Researchers have built pancreatic tissue with insulin-secreting cells, surrounded by a three-dimensional network of blood vessels. When they transplanted the tissue into diabetic mice, the cells began functioning well enough to lower blood sugar levels…
Reasons To Own AbbVie After Abbott Splits In Two – Seeking Alpha
Reasons To Own AbbVie After Abbott Splits In TwoSeeking AlphaAbbott also expects Phase III results for Daclizumab in 2014. The drug is used to treat multiple sclerosis, an inflammatory disease affecting the nervous system affecting an estimated 2.1 mil…
Celebrating Liberal Arts – Bucknell University
Celebrating Liberal ArtsBucknell UniversityKen Field. Associate professor of biology. "If these drugs are found to specifically block transplant rejection without generally suppressing the immune system, it would be very exciting." › Full s…
Charlie Knuth out of hospital after second stem-cell transplant – WTAQ
Charlie Knuth out of hospital after second stem-cell transplantWTAQMINNEAPOLIS (WTAQ) – A six-year-old Fox Valley boy with a rare skin disease has been released from a hospital after his second stem-cell transplant. His father says Charlie Knuth of Dar…
Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh dies of multiple-organ failure
Deshmukh's condition deteriorated after failing to procure a liver for a transplant.
Attempt to harvest liver from Mumbai donor came unstuck:Chavan – Business Standard
Attempt to harvest liver from Mumbai donor came unstuck:ChavanBusiness StandardPress Trust of India / New Delhi August 14, 2012, 20:05. A fresh attempt to harvest a liver for Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh came unstuck today and the senior leader pas…
Medgenics Appoints Dr. Marvin Garovoy as Chief Medical Officer
Medgenics, Inc. , the developer of Biopump™, a novel technology for the sustained production and delivery of therapeutic proteins in patients using their own tissue, is pleased to announce the appointment of Marvin Garovoy, M.D.
Chandigarh based radio programme completes six years – Times of India
Chandigarh based radio programme completes six yearsTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More … The public has been made aware about issues like body donation, organ donation, drug de-addiction, eye donation, blood d…
Liver transplant could have given Vilasrao Deshmukh a chance: Hospital
Dr K Ravindranath, chairman of Gobal Hospitals, which specialises in transplants, said Mr Deshmukh had been on the emergency list for a cadaver organ transplant; he needed a full liver. But no donor… Related Stories Tributes to Vilasrao Deshmukh Vila…
Former world heavyweight champion Dokes dies – Times of India
Former world heavyweight champion Dokes diesTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More … Former world heavyweight champion Michael Dokes, 54, has died after losing a battle with liver cancer, the World Boxing Associat…