“Stem cells beat kidney rejection,” says BBC News. The broadcaster says that an injection of stem cells given alongside a kidney transplant could remove the need for a lifetime of treatment to suppress the immune system.
Stanford-Led Team Produces Personal Recombination Map From Individual's … – GenomeWeb
Stanford-Led Team Produces Personal Recombination Map From Individual's …GenomeWebIOM Workshop Discusses Interim Strategies to Handle Unresolved Challenges of Clinical Sequencing. July 27, 2011 / Clinical Sequencing News · Stanford Team De…
Natco targets drugs ripe for compulsory licensing – Livemint
Natco targets drugs ripe for compulsory licensingLivemintAccording to the World Health Organization, India has an estimated 29000 liver and kidney cancer patients at whom Nexavar is targeted. An email sent on Wednesday to the Organisation of Pharmaceut…
Heart of darkness in country's villages – Daily Pioneer
Heart of darkness in country's villagesDaily PioneerSocial philosophers such as the Victorian-era English art critic, John Ruskin, American author and poet Henry David Thoreau and Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy in the West and Mohandas Karamchand Gan…
Discussing health and heart with Deepak Chopra – Times of India
Discussing health and heart with Deepak ChopraTimes of IndiaLast month, I met this exuberant and inspirational prophet of well being in his New York home base and presented my vegetarian guide to Paris A Vegetarian in Paris (A Times of India publicatio…
India's cute and complex superstar – Times of India
Hindustan TimesIndia's cute and complex superstarTimes of IndiaFor those still trying to figure out how a man who wasn't very tall, didn't have a deep baritone but often had pimples could be India's first female heart-throb, here's …
OIG faults noncompliant drug billing for Medicare overpayments – FierceHealthcare
OIG faults noncompliant drug billing for Medicare overpaymentsFierceHealthcareJohnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon, Va., did not follow federal rules in billing Medicare for 31 reviewed items involving drug injections (doxorubicin hydrochloride lipos…
New weight-loss transplant program saves lives
Because of new weight loss-transplant efforts at University Hospital, overweight patients are getting transplants — and becoming healthy — quicker than anticipated.
Caspase Inhibitor Enters Clinical Trial In Islet Transplantation As Treatment For Diabetes
SAN DIEGO and EDMONTON, Alberta, July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. and the University of Alberta announced today the treatment of the first patient in an investigator-initiated …
Grappler with a big heart – Deccan Herald
Grappler with a big heartDeccan HeraldUnited in purpose with other grapplers, he leads the training session with an authoritative calm. The London Olympics is important for the Indian wrestlers to assure the billions at home of their steady rise and Su…