Liver Transplantation And Living DonorsBig News Network.comResearchers in Japan report that health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for donors following living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) was better than the general Japanese population (the norm)…
Damini, rickshaw puller's baby, discharged from hospital – NDTV
NDTVDamini, rickshaw puller's baby, discharged from hospitalNDTVBut she is far healthier now than when she grabbed India's heart, slung to her father's chest as he ferried people in his cycle-rickshaw in Bharatpur in Rajasthan. She was then…
News briefs: Rituximab biosimilar; Watson to change name; Baxter Brazil plans … – The Pharma Letter
News briefs: Rituximab biosimilar; Watson to change name; Baxter Brazil plans …The Pharma LetterThe Sandoz follicular lymphoma Phase III clinical trial for biosimilar monoclonal antibody rituximab, a biosimilar of Roche's Rituxan/MabThera (which …
Novartis gets another approval for everolimus in EU – PharmaTimes
Novartis gets another approval for everolimus in EUPharmaTimesSpecifically, the approval for Volubia (everolimus) is for aforementioned patients who are at risk of complications (based on factors such as tumour size or presence of aneurysm) but who do …
Faith groups' organ donation law change 'reservations' – BBC News
BBC NewsFaith groups' organ donation law change 'reservations'BBC NewsThe Welsh government's plans to change the rules surrounding organ donation have been criticised from within the Jewish and Muslim communities. The government wants t…
Blood donation fends off diabetes, discovers Karnataka health minister – Daily News & Analysis
Blood donation fends off diabetes, discovers Karnataka health ministerDaily News & AnalysisLet alone the right to information; in what can be seen as blatant disinformation with a comic twist on the part of our health minister Aravinda Limbavali, he ha…
Scots heart transplant survivor meets surgeon 30 years after being told op would keep him alive five more years
JOHN McCAFFERTY, now 70, was told he'd live five more years after the transplant in 1982 and revealed he believed the other 25 years have "been a bonus".
Organ donation: Jewish, Muslim presumed consent worries – BBC News
BBC NewsOrgan donation: Jewish, Muslim presumed consent worriesBBC NewsPlans to introduce presumed consent organ donation in Wales face opposition from within the Jewish and Muslim communities. … It would mean everyone is deemed to be a willing organ…
Common drug doesn't significantly lower death risk – Times of India
Common drug doesn't significantly lower death riskTimes of IndiaCinacalcet — a drug commonly prescribed to patients with kidney failure and a disturbance of bone and mineral metabolism known as secondary hyperparathyroidism — does not significa…
Cystic kidney growth curbed
Several million people worldwide suffer from the genetic disorder polycystic kidney disease. Previously, only the symptoms of the disease could be treated. Teaming up with colleagues, researchers from the University of Zurich have now succeeded in curb…