'Excellent' Survival Seen for Liver Transplant From Live DonoriVillage Entertainment11 (HealthDay News) — The 10-year survival rate for patients with acute liver failure who had a living donor liver transplant was 73 percent, a study of patien…
CBS LocalDevice Aims To Help Congestive Heart Failure PatientsCBS LocalSomething this woman with congestive heart failure is grateful for because without their research trial, she was heading toward a heart transplant. “I was actually relieved that t…
Active follow-up with telephone help can reduce deaths in chronic heart …Medical XpressChronic heart failure (CHF) patients are less likely to have died a year after discharge if they are involved in a programme of active follow-up once they have ret…
PLoS BlogsQuality of life and treatment of late-stage chronic kidney diseaseMedical XpressIn people with late-stage chronic kidney disease, renal transplantation is the best treatment option to improve quality of life, but for those receiving dialysis,…
FDA review OKs Cornerstone drug for low salt condition, not heart failure patientsMedCity NewsHowever, she said the drug should not be approved for heart failure patients, which the company had also sought. The FDA staff review comes ahead of an adviso…
'Excellent' Survival Seen for Liver Transplant From Live DonorDoctors Lounge11 (HealthDay News) — The 10-year survival rate for patients with acute liver failure who had a living donor liver transplant was 73 percent, a study of patients in Ja…
The West AustralianGM crop link to liver failureNew Zealand HeraldScientists have linked the risk of liver failure and death to wheat being genetically modified in Australian tests. The claims of New Zealand genetics lecturer Jack Heinemann and biochem…
MedPage TodayWARCEF: Warfarin protects against death/stroke in younger HF patientsTheHeart.OrgSeattle, WA – In a randomized trial that compared outcomes on warfarin vs aspirin in patients in sinus rhythm with systolic heart failure, those who were <…
Cath Partridge died of liver failure caused by heavy drinkingThis Is HampshireAndrew Bradley, coroner for north-east Hampshire, said she died of liver failure “having been a heavy drinker”. After recording a verdict of death by natural causes, he t…
Genetically Modified (GMO) Crops Linked to Liver Failure: New StudyDeathRattleSports.comThe food fight for the ages between natural and genetically modified crops has gotten nasty ahead of a historic vote on the labeling of GMOs in California this Nove…