It was midnight when retired Navy Petty Officer Second Class Joyce Brillantes received the call in Chula Vista, Calif., that a kidney was waiting for her at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in Bethesda, Md. She had spent more than …
Preventing problems after cancerMedical Xpress… of those who survived childhood cancer to see which genetic biomarkers made the survivors more susceptible to developing common post-cancer complications, such as blood clots, hearing loss, kidney failu…
Stem cell procedure used for dogs; chow Cookie's the first in MiddleburgFlorida Times-UnionBy Jim Schoettler Owner Cheryl Pastore helps comfort her dog Cookie as vet technicians help restrain her so veterinarian Craig Price can draw blood for plasm…
Utah doctors perform rare tandem heart valve, liver transplant; surgery is 1st …The RepublicAP SALT LAKE CITY — Doctors at University of Utah Hospital have performed only the 10th liver and heart valve transplant in the world and the first using a …
New UK approval for HumiraPharma TimesFollowing approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Humira is now approved for use in the UK in such patients who have had an inadequate response to conventional therapy, including corticosteroids and 6-me…
MedPage TodayChemotherapy Proves Life-Saving for Some Leukemia Patients Who Fail Induction …Sacramento BeeThe largest study ever of such pediatric ALL patients identified a subset of young children who achieved 10-year survival rates of 72 percent af…
LA fire captain suffers heart failure while leading fitness classEnterprise-RecordOROVILLE — Flags at state fire stations throughout Butte County have been flying at half-staff since last week, in honor of a Los Angeles County firefighter who died of…
Transplantation bei Kindern: Blutgruppen-Inkompatibilität lässt sich überwindenPabst Science Publishers… parallel entfernte eine mehrfache Immunabsorption die (für Abstoßungen mitverantwortlichen) Isoagglutinine; und gleichzeitig wurde eine vier…
Biovest seeks Canadian marketing nod for its personalized lymphoma cancer …pharmabiz.comWhile combination rituximab-chemotherapy regimens available today often induce tumour remissions in the early stages of treatment, these remissions seldom last; m…
Scientists aim to develop new testing methods for drug-induced liver failureNews-Medical.netLiver damage caused by medicinal drugs is one of the most common reasons for liver failure and liver transplants in the Western world. Nevertheless, it is diffi…