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Research Reveals Secret Behind a Steady Heartbeat
U.S. News & World Report The investigators also found that a class of drugs called mTOR inhibitors — which are used to suppress the immune system in people who’ve received organ transplants — can change the balance of proteins in heart cells and boost the amount of … |
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Leslie Holland | Tax credits an acceptable incentive to donate organs
The Courier-Journal Transplant surgery averages $150,000, far less than the $350,000-$800,000 required to keep an ESRD patient alive for four to eight years. It is currently illegal in the U.S. and most other countries to sell human organs. Donors live as long — or … |
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Men’s Heart Failure Risk Increased by Time Spent Sitting
PR Web (press release) A new study published in the American Heart Association’s journal ‘Circulation’ adds to the growing evidence linking time spent sitting during the day to increased heart failure risks in men. The researchers concluded that preventing heart failure … |
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Brain Death Woman’s Fetus is ‘Distinctly Abnormal’
Guardian Liberty Voice Brain Death Woman’s Foetus is ‘Distinctly Abnormal’ The ongoing case of Marlise Munoz, the pregnant Texas woman being kept on life support after brain death, took a tragic turn yesterday with the release of medical records by attorneys acting on her … Even in Death, Abortion Politics Never Goes AwayNew Yorker (blog) Laws about life and deathThe Economist Attorneys: Brain-Dead Woman’s Fetus ‘Abnormal’ABC News Latinos Post all 236 news articles » |
Infinity Reports Phase 1 Data of IPI-145 at Sixth Annual T-Cell Lymphoma ForumWall Street JournalAn investigator-sponsored Phase 1b, open-label study of IPI-145 in patients with B-cell NHL, CLL and T-cell lymphoma in combination with rituximab (a monoc…
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‘Vegetative state,’ not ‘brain death‘ concept least understandable, quiz …
ModernHealthcare.com (blog) Experts interviewed about two brain-dead patients being kept alive amid legal battles told Modern Healthcare that physicians and hospital leaders may not have a firm grasp on the terms commonly used to describe disorders of consciousness. So we created … |
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New Sickle Cell Treatment
WTAJ We can’t transplant you,’” said Shalini Shenoy, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Program, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Dr. Shalini Shenoy is studying a new option … |
Morbidity higher in obese liver transplant recipients with diabetesEurekAlert (press release)Researchers from New Zealand report that morbidity following liver transplant is highest among obese patients with diabetes, but these risk factors do not infl…
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Researchers Develop Risk Calculator to Predict Survival in Heart Failure Patients
Science Daily (press release) Jan. 22, 2014 — A UCLA team has developed an easy-to-use “risk calculator” that helps predict heart failure patients’ chances of survival for up to five years and assists doctors in determining whether more or less aggressive treatment is appropriate. |
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New easy-to-use risk calculator helps predict heart failure patients’ chances …
News-Medical.net A UCLA team has developed an easy-to-use “risk calculator” that helps predict heart failure patients’ chances of survival for up to five years and assists doctors in determining whether more or less aggressive treatment is appropriate. Given that heart … |