Rituximab does not appear to benefit children with INSNews-Medical.netThe drug rituximab, an antibody that targets the immune system and is often used to treat immune disorders such as lymphoma and arthritis, has recently emerged as a potential treatme…
MD NewsICD therapy significantly reduces mortality in patients with moderate heart …News-Medical.netSt. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced results of the SCD-HeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Tri…
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HUNDREDS of transplant athletes will travel to Sheffield next summer for the annual British Transplant Games, which are set to come to the city for the second time in five years.
A pending change in the way organs are distributed for transplants has touched off an increasingly bitter dispute between the Memphis area's leading transplant center and the local nonprofit group that procures kidneys, livers and pancreases from d…
SYMBICORT® (budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate) Long-Term Study Shows …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)Currently available data are inadequate to determine whether concurrent use of inhaled corticosteroids or other long-term asthma co…
A Portsmouth woman recently became the first person in New England to receive a new type of experimental heart transplant.
A Fallbrook man spoke to 10News about a kidney transplant that turned into a nightmare.
Two physicians want to do their part in continuing the Crossroads' growth – but in the name of medicine.
Turning morality on its headHaaretzSome Orthodox Jews do not accept that brain death constitutes death. They believe that a brain-dead body is a living human being so long as its heart is still beating, even if that's with the help of a ventilator….