Grapevine: Giving life – a family affair
Jerusalem Post He established Matnat Chaim (gift of life), which not only encourages organ donation but also helps both donor and recipient through all the bureaucratic hassles. □ MANY JEWISH boys raised in the Soviet Union missed out on having a bar mitzva. |
Link between obesity and kidney transplant may sideline applicable patients … – PhysBizTech
Link between obesity and kidney transplant may sideline applicable patients …PhysBizTechFor the authors, the BMI measure must be reassessed in further study and a new upper limit established so that patients with obesity, who stand to inherit more ne…
Publisher Milner-Fenwick Partners with the American Association of Heart … – Newswise (press release)
Publisher Milner-Fenwick Partners with the American Association of Heart …
Newswise (press release) Newswise — Hunt Valley, MD — January 15, 2013 – Milner-Fenwick, a multi-media publisher for the healthcare community, and the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN) announced a partnership which includes the AAHFN’s endorsement … |
Pneumonia top killer in Davao
PNEUMONIA is the leading cause of death in Davao City for two straight years, according to the City Health Office (CHO) on Tuesday. Records from the CHO revealed that the disease has been ranked as number one among the top 10 leading causes of mortalit…
Theater motivates teen in need of transplant
Seventeen-year-old Haley Wilson has not let the need for a kidney transplant slow her down.
Partial Nephrectomy PSMs Do Not Raise Death Risk – Renal and Urology News
Partial Nephrectomy PSMs Do Not Raise Death RiskRenal and Urology NewsPositive surgical margins (PSMs) after partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are more common than previously reported, but they have no significant effect on five-year s…
Survey shows decreased ESA use for dialysis, chronic kidney disease patients – NephrologyNews.com
Survey shows decreased ESA use for dialysis, chronic kidney disease patientsNephrologyNews.comESA use is also declining in patients with stage 3 and 4 chronic kidney disease. The surveyed nephrologists said they expect ESA use to continue to decline ov…
How to Maximize the Potential of mTOR Inhibitors in Breast Cancer—More … – Cancer Network
How to Maximize the Potential of mTOR Inhibitors in Breast Cancer—More …
Cancer Network In this issue of ONCOLOGY, Shaveta Vinayak and Robert Carlson thoroughly summarize the preclinical and clinical studies of mTOR inhibitors, by breast cancer subtype, in both the metastatic and the adjuvant or neoadjuvant setting. Current clinical … |
Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Management Strategies – Pharmacy Times
Pharmacy TimesAcute Decompensated Heart Failure Management StrategiesPharmacy TimesMore than 6.5 million adults in the United States have heart failure, the prevalence of which is expected to increase by 25% by the year 2030. 1 Admission rates for hear…
mTOR Inhibitors in the Treatment of Breast Cancer – Cancer Network
mTOR Inhibitors in the Treatment of Breast CancerCancer NetworkHowever, two independent trials have recently shown that combination everolimus (Afinitor) and tamoxifen or combination everolimus and exemestane (Aromasin) is more effective than either en…