Last Chance: Organ Donation SeminarPatch.com“We'll be providing information about eye donations, helping people register for the state organ donation program,” Manger said. Last year, more than 40000 corneal transplants were performed in the Un…
Medtronic Says FDA OKs Expanded Indication For Cardiac Resynchronization TherapyNASDAQThe expanded indication includes New York Heart Association Class II heart failure patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction of less than or equal to 30 perc…
CTV.caProcedure worth the wait, lung transplant survivor saysCTV.caLung transplantation, which is made possible by organ donors, was Benson's ticket to a longer, fuller life. Now in her early 50s, she hopes a 20-year-old Ottawa woman who just under…
TopNews United StatesOrgan donor's surgery death sparks questionsNewsNet5.com"Since the inception of its live donor liver transplantation program in 1999, Lahey Clinic has performed more than 200 of these complex life saving surgical procedure…
Abbott's next-generation Xience Prime Drug Eluting Stent system gets Japanese …pharmabiz.comAbbott, a global, broad-based health care company, has received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for the next-gene…
Heart Failure Linked to Orthostatic HypotensionRenal and Urology NewsOrthostatic hypotension predicts incident heart failure among middle-aged adults, especially those aged 45-55 years old, researchers reported online ahead of print in Hypertension. In…
Biovest to Seek Marketing Approval for BiovaxID® Personalized Lymphoma Cancer …National PostWhile combination rituximab-chemotherapy regimens available today often induce tumor remissions in the early stages of treatment, these remissions seldom las…
TopNews United StatesOrgan donor's surgery death sparks questionsWISC Madison"Lahey Clinic and its transplant team are extremely saddened by the loss of a gentleman who died while donating a portion of his liver to his relative," Barrett …
Veteran grocer found comfort in God and songOrlando SentinelYet Zastoupil filled his life with civic activity, choir, hobbies and, not long before his death Friday at 92 from pneumonia and heart failure, the Orlando Magic. "All of us thought that,…
CBC.caA lung storyOttawa CitizenHélène Campbell has a lot of people rooting for her, as she recovers from her lung transplantation. And most have never even met her. Campbell is the 20-year-old Barrhaven woman who was diagnosed with a degenerative lu…