Heart transplant surgery safe and effective: A Canadian retrospective spanning …EurekAlert (press release)Vancouver – Heart transplantation is a very safe and effective therapy, according to a new long-term study presented today at the Canadian Car…
CTV.caHeart transplant survival rates improve: studyGlobe and MailModern heart transplantation became available in 1980, and the study found that survival rates have improved by more than 20 per cent in the years since. “Eight-year survival since the…
Changes to organ donor program urgedVancouver Sun“No one is coercing you and they have a 70-per-cent participation rate [in registration for organ donation].” In BC, the participation rate is 19 per cent. BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan combined had o…
Full transcript: Dr Erin LalorSydney Morning HeraldSo there is this cascading effect of brain death. Thrombolysdis, the clot-busting drug, will allow the blood to get back there very, very quickly and get what the brain needs to survive and it reverses…
USA TodayBeavis and Butt-Head are bringing stupid backUSA TodayAfter 14 years in retirement — or perhaps misdiagnosed brain death — the animated, teenage couch potatoes return, no wiser for the wear, to a new generation and a world of YouTube, mixe…
European Medicines Agency agrees to precautionary recall of Advagraf 0.5 mg …IEWY NewsThe European Medicines Agency has agreed to the immediate recall of some batches of 0.5 mg prolonged-release hard capsules of Advagraf (tacrolimus) from pharmacies …
CANOEHospitals should face heart failure costsToronto SunLess than a third of patients who visited an emergency department for heart failure were followed up within two weeks, according to a report. (Amber Bracken/QMI Agency/Files) Hospitals should be …
ECTRIMS: New Biologic Drug Shows Promise in MSMedPage TodayExplain that treatment with daclizumab (Zenapax), an investigational monoclonal antibody drug, cut annualized relapse rates in half among patients with early relapsing-remitting multiple sclero…
Stroke Prevention in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation, a Clinical Context ReportMedPage TodayHeart failure is a risk factor. History of hypertension also occurs in most of these patients, and that's an important risk factor, and so is diabetes mel…
CANOEScorecard helps predict heart failure patients in emergency at risk of dyingToronto StarTwo new studies turn a lens on the role of emergency departments in treating patients with heart failure, a condition that's associated with billions of do…