Family Practice News Digital NetworkLung transplant system often skips over those most in needMedical XpressThe current system for allocating donated lungs based on proximity and not on need appears to decrease the potential benefits of lung transplant…
Kidney Transplantation: NJ Parents See Hope After Operation Denial OutcryThirdAgeA 3-year-old girl whose parents claimed she was denied a kidney transplantation at one of the nation's top children's hospitals because of her mental disability is…
ABC NewsAmelia Rivera, Mentally Disabled, May Get Kidney Transplant After AllABC NewsRivera blogged about what she said was her daughter's transplant "rejection" two weeks ago. The Riveras said a doctor at Children's Hospital had init…
Celldex Therapeutics: 52-Week High Recently Eclipsed (CLDX)Financial News Network OnlineThe Company's products treat autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and inflammation, as well as infectious diseases and organ transplant rejecti…
PhysOrg.comMetabolic Errors Affect DNAMedical News TodayAbnormal purine metabolism can also lead to side effects in individuals undergoing therapy with drugs classed as thiopurines, which are commonly used to treat leukemia, lymphoma, Crohn's disea…
Celldex Therapeutics Up 6.5%, Shares Break Through Resistance (CLDX)Financial News Network Online… uses applications of immunology to prevent and treat diseases. The Company's products treat autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, a…
Preop evaluation before refractive IOL implantationModernMedicineThis patient was treated preoperatively with a topical prednisolone acetate 1% and cyclosporine (Restasis, Allergan), which, 1 week later, resulted in more consistent astigmatism measurem…
Biogen Idec's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results – Earnings Call TranscriptSeeking AlphaSELECT, the first of 2 registrational trials for Daclizumab, showed impressive clinical results in 2011 and supported the continuation of the second registrational s…
Immunomodulators Market – Immunosuppressant Antibodies to Replace …SBWire (press release)The first therapeutic mAb approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was Muromonab-CD3 (trade name Orthoclone OKT3), a murine IgG2a CD3 specific transpla…
Professor uses snakes to research heart failureDeseret NewsThat change in heart size is the focus of recent research at the universities of Alabama and Colorado — and payoff from the research may lead toward treatment for human congestive heart failur…