Alnylam and Collaborators Publish Clinical Trial Results with RNAi …Wall Street JournalFAP patients have a life expectancy of five to 15 years from symptom onset, and the only treatment options for early stage disease are liver transplantation and ta…
Post-Transplant Immune Response May Hurt BlacksMedPage TodayA 2011 retrospective examination of the United Network for Organ Sharing database, for example, found that blacks had a 34% increased risk of dying from any cause following heart transplantati…
New Actelion Drug Found Safe And Effective In Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension …ForbesThe primary endpoint (the time to the first occurrence of a composite endpoint of death, atrial septostomy, lung transplantation, initiation of treatment with intrav…
Doctor TipsterBlocking molecular pathway reverses pulmonary hypertension in rats, study findsScope (blog)28 in Science Translational Medicine, suggest that using medications to block this pathway could lead to the first-known cure for the disease, apar…
Doctor TipsterBlocking molecular pathway reverses pulmonary hypertension in rats, Stanford …EurekAlert (press release)28 in Science Translational Medicine, suggest that using medications to block this pathway could lead to the first-known cure for th…
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Researchers develop ddPCR technology to quantify rejection biomarker in …
News-Medical.net The new blood test can also deliver results up to several days before the conventional aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and bilirubin tests for liver transplantation rejection, with the potential for an immediate positive impact on patient care. “We … |
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Kidney Donor May Have Passed On Skin Cancer
MedPage Today … found the presence of p53+ cells that contained the same TP53 mutation. “These findings provide evidence for a donor epithelial cell contribution to the malignant skin epithelium in the recipient in the setting of allogeneic kidney transplantation … |
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Researchers develop rapid, cost-effective early detection method for organ …
Science Codex The new blood test can also deliver results up to several days before the conventional aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and bilirubin tests for liver transplantation rejection, with the potential for an immediate positive impact on patient care. “We … |
Sunshine Heart Inc (SSH): Sunshine Heart To Go Head To Head With Thoratec …Seeking Alpha… evaluating the HeartMate II LVAS versus a control group consisting of optimal medical management (OMM) in selected non-inotrope dependent, ambulatory, moderat…
Investigational oral regimen for hepatitis C shows promise in NIH trialNational Institutes of Health (press release)More than 3 million Americans have chronic HCV infection, a condition that is a major cause of cirrhosis (liver tissue scarring) and liv…