You really can die of a broken heartTimes of IndiaDr Alexander Lyon, a senior lecturer at London's Imperial College and consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, said this may have been a case of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a condition …
Helping lungs breathe easier in smoggy air – Hindustan Times
Helping lungs breathe easier in smoggy airHindustan TimesThis year, with smoke and fumes choking most of north and central India with smog that resembles a brown cloud, even people with healthy lungs are considering a day or two away from the town. Ast…
Japan's live organ donors enjoy better health than 'normal' citizens do
At age 56, Toshinobu Horiuchi was a desperate man. He had suffered kidney failure and needed a transplant. As a doctor, based in Tokyo, he knew better than most that he faced a long wait. In Japan, nearly 13,000 people, according to the Japan Organ Tra…
AHA: HF Tied to Higher Risk for Fatal Cancer – MedPage Today
AHA: HF Tied to Higher Risk for Fatal CancerMedPage TodayA cohort of patients diagnosed with heart failure at baseline were significantly more likely than participants in a control population without heart failure to develop cancer at follow-up (HR 1.5…
Boehringer Ingelheim to start late-stage hepatitis C drug trial
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boehringer Ingelheim said on Saturday it plans to initiate a late-stage clinical trial of its experimental hepatitis C treatment following promising results from earlier studies. The company announced final data from a mid-stage tria…
Gilead Sciences Reports Interim Data From Ongoing Phase 2 ELECTRON Trial
Gilead Sciences Reports Interim Data From Ongoing Phase 2 ELECTRON Trial
The Link between Acute Liver Failure and Bariatric Surgery – Sacramento Bee
The Link between Acute Liver Failure and Bariatric SurgerySacramento BeeBOSTON, Nov. 10, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Among patients with acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure (ALF), bariatric surgery was 25 times more common than in the general populat…
PM visits heart institute in Mumbai – Business Standard
PM visits heart institute in MumbaiBusiness StandardPM visits heart institute in Mumbai. Press Trust of India / Mumbai November 10, 2012, 19:35 … Dr Ramakant Panda, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the institute had, conducted a complex redo by…
ADO dies of heart attack during CM's programme – Business Standard
ADO dies of heart attack during CM's programmeBusiness StandardShankar Lal(57), posted as ADO at Majhka block in the district died of heart attack when he was distributing meal to the visitors after the programme of the chief minister, Chief Develo…
Act of compassion
The Global Hospital, Perumbakkam, had diagnosed that Sushmitha, a Class II student of Shri Natesan Vidyasala, Mannivakkam, should undergo a ‘liver transplant surgery’, at a considerable cost. The…