PN kidney cancer surgery not being used for older, sicker and poorer uninsured …News-Medical.netThe treatment, partial nephrectomy (PN), involves surgically removing only the diseased portion of a cancerous kidney, leaving the unaffected part to cont…
Benefit of inhaled corticosteroids for sinusitis smallClinical AdvisorHealthDay News — For patients with acute sinusitis, inhaled corticosteroids provide a small benefit over placebo but only after several weeks, results of a meta-analysis suggest. Th…
( Oregon Health & Science University ) Multiple myeloma patients are better equipped to halt progression of this blood cancer if treated with lenalidomide, or Revlimid, following a stem cell transplant, according to a study co-authored by a physician w…
Lenalidomide prolongs disease control for multiple myeloma patients after stem …EurekAlert (press release)Multiple myeloma patients are better equipped to halt progression of this blood cancer if treated with lenalidomide, or Revlimid®, following a …
Leukaemia survivor joins Midnight WalkEssex County StandardMise Knighton's life was saved by chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant. She is now recovering and is taking part in St Helena Hospice's Midnight Walk. Mise, who is 26, went to the do…
Turkish Press Review (May 16, 2012)Journal of Turkish WeeklyTurkish daily newspapers covered in Wednesday editions face transplant surgery, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's criticism about super final cup ceremony, and the accident in the cons…
One-Year EVOLVE Trial Clinical Results Confirm Comparable Safety And …Sacramento BeeBy Boston Scientific Corporation NATICK, Mass., May 15, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announces that the SYNERGY™ Everolimus-Elu…
Minnetronix Enters Licensing Agreement with Penn StateEON: Enhanced Online News (press release)(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Minnetronix announced today the exclusive licensing rights of Penn State Research Foundation's wireless energy transmission …
Something is rotten in the state of organ transplantation in Memphis. Our city is in danger of losing access to many of the organs that are donated in Tennessee for transplant; as a result, lives could be lost. As a native West Tennessean, I am deeply …
HOUSTON—The FDA is expected to fully approve a heart device for use without a transplant in weeks. Syncardia is a pump implanted in place of the heart powered by a backpack-sized driver so the patient able to leave the hospital and lead a nearly norm…