'Excellent' Survival Seen for Liver Transplant From Live DonoriVillage Entertainment11 (HealthDay News) — The 10-year survival rate for patients with acute liver failure who had a living donor liver transplant was 73 percent, a study of patien…
Device Aims To Help Congestive Heart Failure Patients – CBS Local
CBS LocalDevice Aims To Help Congestive Heart Failure PatientsCBS LocalSomething this woman with congestive heart failure is grateful for because without their research trial, she was heading toward a heart transplant. “I was actually relieved that t…
Organs in wrong spots, but gastric bypass successful – Times of India
Organs in wrong spots, but gastric bypass successfulTimes of IndiaAHMEDABAD: Forty-three-year-old Panna Mistry found that all her vital organs in the body – heart, lungs, liver and stomach – were 'mirrored', or lay in the direction opposite to …
Active follow-up with telephone help can reduce deaths in chronic heart … – Medical Xpress
Active follow-up with telephone help can reduce deaths in chronic heart …Medical XpressChronic heart failure (CHF) patients are less likely to have died a year after discharge if they are involved in a programme of active follow-up once they have ret…
Renal Transplantation Is Best Treatment Option for Improving Quality of Life … – Science Daily (press release)
Renal Transplantation Is Best Treatment Option for Improving Quality of Life …Science Daily (press release)11, 2012) — In people with late-stage chronic kidney disease, renal transplantation is the best treatment option to improve quality of life, …
Officer's Organ Donation Details Released
The California Transplant Donor Network has released details on the people who received organs from CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom. Photo Credit: CHP
CHP's Kenyon Youngstrom Organ Donation Details Released – NBC Bay Area
San Francisco ChronicleCHP's Kenyon Youngstrom Organ Donation Details ReleasedNBC Bay AreaCHP's Kenyon Youngstrom Organ Donation Details Released. Four lives were changed for the better following the tragic death of CHP officer Kenyon Youngstro…
Study Questions Daily Asthma Meds – ABC News (blog)
AFPStudy Questions Daily Asthma MedsABC News (blog)Unlike albuterol, a medicine that opens the airways and is used only to treat symptoms or asthma attacks, patients on inhaled corticosteroids are told to use this medicine even when they are not having…
Less Aggressive Surgery Linked to Improved Survival in Older Patients With … – OncLive
OncLiveLess Aggressive Surgery Linked to Improved Survival in Older Patients With …OncLivePartial nephrectomy is associated with better overall survival than radical nephrectomy in older patients with early-stage kidney cancer, according to the resul…
Peterborough hospital passes organ donor registration target on first day of … – Kawartha Media Group
Peterborough hospital passes organ donor registration target on first day of …Kawartha Media GroupOne organ donor has the potential to save eight lives and enhance 75 others through tissue donation. Danielle Dimovski, a double kidney transplant recip…