Renowned surgeon Yoshiya Toyoda joins TemplePhiladelphia Business JournalYoshiya Toyoda, MD, PhD, has joined Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia as professor of surgery and vice chief of cardiothoracic surgery, surgical director of hea…
Green tea flavonoid may prevent reinfection with hepatitis C virus following …EurekAlert (press release)HCV is one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease and a primary indication for liver transplantation, affecting up to 170 million indi…
Global Hospitals to organise International Liver Conclave from Dec 2 to 4 in …pharmabiz.comThis three day scientific conference will be spearheaded by the world renowned Liver transplantation surgeon professor Mohamed Rela. Over 30 eminent doctors fr…
Global Hospitals organises “Master Class in Liver Diseases”India Infoline.comThis 3 day scientific conference will be spearheaded by the world renowned Liver transplantation surgeon Prof. Mohamed Rela. Over 30 eminent doctors from USA & Europe …
Disease that scars lungs is affecting more womenSTLtoday.comIPF has no proven treatment other than lung transplantation. Many drugs tested have failed to demonstrate a benefit. Pirfenidone, a drug that failed to show a clear benefit in a large clinical…
CircuLite(R) Raises $30 Million Series D FinancingMarketWatch (press release)Dr. Rose is a past President of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and was also the Morris & Rose Millstein Professor of Surgery at Columbia Univ…
China's first heart, liver transplant succeedsPeople’s Daily Online28 that it has succeeded in completing a combined heart and liver transplantation, which was the first operation of its kind in China and the third one in Asia. Currently, the patie…
Working KnowledgeRethinking the Fairness of Organ TransplantsWorking KnowledgeThey detail the proposed model in a new paper, Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation. In early simulations, the model suggests t…
More Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Requiring TransplantMedscapeNovember 28, 2011 (San Francisco, California) — Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) as an indication for liver transplantation rose 5-fold from 2002 to 2009. Although metabolic changes rel…
Gulf TimesHMC launches hi-tech organ transplant facilityPeninsula On-lineCurrently, there are some 600 patients here on dialysis, and about 60 are on active waiting list for kidney transplantation. Some nine patients are on active waiting list for Live…