Landmark study in blood stem cell transplant
Emory Health Now (blog) Before all the excitement about embryonic stem cells, doctors were using hematopoetic – that is, blood-forming — stem cells. Hematopoetic stem cells can replenish all the types of cells in the blood, and are the centerpiece of transplantation as … |
Live Music Sunday, Jan. 6 – The Providence Journal
Live Music Sunday, Jan. 6
The Providence Journal 3 pm. Bring scores if possible; musicians welcome (call church in advance). Followed by soup supper. Free; donations requested. Benefit for Welcome House. St. Paul’s Church Choir, organist Mark Steinbach directing, St. Paul’s Church, 55 Main St., Wickford. |
Partial Nephrectomy Procedural Window Widened With Use of ICE Technique – Cancer Network
Partial Nephrectomy Procedural Window Widened With Use of ICE TechniqueCancer NetworkA new technique of robotic partial nephrectomy has the potential for better preservation of kidney function and better cancer control during partial nephrectomy by all…
Baby Andrew released from hospital after month stay
After being admitted to the hospital following Thanksgiving, infant heart transplant recipient Andrew Hagewood was released from the children’s hospital on Wednesday.
IISc discovery brings hope in cancer front – Times of India
IISc discovery brings hope in cancer front
Times of India BANGALORE: Biologists from Bangalore’s flagship Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have discovered a new molecular inhibitor that could lead to a major breakthrough in the development of new generation of anti-cancer drugs. The molecular inhibitor … |
Police probe transplant queue-jumpers
GERMAN authorities launched a probe into whether a hospital helped dozens of patients queue-jump waiting lists for liver transplants ahead of more urgent cases.
Organ transplants: India's body repair vacuum
When the 23-year-old physiotherapy student who was brutally assaulted in a Delhi bus was sent to a Singapore speciality hospital last week for a likely organ transplant, many in India asked why she died soon after she was sent abroad but the questions …
Organ transplants: India's body repair vacuum – Business Standard
Organ transplants: India’s body repair vacuum
Business Standard Neelam Mohan, director, department of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & liver transplantation, at Medanta-The Medicity Hospital, Gurgaon, said even the numbers for heart transplants are low because it can be given only by cadaveric donors or … |
First female newborn heart transplant recipient rides Rose Parade float on New Years Day
Leilah Dowsari (second from left) is presented with a well wishes poster at a Donate Life event on the evening of Saturday, December 29 from (left to right) the director of referral development at LLUMC Transplantation Institute, Julie Humeston; Americ…
Rituxan Add-On Curbs RA Joint Damage – MedPage Today
Rituxan Add-On Curbs RA Joint DamageMedPage TodayAdding the B-cell depleting agent rituximab (Rituxan) to methotrexate slowed joint damage progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) regardless of the level of disease activity, Austrian rese…