This Week in Lancet OncologyGenomeWebThe team assigned 72 melanoma patients with brain metastases — 51 of whom were neurologically asymptomatic and were not receiving corticosteroid treatment and 21 of whom were symptomatic and on a stable dose of co…
Dx Focus: Quest Simplexa C. Diff Assay Gets FDA OK; XDx Begins AlloMap Testing …GenomeWebAlloMap is a non-invasive blood test that helps physicians to determine a stable heart transplant patient's risk of acute cellular rejection without using en…
Thousands who would benefit from kidney transplant being denied chance for consideration.
Sydney Morning HeraldDeath for a life: inside the donor dilemmaSydney Morning HeraldThe real bottleneck, in Bendorf's assessment, is that relatively fewer Australians are treated in intensive care units right through to the point of brain death – w…
MedPage TodayIL-6 Blocker Stops RA Joint DamageMedPage TodayThe authors noted that it remains to be seen if other biologics such as rituximab (Rituxan) and abatacept (Orencia) also have these dissociative effects on radiographic and clinical outcomes. …
New York Daily NewsLiz Cho goes into the OR, for organ donor storyNew York Daily News“It was very much a part of my life growing up,” she says of organ donation. “Connected for Life” airs Saturday at 7 pm It eyes how New York lags in donations …
CBS LocalOrgan Donation Program Coordinator Hopes For Long Shot For KidneyCBS LocalVikki Tulcus, coordinator of the Organ Donor Program at the Illinois Secretary of State's Office, is herself in need of a kidney transplant. (Credit: Steve Miller/WB…
Overwhelming public response leads to extension in organ donation campaignPakistan ObserverKarachi—More than 500 people, from cross section of society, having pledged to donate their organs after death, in first five days of the ongoing week long nat…
Sanghavi Exports organises blood donation campDiamond World MagazineSanghavi Exports International Pvt. Ltd., a leading diamond manufacturing company and a DTC Sightholder conducted a voluntary blood donation camp in Surat, Gujarat. The camp is an annu…
New York Daily NewsHeart transplant recipient crusades to boost organ donor numbersNew York Daily NewsRoxanne Watson of Spring Valley, who received a life-saving heart transplant a year ago last July, has dedicated her 'second life' to promotin…