The GuardianDoctors' radical plan to tackle organ shortageThe GuardianBut the report admits that some intensive care doctors oppose the practice, "questioning whether frustration over the falling number of DBD [donation after brain death] dono…
Liverpool LeaderParents take first step to support organ donationThe Canberra TimesPeople languishing on the organ donor lists received Ben's heart, lungs, kidneys, liver and corneas; his pancreas went to researchers. Within a few months of Ben'…
Mystery Disease Killing Thousands May Be Caused by Manual LaborFox NewsZapata, a who worked as a sugar cane cutter for 20 years at the San Antonio sugar plantation, died of chronic kidney disease on Jan. 26 at age 49. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) Relatives…
John Common faced personal legal issuesAZ Central.comShe pinned her hopes for survival on a radical stem-cell-transplant surgery. Weeks before the planned operation, Janice Common discovered that her husband had allowed her health-insurance policy to l…
ABC NewsMystery disease kills thousands in Central AmericaSeattle Post IntelligencerA mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands…
Heart Failure Awareness Week EventLondonerAll are invited to attend a free seminar on heart failure for patients, care givers and the general public on Wednesday, February 15th from 4:00 – 5:30 pm in Auditorium A at University Hospital. The speakers ar…
Naumovich: First-time blood donation fulfills resolutionThe State Journal-RegisterBy DAN NAUMOVICH I was not the first person to offer up a vein and share the life-giving properties of my blood, but I sure felt like it. As I walked out of the Central I…
Seventeen-month-old San Mateo twins recovering after liver transplantsSan Jose Mercury NewsIn a small but growing number of cases, doctors are trying early liver transplantation to help manage the body's biochemistry and minimize toxicity to organs…
Let's Kill Betty for her OrgansBlogger News Network (blog)Well, it took awhile for physicians to make full brain death a criteria: but if the brain is dead, you stop the machines and the body dies. A secondary and growing source of vital organs is …
Biomarkers May Help Heart Failure Risk PredictionMedPage TodayExplain that in older adults, echocardiographic variables and levels of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) improved heart failure risk stratification compared with a clini…