Late-breaking clinical trialsScience CodexResearchers Ganesh Raghu, MD, and colleagues found an increased risk of mortality and hospitalizations in patients treated with a combination of prednisone, azathioprine and NAC, compared with controls treated …
Boehringer Ingelheim Presents First Data for Tiotropium in Adolescents with … – Sacramento Bee
Boehringer Ingelheim Presents First Data for Tiotropium in Adolescents with …Sacramento BeeThis dose-ranging study evaluated 105 patients 12 to 17 years of age with moderate, persistent asthma on medium dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) with or with…
Can Oxygen Help Chronic Heart Failure Patients? – Medical News Today
Can Oxygen Help Chronic Heart Failure Patients?Medical News TodayAround 669000 people in the UK over the age of 45 years suffer from chronic heart failure (CHF), a condition in which the heart is too weak to efficiently pump the blood around the body. …
Edward Hospital earns national recognition for heart failure program – Positively Naperville
Edward Hospital earns national recognition for heart failure programPositively NapervilleEdward Hospital has received the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) for its excell…
New Guide on Stroke Prevention in HF – MedPage Today
New Guide on Stroke Prevention in HFMedPage TodayNote that this consensus document provides guidelines for the use of antithrombotic therapy in patients with heart failure who are in sinus rhythm. Note that the document indicates that there is no evide…
AUA 2012 – Regionalization of renal surgery: Impact of hospital volume on … – UroToday
AUA 2012 – Regionalization of renal surgery: Impact of hospital volume on …UroTodayATLANTA, GA USA (UroToday) – Presented by Marc C. Smaldone, 1 Jay Simhan, 1 Daniel Canter, 2 Russell Starkey, 3 Fang Zhu, 1 Karyn Stitzenberg, 4 Alexander Kutikov,* ,1…
“Networks” succeed in finding kidney donors: John Hopkins program reports
Johns Hopkins researchers say a program they developed that uses personal advocates and community networks to find organ donors for friends and loved ones who need kidney transplants resulted in success for nearly half of the participants in its trial …
18,000 patients waiting for organ transplant in Iran
The director of the organ transplant society announced recently that about 18,000 patients are waiting for organ transplant in the country.
Research and Markets: Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient, 4th Edition
Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Medical Care of the Li
New research examines impact of liver disease
Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® offers insights into the progression of diseases leading to liver damage, which affect diverse populations, including young people. Studies show that the increasing rates of obesity are putting teens…