Home care better for heart failure6minutesHome-based care for patients with chronic heart failure leads to fewer days of hospitalisation and much lower healthcare costs compared to specialist clinic-based treatment, Australian researchers have found. R…
Uterus Transplant – Dr. Ash Hanafy – ABC Online (blog)
Uterus Transplant – Dr. Ash HanafyABC Online (blog)The world's first uterus transplant operations from mother to a daugther have been performed in Sweden. Gold Coast obstetrician Dr. Ash Hanafy was the only Australian doctor on the medical team who…
Scientists prevent heart failure in mice – BioScholar News
BioScholar NewsScientists prevent heart failure in miceBioScholar NewsCardiac stress, for example a heart attack or high blood pressure, frequently leads to pathological heart growth and subsequently to heart failure. Two tiny RNA molecules play a key …
Organised healthcare splinters into niches – Daily News & Analysis
Organised healthcare splinters into nichesDaily News & AnalysisWhile kidney care and dialysis centres are usually spread across 1,500-2,000 sq ft. Demand for them has risen as an estimated 2-3 lakh people develop kidney failure every year in India. Cha…
Giving Hope To Heart, Kidney – Leadership Newspapers
Giving Hope To Heart, KidneyLeadership NewspapersThe same statistics revealed that it cost an average of 12 pounds or $18,000 in the United States and Israel and about $12 in India to access treatment in the best government hospitals. Considering the c…
Liver transplant: Pims centre told to resume operation – DAWN.com
Liver transplant: Pims centre told to resume operationDAWN.comA senior physician treating liver patients at a private hospital added that many of “these patients have end-stage liver disease for which the only treatment is transplantation.” He said…
Take a 'pause', women's heart at risk – Daily News & Analysis
Take a 'pause', women's heart at riskDaily News & AnalysisIf you thought women were less vulnerable to heart ailments, think again. A recent report discussed in the World Congress of Cardiology this year said that cardiac diseases has incre…
Fundraiser to be held for double lung transplant recipient
MT. WASHINGTON, Ky. (WHAS11) — A young woman from Mt. Washington is in St. Louis Tuesday night awaiting a double lung transplant. Earlier in September I reported on Christena Gabehart Jones and her fight to get a second double lung transplant. Seven y…
Watch & Wait OK in Low-Tumor Burden Follicular Lymphoma – Doctors Lounge
Watch & Wait OK in Low-Tumor Burden Follicular LymphomaDoctors LoungeAn initial watch-and-wait strategy does not have a detrimental effect on the freedom from treatment failure or overall survival rate in selected patients with low-tumor burden fol…
Bike rally to encourage blood donation – Times of India
Bike rally to encourage blood donationTimes of IndiaPATNA: Students and teachers of St. Xavier's College (SXC), Digha, organized a motorcycle rally on Tuesday to encourage Patnaites to donate blood ahead of National Blood Donation Day to be observe…