Robotic-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for a 7-cm mass in a renal …UroTodayWarm ischemia time (WIT) was 26.5 min. Estimated blood loss was 100 mL. There was no change between pre- and postoperative eGFR. There were no operative complicatio…
StemCells reports world's 1st neural stem cell transplant in spinal cord …pharmabiz.comStemCells, Inc. announced that the first patient in the company's breakthrough phase I/II clinical trial in chronic spinal cord injury was successfully tra…
Rabbis urge religious public to volunteer as organ donorsJerusalem PostBrain death was established by the most respected arbiter of Jewish law of recent times, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, to be the relevant criterion for declaring death, although he stipula…
Ministry for 'licence' to donate organsDaily Pioneer“India has over 1 lakh brain death cases in fatal road mishaps. If this source is tapped we would be able to save many more lives,” the official said, explaining that if the donation rate …
Sahara Hospital to have bone marrow transplant unitTimes of IndiaHLA typing is an exhaustive process in which blood related parameters of donor and recipient are matched. Only a perfect match could allow transplant. Dr Arnon Nagler, director haematolog…
Long-term data on rituximab in DLBCLOncology UpdateRituximab's efficacy with CHOP in diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma at six years has been demonstrated in a study published in the Lancet this week. The follow-up of the MInT trial was “reassuring”…
Liver 'kills immune cells'Pakistan ObserverSCIENTISTS claim to have found that liver can kill immune cells, a finding which they claim may pave the way for new approaches to transplant rejection, and fight against hepatitis and other chronic li…
Proactive Investors USA & CanadaAfinitor Study Meets Primary EndpointDrug Discovery & DevelopmentA Phase 3 study of Novartis' Afinitor (everolimus) tabletsin patients with non-cancerous kidney tumors, or angiomyolipomas, associated with tuberous sc…
MedPage TodayLess May Be More for Kidney Transplant SuccessMedPage TodayDeath-censored graft failure due to acute rejection, however, was more common in the azathioprine or mycophenolate monotherapy arms (OR 2.79, 95% CI 1.39 to 5.61). Azathioprine or …
Near-death Experiences ExplainedDiscovery NewsWatt's research also busts another myth: that people have "returned from the dead" — if by dead you mean clinical brain death. No one has survived true clinical death (which is why the experi…