Cardio Notes: Shocks No Help for Afib in HFMedPage TodayHeart failure patients with atrial fibrillation gain little extra benefit when a defibrillator is added to a resynchronization device. Also this week, determining the risk of different stroke type…
Care and Consent: Who Are NHS Organ Donation Nurses? – Huffington Post UK (blog)
Care and Consent: Who Are NHS Organ Donation Nurses?Huffington Post UK (blog)The national consent rate for organ donation from the relatives of the terminally ill is around 60% and with three people in the United Kingdom dying every day because of lack…
Scientists to investigate preventing life-threatening complications in transplant patients
( University of Southampton ) Scientists from the University of Southampton have received a grant from the blood cancer charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research to explore ways of preventing life-threatening side effects in patients receiving bone marrow …
Morning Agenda: Man to give 600th blood donation – The Bay Citizen (blog)
Morning Agenda: Man to give 600th blood donationThe Bay Citizen (blog)Morning Agenda: Man to give 600th blood donation. Text Size; A; A; A. By Andy Wright |August 20, 2012 7:25 a.m. |In Morning Agenda. start discussion. 7 a.m. – The north entrance at…
Mom seeks heart transplant for autistic son – WFMJ
ABC NewsMom seeks heart transplant for autistic sonWFMJ… success of the surgery itself and over the longer term, as well as the potential interaction between a patient's existing drug therapies and the drugs that would be necessary to stop transp…
Odisha: Mega Blood Donation Camp 2012 organized by M/s. MSP Sponge Iron – Orissadiary.com
Orissadiary.comOdisha: Mega Blood Donation Camp 2012 organized by M/s. MSP Sponge IronOrissadiary.comReport by AR Khan; Keonjhar: A mega blood donation camp was organized by M/s. MSP Sponge Iron Ltd. Haldiaguna at its factory premises today at about 10…
Juventas Therapeutics doses first patient in Phase II STOP-HF trial – Sacramento Bee
Juventas Therapeutics doses first patient in Phase II STOP-HF trialSacramento BeeThe 90-patient, placebo-controlled, randomized double-blinded Phase II study is evaluating the safety and efficacy for JVS-100 in patients with late stage heart failure. D…
Indian Mujahideen founding member Mohammed Sajjid, key suspect in Pune … – Economic Times
Indian Mujahideen founding member Mohammed Sajjid, key suspect in Pune …Economic TimesLow intensity bombs were strapped on to three bicycles and dustbins in five coordinated multiple explosions at J M Road in the heart of Pune on August one leaving o…
GSK severe asthma drug progresses to Phase III – InPharm
InPharmGSK severe asthma drug progresses to Phase IIIInPharmThe year-long study, which involved 621 patients, found the number of clinically significant exacerbations in patients on GSK's drug – that is defined as episodes requiring oral corticos…
Grow new organs, or get them from animals? | Not Exactly Rocket Science
We don’t have enough organs. Due to our ageing population and the rising burden of chronic diseases, the organs of living people are failing. Meanwhile, those of the recently dead continue to be in short supply, despite well-funded initiatives to inc…