Clinical Oncology NewsDose-Dense Regimen Does Not Improve R-CHOP for DLBCLClinical Oncology NewsThe addition of rituximab (Rituxan, Genentech) to the regimen (i.e., R-CHOP) was found to improve cure rates by 10% to 15%. Researchers from the United King…
Death of the Brain Is Not the Death of the Human Being – Medscape
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Death of the Brain Is Not the Death of the Human Being
Medscape As long as we continue to insist that patients must be dead before we take their organs for transplant (the “dead donor rule”), determining whether they are dead (or not) is of the utmost importance. But it is also quite difficult. The longer a medical … |
Living better with heart failure by changing what you eat – University of Michigan Health System News (press release)
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Living better with heart failure by changing what you eat
University of Michigan Health System News (press release) ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Diet can dramatically lower hypertension and improve heart function in patients with a common type of heart failure, according to research presented at today’s Heart Failure Society of America meeting in Orlando, Fla. After 21 days … |
Wait list mortality higher for female heart transplant candidates – Healio
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Wait list mortality higher for female heart transplant candidates
Healio In the past decade, the proportion of women on the wait list for heart transplantation has increased by 4.2%, Morris said. – by Erik Swain. For more information: Morris AA. Abstract #207. Presented at: the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Heart Failure … |
Biomarker IDs Fibrotic Heart Failure – MedPage Today
Biomarker IDs Fibrotic Heart FailureMedPage TodayLevels of Gal-3 were significantly more elevated in patients with cardiac amyloidosis compared to those with left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (P<0.050) and those with systolic heart failure (P<0.0…
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals (OMED) Early-Stage Cancer Antibodies Could Raise … – The Wall Street Transcript
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OncoMed Pharmaceuticals (OMED) Early-Stage Cancer Antibodies Could Raise …
The Wall Street Transcript “[OncoMed] was a recent IPO this year, and this company is also an antibody-development company or a biotherapeutic company, and they are developing cancer antibodies, and they presently have five early-stage cancer antibodies that are wholly owned … |
TSH receptor antibodies could affect BMD loss in postmenopausal women – Healio
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TSH receptor antibodies could affect BMD loss in postmenopausal women
Healio Whole body and lumbar spine bone mineral density z scores were significantly lower among long-term euthyroid postmenopausal women with treated Graves’ disease compared with controls, according to data published in Thyroid Research. The data also … |
Coppell Dad Starts Small Organ Donation Charity in Daughter's Memory … – Dallas Observer (blog)
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Coppell Dad Starts Small Organ Donation Charity in Daughter’s Memory …
Dallas Observer (blog) This is what 13-year-old Taylor Storch left behind when she died in a skiing accident three years ago: a heart, which went on to beat in the chest of a 39-year-old mother in Arizona; two kidneys, which saved two separate people in Colorado; two corneas … Taylor’s Gift CEO defends $100000 salaryKVUE CEO of small foundation, Taylor’s Gift defends his six figure salaryDallas Morning News (blog) |
Cherokee Casino employee saves a life through organ donation – Casino City Times
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Cherokee Casino employee saves a life through organ donation
Casino City Times WEST SILOAM SPRINGS, Okla. –- (PRESS RELEASE) — As a single mother to three boys and a full-time poker dealer, Tresa Brewer has a lot on her plate. For many, this would be enough to bear alone, but Brewer somehow managed to give up six weeks of … |
Genetic alterations may predict everolimus efficacy – The Oncology Report
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Genetic alterations may predict everolimus efficacy
The Oncology Report SAN FRANCISCO – Among postmenopausal women with advanced hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, everolimus appeared to be more effective in the patients with one or no alterations in four key genes. In a secondary analysis of data from the … |