sugar Helps Heart FailuredailyRxThe case may be different for diabetes patients with advanced heart failure, according to new research by Tamara Horwich, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles …
* Waiting to treat cytomegalovirus infections in transplant recipients until they reach a certain threshold is better than prophylactically treating all recipients. * Patients who were pre-emptively treated experienced less kidney scaring and better lo…
Waiting to treat the commonest viral infections in transplant recipients until they reach a certain threshold is better than prophylactically treating all recipients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American So…
Study reveals optimal treatment for most common infection after organ …Medical Xpress"In the view of short-term trial results, which favor CMV prophylaxis over pre-emptive strategy because of lower risk of acute rejection, we expected a translat…
John Glenn, 46, has been through seven years of physical hell starting with renal failure in 2008 followed by two pancreas transplants (the first one failed), heart attacks, two kidney transplants and a failing liver. He currently awaits a third transp…
Move to turn driving licences into organ donor cards wins support, but …Times of IndiaMUMBAI: The state government's soon-to-be-notified rules to boost cadaveric organ transplant got many bouquets in the medical fraternity, but some experts were …
To honor the one-year anniversary of her heart transplant, Webb is walking the Crim 5k with friends on Saturday.
Most people don’t give the simple act of breathing a second thought. It’s something taken for granted — until one no longer has the luxury of taking those seemingly simple breaths. People like Karen G