Heart Failure Program Reduces Readmissions Down to 3%Becker’s Hospital ReviewA new heart failure program at Mary Lanning Memorial Healthcare in Hastings, Neb., helped dramatically reduce heart failure readmission rates, according to a KHASTV report. Un…
French TribuneMovie targets organ donor ratesSBSBy Lisa Zilberpriver It is 'Donate Life' week this week, and the government hopes a powerful movie will help change minds in some communities whose cultural barriers have slowed down acceptance of…
Carrboro man to get stem cell transplantChapel Hill NewsBY ELIZABETH SWARINGEN, Special to The Chapel Hill News CHAPEL HILL – Three infusions of your own stem cells – each infusion over a 21-day hospitalization – can seem daunting. But, when it's y…
USA TODAYNICE recommends earlier use of Roche's RoActemra for rheumatoid arthritisPMLiVE… for people with RA as a third-line treatment option if DMARDs had been ineffective, and if patients had also both demonstrated an inadequate response to one…
USA TODAYFive myths about organ donation in AustraliaSBSPresumed consent legislation can be indicative of many things, including the willingness of a country's citizens to accept brain death and organ donation as a normal part of dying and to accep…
Israeli joins Kentucky surgeons in transplant surgeryJerusalem PostSurgeons consider attaching an arm from a deceased donor the most challenging type of hand transplant surgery. The recipient was 56-year-old Ronald Thurman, a farmer from Indiana whose …
Alberta organ donation ratesCalgary Herald (blog)Recently, I had the chance to talk to Calgarian Kyshon Jack for a story on organ donation. The 31-year-old married father of three children was diagnosed with kidney failure almost two years ago. Like th…
HistoryOrgan Transplants: A Brief HistoryHistoryHe found that skin from a different donor usually caused the procedure to fail, observing the immune response that his successors would come to recognize as transplant rejection. European doctors attempte…
Organ donation set for 2nd girl in LA drowningSacramento BeeAP LOS ANGELES — A 5-year-old girl whose mother is charged with drowning her sister and trying to kill her remained hospitalized on life support Tuesday morning until her organs can be harves…
Large NY urology group practice partners with Mount SinaiModernMedicineUnder the new affiliation with Mount Sinai, IMP patients who require tertiary or quaternary care procedures, including cystectomy or nephrectomy, complex renal and robotic surgeries…