Brits eager to try smart pills for med compliance, cost savingsFierceMobileHealthcare (press release)Now, several units of the NHS say they want to use the service for monitoring complex high-cost treatments such as organ transplant rejection therapies…
Rapid diagnosis of severe kidney damageEurekAlert (press release)How does a doctor determine whether or not an emergency-room patient has acute kidney injury? Using tests currently available in the hospital, this question is often difficult to answer. …
Nodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma: What Do We Really Know?Cancer NetworkFor example, the RESORT trial,[2] which addressed the question of maintenance rituximab vs retreatment rituximab, was designed statistically to test the question in patients with follic…
Nodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma: Impersonalized MedicineCancer Network[12] More recently, impressive response rates coupled with manageable toxicity have created significant interest in the use of bendamustine with rituximab for indolent NHLs; however, th…
Jariah Henderson Organ Donation: 2-Year-Old Killed In Accidental Shooting …Huffington PostThe family of a 2-year-old girl who was fatally wounded in an accidental shooting Saturday in Gary, Ind. has decided to donate the child's organs. WGN-TV re…
Drug shortages raising supply chain risk, says FDASecuring Pharma… including unapproved versions of AstraZeneca's breast cancer drug Faslodex (fulvestrant), Amgen's white blood cell stimulator Neupogen (filgrastim), and Roche's cancer dru…
Omni Bio Announces Progress of BioMimetix PharmaceuticalMarketWatch (press release)Novel discoveries made at the University of Colorado Denver indicate that AAT has the potential to address a variety of indications in the areas of diabetes, transplant …
Seniors lack access to lifesaving organs despite survival benefitThe JHU GazetteSegev and his team constructed a statistical model for predicting how well older adults would be expected to do after kidney transplantation by taking into account age, smo…
Mum's family 'satisfied' with probe outcomeSouth Wales Evening PostAs part of her treatment — which included years of intermittent chemotherapy and radiotherapy in Swansea — she underwent a stem cell transplant at the University of Wale…
DNA sequence that causes severe cases of lupus identifiedLabmate OnlineTherapies currently used are based on cortisone, anti-malarial drugs and immunosuppressants (azathioprine, mycophenolate, cyclophosphamide) and biologic drugs (rituximab, Belimumab)…