PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania woman whose autistic adult son was not recommended for a heart transplant said she wants to bring more attention to the decision-making process so that those with ailments or disabilities are not passed over without care…
A Pottsville mom says her son is being denied a lifesaving organ transplant because he has autism.
Karen Corby says she was "stunned" when doctors turned down her 23-year-old son for a heart transplant citing his autism diagnosis. Now she's hoping an online petition could change his fortune.
Medgenics, Inc. , the developer of Biopump™, a novel technology for the sustained production and delivery of therapeutic proteins in patients using their own tissue, is pleased to announce the appointment of Marvin Garovoy, M.D.
WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — GeNO LLC ( www.genollc.com ), a privately held pharmaceutical company developing a line of inhaled nitric oxide drug products, today announced that the U.S. …
Twenty-three-year-old Paul Corby has a bad heart and a flawed mind. The question before doctors now is whether his mental problems – he has a form of autism – are severe enough to make him a bad candidate for a heart transplant.
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A Winnipeg human rights lawyer says drugs may be tested on organs taken from executed prisoners.
A new clinical trial published in the August edition of Clinical Cancer Research has revealed that cancer patients who drink one glass of grapefruit juice per day achieve the same benefits from an anti-cancer drug as they would get from more than three…
8-ounce glass of grape fruit juice increased levels of anti-cancer drug in patients' blood by 350 percent