Black patients aged less than 35 years and without private insurance are less likely to receive assessment for kidney transplant on starting dialysis than other individuals, researchers report.
Drug-eluting stents cleared for diabetes patients – News-Medical.net
Drug-eluting stents cleared for diabetes patientsNews-Medical.netIndeed, there was an 87% probability that everolimus-eluting stents were more efficacious than the other stents analyzed, which included sirolimus-eluting stents, paclitaxel-eluting stent…
Bendamustine Impressive For Lymphomas – Clinical Oncology News
Clinical Oncology NewsBendamustine Impressive For LymphomasClinical Oncology NewsChicago—The combination of bendamustine and rituximab (B-R) is superior to CHOP (cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin, vincristine and prednisone) plus rituximab (CHOP-…
Qatar opens organ donation centre – Al-Shorfa
Al-ShorfaQatar opens organ donation centreAl-Shorfa… EMAIL; increase decrease. Qatar launched its first organ donation centre last week on Wednesday (August 8th), with First Lady Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Misnad becoming the first person to regist…
Vilasrao Deshmukh is dead – Deccan Herald
Vilasrao Deshmukh is deadDeccan HeraldThough his sons wished to donate part of their liver (for an auxiliary transplant), the doctors said given the patient's condition, “it would be better for him to receive a whole organ from a cadaver as that …
Heart failure drug approved by EU – Queensferry Gazette
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Firefly sheds new light on Bronson Battle Creek surgeries – Battle Creek Enquirer
Firefly sheds new light on Bronson Battle Creek surgeriesBattle Creek EnquirerDr. Kevin Brewton, an urologist and member of the BBC medical staff is the first physician in Southwest Michigan to use this minimally invasive surgery technology for a parti…
Doctors waited four days for suitable donor
Mumbai, Aug. 15 — Doctors treating former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, in Chennai, waited for four days to find a liver donor for him, but failed to find a suitable match.Deshmukh was advised a liver transplant after he was diagnosed …
Pa. Mom’s Efforts For Heart Transplant For Autistic Son Highlights Complexity Of Decision
A Schuylkill County, Pa. mother has turned to an online petition web site to try to get a Philadelphia hospital to put her adult son on a heart transplant list.
Vilasrao Deshmukh died of cardiac arrest: Doctor – Times of India
Vilasrao Deshmukh died of cardiac arrest: DoctorTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More … MUMBAI: Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh died of cardiac failure, said renowned doctor Mohammed Rela of Chennai's Global…