VetPracticeNews.comUnderstanding, Treating Chronic Kidney DiseaseVetPracticeNews.comBy Wendy Bedwell-Wilson Chronic kidney disease, one of the most common diseases among dogs and cats, involves the loss of functional renal tissue due to a prolonged, us…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — ChemoCentryx, Inc. , today announced the presentation of results from the Company's development program for CCX168, an investigational orally administered inhibitor of the complement …
COURAGEOUS teenage schoolboy Shaun Wilson-Miller died earlier today after a second heart transplant failed.
MP in blood donation callDaily EchoMeon Valley MP George Hollingbery is asking people to give blood in the run up to the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee after he donated a pint himself. Mr Holling-bery is O Rh D negative, a type shared by only around seve…
The Express TribuneFindings: Saheli died of heart failure, says autopsyThe Express TribuneThe heart of an elephant weighs up to 28 kilograms but beats much slower than that of other mammals. By APP An elephant's heart produces a strong, prolonged b…
Quote of the dayPeninsula On-lineDOHA: At least 41 Indians have died in Qatar this year of heart failure alone and many of them were young low-income workers who perished due to heat stroke. Figures released by the Indian embassy here yesterday suggest…
UCLA is launching the first face transplant program in the western United States. Doctors are now seeking patients to participate in clinical trials.
Blood donation camp at IIUI women campusPakistan Daily TimesIslamabad: In order to save the lives of thalassemic patients, the Pakistan Thalassemia Welfare Society on Friday held a blood donation camp at International Islamic University's women cam…
Imagine going from having no face to having someone else's face. Face transplantation is the process of removing part or all of a donor's face and attaching it onto a patient who has suffered devastating facial injury.
U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Arizona (May 25)Targeted News Service (subscription)ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 25 — Genomics USA, Hoffman Estates, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8183360) developed by four co-inventors for a "population scale HL…