Singer Natalie Cole still regrets leaving her ailing sisters side to undergo a kidney transplant – because her sibling passed away in the stars absence The Our Love hitmaker who was diagnosed with a kidney disease in 2009 was anxiously awaiting an org…
Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes Equivalent MI Predictors – Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network
Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes Equivalent MI PredictorsClinical Endocrinology News Digital NetworkThe risk of myocardial infarction is just as high in patients who have chronic kidney disease as in those who have diabetes, and their subsequent mortal…
New UCLA study reports which patients fare worse after heart … – eMaxHealth
eMaxHealthNew UCLA study reports which patients fare worse after heart …eMaxHealthNew UCLA study reports which patients fare worse after heart transplantation … surgical director of the heart and lung transplantation program at UCLA.and more &…
Pfizer says FDA wants a new study of Vyndaqel
Pfizer Inc. said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has asked the company to run another clinical trial of its neurodegenerative disease drug Vyndaqel.
Chicago Woman Cured of Sickle Cell Disease – Newswise (press release)
Chicago Woman Cured of Sickle Cell DiseaseNewswise (press release)Newswise — Chicagoan Ieshea Thomas is the first Midwest patient to receive a successful stem cell transplant to cure her sickle cell disease without …and more »
In Follicular Lymphoma, Rituximab 'Retreatment' Better Than … – Clinical Oncology News
Clinical Oncology NewsIn Follicular Lymphoma, Rituximab 'Retreatment' Better Than …Clinical Oncology NewsSan Diego—In previously untreated patients with low tumor burden (LTB) follicular lymphoma (FL), new Phase III data suggests that maint…
Edwin Poots criticised over African blood donation remark – BBC News
BBC NewsEdwin Poots criticised over African blood donation remarkBBC NewsNorthern Ireland's health minister Edwin Poots is facing fresh criticism over his comments about blood donation, this time from the African community. On Sunday …
‘My heart transplant joy’
A MOTHER from York who was given only weeks to live has told how a heart transplant saved her life – and has urged others to join the Organ Donor Register.
Survival rates lower for heart transplant patients whose arteries reclose after stenting
( University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences ) New research by UCLA researchers and colleagues has found that heart transplant patients who develop restenosis after receiving a stent have poor long-term survival.
Digoxin (made from foxgloves) is used to treat heart disease – NHS Choices
NHS ChoicesDigoxin (made from foxgloves) is used to treat heart diseaseNHS ChoicesAn “extract from poisonous Foxglove can protect against high blood pressure and heart failure”, the Daily Mail has reported. It does this by enhancing the …Herb fox…