Low Vitamin D Linked to Poorer Outcomes in Lung RecipientsDoctors LoungeFor lung transplant recipients, 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency is associated with increased incidence of acute rejection and infection, and deficiency at one year after transplant …
Multiple CT Scans Add Minimal Additional Cancer Risk – Medscape
Multiple CT Scans Add Minimal Additional Cancer RiskMedscapeExclusion criteria were a GCS score of 3, bilateral fixed pupils, imminent brain death, and loss to follow-up or death within 1 year of injury. Patients received a median of 20 CT scans in the…
Gozo blood donation opportunity and health awareness day – Gozo News
Gozo NewsGozo blood donation opportunity and health awareness dayGozo NewsThe Blood Donation Area at Gozo General Hospital is going to be open this coming Sunday, the 6th of May, from 8.30am till 1.00pm for those who wish to make a blood donation and d…
Bio-Solutions Corp Fully Pursuing $15 Billion Type II and Pre-Diabetic Marketplace
MONTREAL– – Bio-Solutions Corp is pleased to announce a new era. The company will be changing its core business away from GREENEX™ and NutraAnimal™, in order to focus entirely on Type2 Defense™. Type2 …
Identifying patients who benefit most from immune suppressant – Medical Xpress
Identifying patients who benefit most from immune suppressantMedical XpressA new analysis may help doctors identify breast cancer patients who will benefit from treatment with the immune suppressant drug everolimus, say French researchers at the 4th IM…
St. Ambrose announces spring commencement speaker – Quad-Cities Online
St. Ambrose announces spring commencement speakerQuad-Cities OnlineDAVENPORT, Iowa—A transplant surgery pioneer will deliver the 2012 St. Ambrose University Spring Commencement address Saturday, May 12. Dr. Richard Wood will receive an honorary docto…
8 SynCardia Certified Centers & Surgeons Honored for Use of Total Artificial … – Sacramento Bee
8 SynCardia Certified Centers & Surgeons Honored for Use of Total Artificial …Sacramento Bee… surgeons for their use of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart and the Freedom® portable driver during the annual meeting of the Internatio…
The organ donation community is applauding Facebook's announcement this week … – Poughkeepsie Journal
The organ donation community is applauding Facebook's announcement this week …Poughkeepsie JournalJohn Hoffman isn't a doctor. He doesn't even play one on TV.- 11:42 pm "One state trooper issued eight tickets in one hour while patrol…
Also in the press – OnMedica
Also in the pressOnMedicaSupplements taken to reduce blood pressure can interfere with anti-clotting drugs and cyclosporine, an immunosuppressant medicine, which prevents transplant rejection, says the Mail. The Wall Street Journal (p6) says: “The fi…
Cryo-Cell International Taps Leader in Stem Cell Therapy to Serve as Chief … – MarketWatch (press release)
Cryo-Cell International Taps Leader in Stem Cell Therapy to Serve as Chief …MarketWatch (press release)Dr. Kelley is an internationally recognized, cord blood stem cell scientist whose accomplishments have helped expand the scope of stem cell therapi…