WMN opinion: Breakthrough in a basic health test can help us allThis is CornwallWe are used to medical breakthroughs occurring in the more dramatic areas of healthcare, like genetics, transplant surgery and other life-changing interventions. To most pa…
Organ-preserving renal tumor surgery for renal cell carcinoma ≥T1b …UroTodayCurrent data, however, suggest that approximately 60% of patients with T1b tumors are treated by radical nephrectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective ana…
Parents cope with second heart transplant in their familySpringfield News SunBy Tom Stafford, Staff Writer 10:08 PM Monday, January 30, 2012 James and Phyllis Ryder learned about the ups and downs of heart transplant surgery when their late daughter, S…
Not only celebrities get hair transplantsEasier (press release)Celebrities such as Louis Walsh, James Nesbitt and Wayne Rooney have all gone public about their hair transplants, but the truth is that thousands of ordinary men receive hair transplant su…
Kidney Cancer Tumor Size, Preoperative eGFR LinkedRenal and Urology NewsIn a study of 1009 patients undergoing partial or radical nephrectomy for unilateral RCC, tumor diameter independently predicted decreased preoperative eGFR after controlling for r…
Adrenalectomy Rates Remain High in Radical NephrectomyRenal and Urology NewsDuring a recent 10-year period, the rate of ipsilateral adrenalectomy at the time of radical nephrectomy decreased slightly, a study found. Stanley A. Yap, MD, of the Universit…
OM This Day in History January 30, 2012Outcome MagazineIn 1993, parents donated portions of their own lungs to their daughter with cystic fibrosis in pioneering transplant surgery in Los Angeles. Wild flowers light up the Antelope Valley, home of the S…
Fast-track faxes, sperm zappers and tummy tuckersPulseBy James Brown | 30 Jan 2012 A Times investigation (paywall) has revealed that healthy organs, ready for transplant surgery, are going to waste due to 'shortcomings in the transplant system'…
20-year-old gives kidney to save grandfatherWilliamsport Sun-GazetteTindall and her grandfather both underwent transplant surgery Thursday at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. Tindall went in to have a kidney removed at 6 am, and Jessup's surge…
Suing the state? Not unless he says yesCt Post11, 2011 showing Nash after face transplant surgery, right. Nash was mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009 and received the transplant in May 2011 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts. Nash, 57, sa…