Biomarkers in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection FractionHealthCanal.comScientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Froedtert Hospital received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southea…
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Till a month ago, Chhattisgarh resident Kumud Patel, 26, and Mumbai resident Bharti Thakkar, 50, were complete strangers. They have only one thing in common – both suffer from end stage kidney disease and require urgent kidney transplants.
UTMC nurse resigns after botched kidney transplant
After accidentally throwing away a kidney that was about to be used in a transplant surgery, a University of Toledo Medical Center nurse has resigned.
Scientists Discover How an Out-of-Tune Protein Leads to Muscle Demise in Heart Failure
A new Johns Hopkins study has unraveled the changes in a key cardiac protein that can lead to heart muscle malfunction and precipitate heart failure.
'Berlin Patient,' doctor convinced HIV cure is real
More than five years after a radical treatment, a San Francisco man and his German doctor are convinced that he remains the first person cured of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.Timothy Ray Brown, who is known as…
Dr. Gibbon's heart-lung machine thrives against the odds – DOTmed.com
Dr. Gibbon's heart-lung machine thrives against the oddsDOTmed.com… a cat alive for 26 minutes with a prototype heart-lung bypass machine. He continued experimenting on cats and dogs, until taking a leave of absence from his promising research to…
5 years after stem cell transplant, 'Berlin Man' has no doubt unique treatment cured HIV
ST. LOUIS – More than five years after a radical treatment, a San Francisco man and his German doctor are convinced that he remains the first person cured of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
UTMC nurse resigns following botched kidney transplant
The fallout continues over the botched kidney transplant at the University of Toledo Medical Center.
Donors like giving up kidney through belly button – ScienceBlog.com (blog)
Donors like giving up kidney through belly buttonScienceBlog.com (blog)In 2003, UMMC urologist Michael W. Phelan, M.D., a co-author of this Annals of Surgery paper, published a study on the advances in laparoscopic nephrectomy, which accurately predict…
Texas mom gets go-ahead for historic double-arm transplant
Katy Hayes, the Texas mom who lost all four limbs to a childbed infection, has been okayed for a double arm transplant by doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She’ll be the first person in the U.S.