Inhaled Beclomethasone Bests Fluticasone (Advair) When HIV PIs Being UsedAIDSmeds.com HIV/AIDS Treatment NewsAs explained by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) investigators who reported the data, people livin…
DCD Kidneys Can Yield Good OutcomesRenal Business TodayQUEBEC CITY—A Canadian team has confirmed that kidney transplantation donated after cardiac death (DCD) can result in good outcomes. DCD kidney donation was common until the 1960s but has just re…
ChicagoNow (blog)Live Organ Donation: A Tale of Two KidneysChicagoNow (blog)Live organ donation is a bit like that, too. Come to think of it, life is a bit like that. Funny how dichotomies work that way. On Friday morning, my friend and fellow blogger …
Long-Term Outcomes Similar for ECDs, SCDsRenal and Urology NewsIn July 1997, the transplant team at the McGill University Health Centre changed the immunosuppressive regimen for kidney recipients from cyclosporine to tacrolimus and from azathioprine to…
Lasuaasoc Students Save Lives, Donate BloodAllAfrica.comThe voluntary blood donation exercise tagged: Youth Voluntary Un-paid Blood Donation Exercise, was organised by the Lagos State Government Ministry of Health Blood Transfusion Services in collabor…
Biogen Idec Takes Option to MAKScientific MS ProgramGenetic Engineering NewsBiogen Idec's MS pipeline comprises Peg IFN, BG-12, and daclizumab, all of which are in Phase III for relapsing forms. Anti-Lingo is being investigated in Phase I. The comp…
Cytomedix Announces Publication in American Heart Journal Highlighting …MarketWatch (press release)The article is entitled, "Randomized, double-blind pilot study of transendocardial injection of autologous aldehyde dehydrogenase-bright stem cell…
FUSION IP PLC : Diurnal, raises £335k to complete Chronocort Phase I trial and …4-tradersBased in Cardiff, Diurnal is developing a novel approach to drug delivery that will help patients suffering from reduced levels of the key hormone cortisol (hyd…
Family of Young Organ Donor Meets Two RecipientsKAALtv.comRight now, there are more than one hundred thousand people in America waiting for life saving organ transplants. More than 2800 of them live in Minnesota. For two of those people, the wait is ov…
'Brain dead certification will help in organ harvesting'The Hindu“Apart from lack of awareness about organ donation, one major obstacle in our work is that the doctors do not declare brain death even when it happens. They keep the patient on …