Telegraph.co.ukRelatives over-rule organ donor wishes of loved ones: researchTelegraph.co.ukOnly 30 per cent of the UK population are registered on the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR). Campaigns should be mounted to promote the need for families to disc…
Health referral cost escalatesKuensel, Buhutan’s National NewspaperRecently, he said, the country introduced referral of patients for kidney transplantation with non-relative donors to Kolkota. “We've already received six patients for kidney tran…
Mechanical Cardiac Assist Device for Children with Heart FailureToday’s Medical DevelopmentsThe US Food and Drug Administration has approved a medical device that supports the weakened heart of children with heart failure to help keep them alive until …
Jacob Goldman, Founder of Xerox Lab, Dies at 90New York TimesThe cause was congestive heart failure, his son Melvin said. Emblematic of a time when American corporations invested heavily in basic scientific research, Dr. Goldman played an important rol…
Teva prednisolone recallDispensing Doctors’ AssociationBy Ailsa Colquhoun Teva is recalling four batches of blister-packed prednisolone 2.5mg and 5mg, due to stability concerns. 5mgx28: Batches: 80077 and 80057. Expiry date: January 2014, and 69896. Ex…
REVA Commences the RESTORE Clinical Trial First Human Implants With ReZolve(TM …MarketWatch (press release)The RESTORE Trial (Pilot Study of the ReZolve Sirolimus-Eluting Bioresorbable Coronary Scaffold) will evaluate the safety and performance of Re…
RTI: Steroids in many unbranded ayurvedic medicinesIndian ExpressResults showed that out of the 244 samples analysed, 96 (39.34%) of them had tested positive for steroids like betamethasone, dexamethasone and prednisolone. “Many people complained of …
Warrant reveals details of baby's deathCt PostPhysicians there noted that brain death was the most likely outcome. And in fact, at 10:20 am on June 12, the boy was officially declared brain dead. Scans subsequently showed the boy had bleeding on bo…
In a “First,” Leading Edge Technology for Heart Failure Patients is Launched …ParamusPost.comHis 78 year-old patient was sorely in need of an intervention due to the effects of heart failure, a condition in which the heart is weakened and does no…
CTV.caDisturbing video sparks pressure to ban horse meatCTV.caCausing immediate Brain Death! Horses are by nature head shy. That is why they cannot be head penned like cattle. Secondly they will struggle, shy away and any other way they can to avoid he…