Men at higher risk of kidney failure than women: studyBusiness StandardResearchers from the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada found that while there was 2.66 per cent risk of middle aged men developing kidney failure, women faced a lower risk a…
Biomarkers Predict Liver Transplant FailureGenetic Engineering NewsTwo different approaches to biomarker discovery have identified genetic and protein markers that could help predict which hepatitis C patients undergoing liver transplantation are most …
Mom seeks heart transplant for autistic sonThe Associated Press… success of the surgery itself and over the longer term, as well as the potential interaction between a patient's existing drug therapies and the drugs that would be necessary to sto…
British Grandpa gets world's first battery-powered heart pumpBusiness StandardBarry Wade was left with advanced heart failure after a scuba diving accident eight years ago and doctors at Wythenshawe Hospital had already tried corrective surgery, bu…
JDRF, in collaboration with The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (HCT), announced today that it has finalized a grant in the area of islet cell encapsulation to Dr. Camillo Ricordi, M.D. and a team of investigators at the Diabetes Resear…
Atlanta Journal ConstitutionMom seeks heart transplant for autistic sonAtlanta Journal Constitution… success of the surgery itself and over the longer term, as well as the potential interaction between a patient's existing drug therapies and the …
What's your risk of developing kidney failure?Deccan HeraldAccordingly, from 1997 to 2008 Tanvir Chowdhury Turin and Brenda Hemmelgarn, from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and colleagues studied 2.89 million adult residents free of kidn…
Kyle Bailey was very lucky to get a lung transplant (“Port Huron lung transplant recipient completes 214-mile trek,” Aug. 6). There now are more than 114,000 people on the National Transplant Waiting List. More than 50% of these people die before t…
After adult autistic son denied heart transplant, Pennsylvania woman seeks to reverse decision
Haemonetics drives into blood donation marketBoston Business JournalHaemonetics Inc. wants to revolutionize a health care process that, until now, has been very low-tech: blood donation. The 2300-person company, based in Braintree, Mass., intends to do…