What is a hepatologist?HealioHepatitis impacts millions of people worldwide and has been associated with a number of poor outcomes such as liver cancer and liver transplantation. Particularly, hepatitis B and hepatitis C frequently cause liver cancers….
9 Things To Do in South Sound This Weekend, March 21-23 – The Olympian
The Olympian9 Things To Do in South Sound This Weekend, March 21-23The Olympian(Three-time Grammy Award-winner Dennis Kamakahi was scheduled to perform but was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and will not appear.) Dubbed one of 50 events to attend …
NIH grantees sharpen understanding of antibodies that may cut risk of HIV … – Eureka! Science News
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NIH grantees sharpen understanding of antibodies that may cut risk of HIV …
Eureka! Science News What immune response should a vaccine elicit to prevent HIV infection? Two studies published online today bring scientists closer to answering this question by identifying previously unrecognized attributes of antibodies that appear to have reduced the … Lupus may end up saving livesVOXXI Past HIV vaccine trials pave way for new treatmentFree Press Journal |
Southern Alberta woman is back home after double lung transplant – Globalnews.ca
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Southern Alberta woman is back home after double lung transplant
Globalnews.ca The next day Hamilton received her double lung transplant surgery In Edmonton. “I woke up a day or two later and I was sedated. I remember telling my husband tell me if it worked.” So far her body has accepted the lungs without any complications and … |
Did You Know St. John's Wort Might Neutralize Hormonal Contraceptives? – Forbes
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Did You Know St. John’s Wort Might Neutralize Hormonal Contraceptives?
Forbes Doctors later learned that the patients had been taking St. John’s wort and that it was accelerating the breakdown of their transplant rejection drug, cyclosporine. The GlaxoSmithKline researcher, Steven Kliewer, and his colleagues demonstrated in 2000 … |
Organ donation after cardiac death – South Asia Mail
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Organ donation after cardiac death
South Asia Mail Their daughter had always wanted to donate her organs, but she didn’t meet the brain death criteria required for donation. Her Ottawa family was determined to fulfill her final wish. In 2006, she became the first Canadian in nearly four decades to … |
Initiation of dialysis for acute kidney injury potentially dangerous for frail … – Science Codex
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Initiation of dialysis for acute kidney injury potentially dangerous for frail …
Science Codex PHILADELPHIA – The decision to initiate dialysis for acute kidney injury (AKI) varies depending on different patient factors and there is a lack of robust evidence as to which patients are likely to benefit most and why. A new study from researchers at … In AKI, Dialysis Works Better With Higher CreatinineMedPage Today AKI Predictors in Lymphoma Patients IdentifiedRenal and Urology News |
Initiation of dialysis for acute kidney injury potentially dangerous for frail … – EurekAlert (press release)
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Initiation of dialysis for acute kidney injury potentially dangerous for frail …
EurekAlert (press release) PHILADELPHIA – The decision to initiate dialysis for acute kidney injury (AKI) varies depending on different patient factors and there is a lack of robust evidence as to which patients are likely to benefit most and why. A new study from researchers at … |
North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute Doctors' Editorial Published in The New … – PR Web (press release)
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North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute Doctors’ Editorial Published in The New …
PR Web (press release) Researchers compared the benefits of obinutuzumab with that of another antibody rituximab, which also attacks CD20. Both drugs were combined with the chemotherapy drug chlorambucil. They found that subjects receiving obinutuzumab-chlorambucil had … |
LIVE MEDTALK: Treating Congestive Heart Failure and the Role of Payment … – Brookings Institution
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LIVE MEDTALK: Treating Congestive Heart Failure and the Role of Payment …
Brookings Institution In a new and exciting “MEDTALK” format that converges medicine, education and delivery reform, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform presents the Merkin Series on Innovations in Care Delivery. These unique learning opportunities will allow … |