VetPracticeNews.comNew Drug Shows Promise In Heart PatientsVetPracticeNews.comBy Lou Anne Epperley, DVM The fundamentals of treating congestive heart failure in dogs and cats have not changed appreciably over the years, but one fairly new drug along wi…
Westfield Mom Serves as Living Liver Donor for DaughterPatch.comAccording to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, in 2010, over 18000 individuals in the United States were waiting for liver transplantation. But just over 6000 livers from deceased donors beco…
HDL to offer testing services based on Critical Diagnostics' Presage ST2 AssayNews-Medical.netThe Presage ST2 Assay was recently cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration for use in assessing the prognosis of patients diagnosed with chronic he…
New algorithm can help ED physicians to reduce number of heart failure deathsNews-Medical.netPhysicians can reduce the number of heart failure deaths and unnecessary hospital admissions by using a new computer-based algorithm developed at the Institute…
Ray Jonasson is back to health after a liver transplant and running the race that took him down.
Tampa General Hospital is the only local hospital with a transplant center, so many patients travel long distances to get there.
MP renews calls for blood donation centresABC OnlineThe Opposition has renewed its call for more blood donation options in regional Western Australia. After the closure of the Broome and Geraldton centres, people in the north of the state have to trave…
A Wichita hospital has announced that it is suspending its kidney transplant program and ordering an independent review after learning of the deaths of four patients who received kidney transplants in the last year.
LifeNews.comNo to Human Organ Farms!National Right to Life NewsA new protocol is proposed whereby after a donor family agrees to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments, premortem nephrectomy is performed in advance of end-of-life management. Since ne…
Bristol-Myers Squibb Presents New 4-Year Data from the Long-Term Extensions of …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)SCD kidneys were defined as organs from a deceased donor with anticipated cold ischemia time (CIT) of <24 hours and not meetin…