French TribuneClassical Music Slows Organ Transplant Rejection In MiceHuffington PostBy Sophie Bushwick Opera and classical music can relax you – and maybe your immune system, if results with mice extend to us. Because mice that got heart transplants…
ABC News (blog)EXCLUSIVE: The Story Behind Cheney's Heart Transplant SurgeryABC News (blog)About an hour later, Cheney was at the hospital preparing for heart transplant surgery. The surgery, which started at 10am Saturday was over by 5pm, about 17…
thejournal.ieCalls for organ donor registry in Irelandthejournal.ieMark Murphy, Chief Executive of the Irish Kidney Association, made the announcement at the National Launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week 2012. Last year was a record year for organ dona…
ABC News (blog)Cheney able to stand after heart transplant surgeryReutersWASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – Former US Vice President Dick Cheney is doing well after undergoing heart transplant surgery over the weekend, a spokeswoman for his family said o…
USA TODAYFDA Approves 'Dry' Nasal Spray for AllergyWebMDLiquid forms of this and other intranasal corticosteroids have been available for years. But many patients don't like them, says Gary Gross, MD, co-founder of the Dallas Allergy & …
Blood test for kidney transplant rejection now availableModernMedicineQuest Diagnostics (Madison, NJ) recently announced the availability of a molecular blood test for identifying renal organ-transplant rejection. The Renal Transplant Monitoring labora…
Seattle Genetics Announces Pivotal ADCETRIS™ (Brentuximab Vedotin) Hodgkin …MarketWatch (press release)ADCETRIS is being evaluated in a phase III clinical trial (the AETHERA trial) for patients at high risk of residual Hodgkin lymphoma following au…
Immunotherapy associated with improved seizure outcomes among patients with …PhysOrg.com"Certainly trials as to which immunotherapy (steroids, intravenous immunoglobulin, cyclosporine, rituximab) is best would be ethical. We need an increased ap…
Antibody Overcomes Defenses For Wide Range Of CancersInternational Business TimesAnother treatment, rituximab, targets a protein primarily found on the surfaces of B cells and is used to treat lymphoma, leukemia and other blood and bone marrow cancers …
Opera and Classical Music Linked to Better Recoveries for PatientsBecker’s Hospital ReviewResearchers randomly assigned a group of mice to five groups, which were each exposed to different genres of music during heart transplantation: no music, opera, …