Victoria AdvocateRelay for Life a time to honor and rememberVictoria Advocate"I'm no one real special," Kimball said from his hospital bed at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he underwent stem cell transplant surgery on April 1…
ForbesFDA Advisory Panel Gives Green Light To HeartWare Ventricular Assist SystemForbesThe FDA's Circulatory System Devices panel voted 9-2 on Wednesday to recommend approval of the HeartWare Ventricular Assist System as a bridge to heart transplan…
When Ray Fearing’s new kidney, donated by his sister, didn’t work out, doctors asked him if they could remove it and give it to someone else. He agreed, and now a 67-year-old Indiana man has the kidney in what became the first ever re-transplantati…
ForbesFDA Advisory Committee Votes in Favor of HeartWare® Ventricular Assist System …MarketWatch (press release)HeartWare remains committed to optimizing outcomes for patients with end-stage heart failure and looks forward to expanding the clinical …
WCSH-TVPotential donors rally in Orono to support warden in need to stem cell transplantBangor Daily NewsHe needs a stem cell transplant if he hopes to survive. And on Wednesday, a lot of people showed up at the fifth annual Jeff Cole Memorial Bone Mar…
Donors Rally Around Game Warden Searching For Stem Cell MatchWABIA successful match could lead to a potentially life saving stem cell transplant. A swab of the inside of your cheek is all it takes to check to see if you're a potential donor. Wednes…
White boosts Heartland organ donation driveWJBC NewsIllinois Secretary of State Jesse White speaks at Heartland Community College in Normal on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (Photo by Ryan Denham/WJBC) NORMAL – Secretary of State Jesse White challenged H…
Kidney Donation: How Do You Match Up?Huffington Post (blog)An HLA typing laboratory determines antigens for each transplant patient and catalogs them into three different types: HLA-A, HLA-B and HLA-DR. The genes for these unique antigens are found on …
Updated Measures Assess Heart Failure CareFamily Practice News Digital NetworkA set of nine performance measures aimed at assessing whether adults with heart failure are receiving the best care was issued by the American College of Cardiology Foundatio…
Financial Post (blog)Sign an organ-donation card, and save a lifeMontreal GazetteThey stress that it is never too soon or too late to be an organ donor; recent Canadian donors have ranged in age from seniors approaching 90 to babies only a few days old…