24Apr/13

US Heart Failure Costs Could Skyrocket: Report – U.S. News & World Report

US Heart Failure Costs Could Skyrocket: Report
U.S. News & World Report
That means that by 2030, every U.S. taxpayer could be paying $244 a year to care for heart failure patients, according to the American Heart Association policy statement. It said the findings highlight the need for strategies to prevent and treat heart
Costs to treat heart failure expected to more than double by 2030 – Medical XpressMedical Xpress
Durham University researchers find one in five care home patients may have The Northern Echo
ALMH Offers New Heart Failure Disease Management ProgramLincoln Courier

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24Apr/13

Brain-dead organ donor dashed across Atlantic to save others – Digital Journal – DigitalJournal.com


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Brain-dead organ donor dashed across Atlantic to save others – Digital Journal
DigitalJournal.com
Sima, a former nurse, and organ donor card carrier, had been in New Jersey for a week when she had a seizure said to have been caused by a previously undetected congenital defect in her blood vessels. She was declared brain-dead in New Jersey and
Trans-Atlantic dash fulfills organ donor’s wishesThe Times of Israel

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24Apr/13

XDx Announces Presentations at Upcoming 2013 International Society for Heart … – Fort Mills Times

XDx Announces Presentations at Upcoming 2013 International Society for Heart
Fort Mills Times
These findings were presented in a late breaking oral presentation at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)’s 32nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, held in April 2012, in Prague, Czech Republic. The oral presentation

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24Apr/13

XDx Announces Presentations at Upcoming 2013 International Society for Heart … – Business Wire (press release)

XDx Announces Presentations at Upcoming 2013 International Society for Heart
Business Wire (press release)
These findings were presented in a late breaking oral presentation at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)’s 32nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, held in April 2012, in Prague, Czech Republic. The oral presentation

24Apr/13

Majority of children readmitted to hospital following stem cell transplant – Science Daily (press release)

Majority of children readmitted to hospital following stem cell transplant
Science Daily (press release)
Apr. 24, 2013 — Nearly two-thirds of children receiving stem cell transplants returned to the hospital within six months for treatment of unexplained fevers, infections or other problems, according to a study performed at Dana-Farber/Children’s

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24Apr/13

Face transplant success paves way for feet – Adelaide Now

Face transplant success paves way for feet
Adelaide Now
Surgeons are also making progress in transplant surgery for people who have lost a limb, he said. “Again that’s an experimental protocol. But people have reattached (a patient’s) own limb if it’s amputated. Hands were more commonly reattached than
Boston ‘best place to help bomb victims’ – NinemsnNinemsn

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24Apr/13

Video reveals cancer cells' Achilles' heel – EurekAlert! – EurekAlert (press release)

Video reveals cancer cells’ Achilles’ heel – EurekAlert!
EurekAlert (press release)
Professor Daniel Davis and his team used high quality video imaging to investigate why the drug rituximab is so effective at killing cancerous B cells. It is widely used in the treatment of B cell malignancies, such as lymphoma and leukaemia – as well

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