Dick Harmon: Golf only part of aid for Lehi mother who needs transplant
Crystal Hadlock simply wants to breathe another day, hold her daughters and be a wife to her husband Chris. Anything else is…
Celgene Revlimid Growth Plans Stopped Dead
SUMMIT, NJ (TheStreet) –European regulators have rejected Celgene's request for an expanded approval of its multiple myeloma drug Revlimid to treat newly diagnosed patients, a stunning setback that slams the brakes on the company's growth. Cel…
PHARMAC refuses to pay for life-saving drug
A Christchurch father whose son has a rare and fatal disease hopes PHARMAC will pay for what may be a life saving drug for the 5-year-old.
Alnylam gets orphan status for drug candidate
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Tuesday that it received special regulatory incentives for a drug designed to treat a potentially fatal neurodegenerative disease.Alnylam said its drug candidate ALN-TTR02 …
Life on MARS: Emory Offers Lifesaving Liver Dialysis System for Acute Liver Failure
Emory one of only five health centers nationwide to offer Molecular Adsorbents Recirculating System (MARS), a liver dialysis system approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat select patients with acute liver failure due to drugs o…
Pfizer says FDA wants a new study of Vyndaqel
Pfizer Inc. said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has asked the company to run another clinical trial of its neurodegenerative disease drug Vyndaqel.
Stem cell treatment offers hope to those sickened after getting bone marrow
Meg Farris / Eyewitness News Email: mfarris@wwltv.com | Twitter: @megfarriswwl NEW ORLEANS – She was only in kindergarten when doctors gave her family the bad news. Now she's one of the first in Louisiana to try a new treatment for people who get…
Second Medical Marijuana User Denied Transplant at Cedars-Sinai
A second medical marijuana patient has been denied a transplant at Cedars-Sinai. Patient Toni Trujillo was put on a kidney transplant list earlier this year after her existing kidney transplant began to fail but she was booted off the list because of h…
@IU_Health draws big audience for transplant
As two Sullivan County men went through a life-saving kidney transplant on Wednesday, a worldwide audience checked in online to follow the progress of the surgery and ask questions of the medical team via Indiana’s first “Twittercast” of a live s…
Transplant recipients celebrate with TGH
Former transplant patients return to join Tampa General Hospital marks its position as the fourth-busiest transplant hospital in the nation.