The Jackson Citizen Patriot – MLive.comAllegiance Health receives national award for boosting organ donation effortsThe Jackson Citizen Patriot – MLive.comAbout 400,000 people joined the Michigan Organ Donor Registry in 2011, compared to 320,000 in 201…
Americans' heart devices reused safely in India – Reuters India
Americans' heart devices reused safely in IndiaReuters IndiaNEW YORK (Reuters Health) – U.S. patients' used heart devices can be safely implanted in seriously ill heart disease patients in the developing world, a study out Monday suggests. &quo…
Update: One heart patient may have gotten tainted drugs from Framingham pharmacy
Federal drug regulators now say only one heart transplant patient — not two – may have acquired a fungal infection from drugs made by a Framingham pharmacy, according to an update posted on the Food and Drug Administration website. On Monday, the FDA …
More poor patients can now benefit from Delhi govt assistance – Business Standard
More poor patients can now benefit from Delhi govt assistanceBusiness StandardPress Trust of India / New Delhi October 16, 2012, 21:15. Delhi Government today decided to expand scope of providing financial assistance to poor patients suffering from lif…
New infections cast suspicion on 2 more drugs
More issues have been reported with drugs from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to a deadly multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis, federal officials said Monday.
NIH $20 Million Transplant Grant Aims at Better Drugs and Long-term Organ … – HealthNewsDigest.com
NIH $20 Million Transplant Grant Aims at Better Drugs and Long-term Organ …HealthNewsDigest.comAlthough belatacept avoids some of the toxicity of earlier transplant drugs, it is associated with higher rates of reversible acute rejection. And because …
FDA: Injectible drugs from Mass. facility suspect
More issues have been reported with drugs from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to a deadly multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis, federal officials said Monday.
Micell Technologies Announces Clinical Data Presentations at TCT 2012 – Sacramento Bee
Micell Technologies Announces Clinical Data Presentations at TCT 2012Sacramento BeeDURHAM, N.C., Oct. 16, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Micell Technologies, Inc. today announced that data from clinical studies of its investigational MiStentĀ® Sirolimus Eluti…
Healer's Corner: Steroid-contaminated injections linked meningitis cases – Great Falls Tribune
Healer's Corner: Steroid-contaminated injections linked meningitis casesGreat Falls TribuneThis can be helpful in the case of rheumatoid disease such as rheumatoid arthritis or to suppress organ transplant rejection. However, if the medication is c…
Approached quack to gain weight, teenager boy battling for life, both kidneys … – Times of India
Approached quack to gain weight, teenager boy battling for life, both kidneys …Times of IndiaThe doctors said Lakhbir may have to go for kidney transplantation. Concerned over the development, the village elders on Tuesday assembled at local Gurdwara…