BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring(R) Detects Atrial High-Rate Events Associated With …MarketWatch (press release)Data were analyzed from 560 heart failure (HF) patients with implanted cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices who were enrolled in two s…
Press-Citizen Editorial Board | Our ViewIowa City Press CitizenThe Register reportsthere are 634 people on organ donation waiting lists in Iowa and more than 112500 nationwide. Of those, 534 people in Iowa and more than 90000 nationwide are waiting for…
Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells: Prime Source for Transplants and Future …PR Newswire UK (press release)She was the first to execute a cord blood stem cell transplant curing a child with Fanconi's Anemia in 1988, using the stem cells of a sibling…
Awareness on blood donation on December 1IBNLive.comDr PV Sulochana, Blood Transfusion Officer of Sree Chitra Blood Bank will inaugurate the activities followed by a presentation on voluntary blood donation. C Padmakumar, executive director of Terumo P…
Korean Woman dies of Creutzfeldt-Jakob DiseaseArirang NewsKorea's Center for Disease Control announced on Tuesday that a 54-year old woman, believed to have been infected with the disease during brain tissue transplant surgery some 23 years ago, di…
Heart Failure: Symptoms, Causes and RisksEmpowHerBy EmpowHER November 28, 2011 – 9:56am Heart failure (congestive heart failure), is a condition whereby the heart can no longer pump enough blood to the body. Typically a chronic, long-term condition but…
S. Korean woman dies of Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseYonhap NewsThe 54-year-old was diagnosed with iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (iCJD) after her death and is believed to have been infected during a subdural transplant surgery some 23 years ago, acc…
'Blood donation too low in Nigeria'The NationA Consultant haematologist, and Acting Executive Secretary, Lagos State Blood Transfusion Committee (LSBTC), Dr Uwen Olusola Oyekan, said it is worrisome that blood donation by Nigerians is poor. It …
Blood donation mission inspires medal proposalStarNewsOnline.comSweetman has also helped organize blood donation drives and encouraged others to donate blood. While Sweetman is honored to be the inspiration for McIntyre's legislation, he said he is…
MedPage TodayHbA1c Must Be Just Right in Diabetic Kidney DiseaseMedPage TodayAmong patients with diabetes and stage 3 or 4 chronic kidney disease, glycated hemoglobin levels that are too low are associated with worse clinical outcomes, just as are leve…