Sleep apnea treatment may protect against heart failureMedical XpressA nightly breathing treatment may do more than help people with obstructive sleep apnea get a good night's rest — it may also help prevent heart failure. In a study published in…
Renal Cancer Therapeutics: Now What?Cancer NetworkBy Walter M. Stadler, MD, FACP 1 | March 13, 2012 The development of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway inhibitors and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors for the treatment of…
Systemic Therapy in Renal Cell Carcinoma: Advancing ParadigmsCancer NetworkIt is recognized that early intervention with nephrectomy results in excellent long-term survival. In 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first small mo…
NorthJersey.comMinoru Mori, Japan's Mr. Real Estate, Dies of Heart Failure at 77World Property ChannelBillionaire Minoru Mori, Japan's Mr. Real Estate, has died of heart failure at the age of 77. His Mori Building Co. announced March 12 that Mo…
Scotland CourierOrgan donation providing some comfort for family of Forfar woman Dawn CoverdaleScotland CourierRoss added: ''If an organ donation could have saved her we would have wanted that for her, and we are convinced she would have wanted…
Dying during delivery: heart failure kills moms-to-beWFTV OrlandoHEART FAILURE AND PREGNANCY: Cardiac diseases complicate one percent to four percent of pregnancies in women without preexisting cardiac abnormalities. If a woman has preexisting symptoms…
Teen Receives Life-saving Double Organ Transplant at Texas Children's HospitalBradenton HeraldDr. Marc Schecter, medical director of lung transplantation and Dr. Beth Carter, interim medical director of liver transplantation monitored the lung and …
BBC News'Four in 10 people' on organ donor list in NHS Grampian areaBBC NewsNHS Grampian has reached an organ donation high – with four in 10 people signed up to the register. A total of 40.2% of residents in the health board area are now regis…
Macleans.caIn conversation: Dick TeresiMacleans.caDoctors became more involved, but the real change occurred in 1968: a committee of 13 men at Harvard Medical School endorsed brain death as legal death, and this became US law in 1981. Doctors were now …
New Yorker (blog)To-Do List: Southern Primaries and Astounding FactsNew Yorker (blog)The current criteria on brain death were set by a Harvard Medical School committee in 1968, at a time when organ transplantation was making great strides. In 1981, the…