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Coffee consumption associated with reduced risk of autoimmune liver disease
EurekAlert (press release) The patients in Dr. Karvellas’s study had been de-listed or declined for liver transplantation. The most common reason was noncompliance with restrictions on substance use, but other reasons related to cancer and multiple organ dysfunction. Researchers … |
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HIV No Barrier to Getting Liver Transplant: Study
WebMD “The key message of this study is that liver transplantation is a valid option for HCC treatment in HIV-infected patients,” the study’s authors wrote in a journal news release. “We suggest that HIV-infected patients must be offered the same liver … |
PR Web (press release)Dr. Jack Copeland Honored with Pioneer in Transplantation Award at ISHLTPR Web (press release)Dr. Jack Copeland (center) is honored with the Pioneer in Transplantation Award at the annual meeting of the International Society of He…
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Warning didn’t change for-profit dialysis drug use
Chicago Tribune It’s just that it does have side effects and people do need to be aware of them,” said Dr. Nina Tolkoff-Rubin, director of renal transplantation and hemodialysis at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Previous studies had found that for-profit … |
Triple therapy for hepatitis C is effective after liver transplantation, but …aidsmapThe median time since liver transplantation at the start of therapy was 3.7 years. Most patients (88%) used telaprevir, almost all with a pegylated interferon/ribavi…
UC DavisPelosi to lead off graduation speakers at UC DavisUC DavisLawrence S.C. Czer, medical director of heart transplantation at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, will speak at the School of Medicine commencement on Saturday, June 1. T…
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For-profit dialysis centers continued to use anemia drug after black box warning
MedCity News It’s just that it does have side effects and people do need to be aware of them,” said Dr. Nina Tolkoff-Rubin, director of renal transplantation and hemodialysis at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Previous studies had found that for-profit … |
Isotechnika Reports First Quarter 2013 Financial ResultsGlobeNewswire (press release)A combined company, having both the lupus nephritis and renal transplantation indications under a single corporate umbrella, would likely offer the most commercially a…
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Warning didn’t change for-profit dialysis drug use
Reuters It’s just that it does have side effects and people do need to be aware of them,” said Dr. Nina Tolkoff-Rubin, director of renal transplantation and hemodialysis at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Previous studies had found that for-profit … |
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Integrating ‘mHealth’ into hospitals
Irish Medical Times His workplace — which is widely referred to as ‘King’s’ — is one of the largest teaching hospitals in London, has the largest liver transplantation programme in Europe and an extremely busy Emergency Department (ED), which is the focus of the … |