Too many readmissions to cost hospitalsAtlanta Journal ConstitutionReadmissions costly to hospitals photo. Jason Getz, jgetz@ajc.com. Physician Assistant Jennifer Matthews, left, talks with patient Robert Garofalo, of Woodstock, at the Heart Failure Cl…
Utah man holds bake sales to pay for liver transplant
Utah man holds bake sales to pay for liver transplant By kirsten stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 21, 2012 06:10PM MDT Editor’s note: This is a part of a package of stories about Utahns and medical debt. See Relates Stories box at left. Bo…
Virtual Liver may be cure for drug failures in clinical trials – Economic Times
Economic TimesVirtual Liver may be cure for drug failures in clinical trialsEconomic TimesBANGALORE: Kalyanasundaram Subramanian had lost count of the number of times pharma firms had asked him: "Do you have a good model for predicting drug toxici…
Transplant mum beats the odds
Twenty years ago a middle-aged woman from Girrawheen was pictured on the front page of The West Australian, excitedly waiting for a heart transplant that she hoped would give her a few more years of life to see her teenage son grow up.
FIFA secretary Valcke released from hospital in Brazil – Times of India
FIFA secretary Valcke released from hospital in BrazilTimes of IndiaRIO DE JANEIRO: FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has been released from a Brazilian hospital after recovering from a kidney infection. FIFA says Valcke returned home to Switzerland…
Blood donation at Ram Lal Paul Higher Secondary School – E-Pao.net
Blood donation at Ram Lal Paul Higher Secondary SchoolE-Pao.netImphal, October 21 2012: A voluntary blood donation com awareness campaign was conducted today at Ram Lal Paul Higher Secondary School. The programme was organised by Malem Care Foundation,…
Physicians can help heart patients 80% of the time – Times of India
Physicians can help heart patients 80% of the timeTimes of IndiaNAGPUR: Cardiologists believe that many a times a heart patient can manage his health well by consulting his family physician rather than rushing to a specialist. Not only will this make t…
Organ donation gaining acceptability
Renal transplant performed at MCH
Organ donation gaining acceptability – The Hindu
Organ donation gaining acceptabilityThe HinduThe growing acceptability of deceased donor organ transplantation programme amongst the public was once again to the fore as another family, who had lost its son/father, came forward to donate the organs to …
E. Donnall Thomas, Furthered Bone Marrow Transplants, Dies
Dr. Thomas showed it was possible to transplant bone marrow to save the lives of patients dying from blood cancer, a discovery that earned him a Nobel Prize.