When a 43-year-old female lung transplant patient arrived at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center in June 2011, the hospital's infection control team was on high alert. The woman carried a "superbug" resistant to all bu…
This is LeicestershireOrgan donation change could hurt West VirginiansCharleston GazetteCHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston Area Medical Center officials fear a policy change under consideration by a national organ donation agency would mean West Virginian…
LAYTON — Chris Yamamoto has been waiting for a new kidney for more than a year. He hopes the call for one will come through any day. The 43-year-old Clinton father of five has been battling diabetes since he was 20. Despite doing everything right —…
BBC NewsHeart failure implant operation trialled in UKBBC NewsA pioneering operation in Leicester to fit a nerve-stimulating implant in a patient with heart failure is due to finish around midday. Similar to a pacemaker, it is fitted to the vagus nerve…
Government needs to prevent forced organ donationsTimes of IndiaOrgan transplants are a sticky domain, where the government and doctors have to deal with difficult ethical issues that have no black-and-white solutions or answers. The government is boun…
A record number of organ transplants were carried out last year, health officials have revealed.
Patent Issued for Monitoring Hemodynamic Status Based on Intracardiac Or …Equities.comReporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) refers to a clinical syndrome…
No single strategy best for stage I follicular lymphomaCuretoday.com (press release)In the rigorously staged group, patients treated with either rituximab/chemotherapy or systemic chemo plus radiation had significantly better progression-free survival …
Fiji Broadcasting CorporationHeart patients ready for IndiaFiji TimesTWELVE-year-old Sera Liku barely speaks a word but her smile speaks volumes of her happiness that she will have a new lease of life after returning from India. After she found out she…
Alert staff douse fire at SoBo hospital ICUTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More … MUMBAI: A minor fire broke out at the Cumballa Hill Hospital and Heart Institute's intensive care unit on Wednesday evening, …