White boosts Heartland organ donation driveWJBC NewsIllinois Secretary of State Jesse White speaks at Heartland Community College in Normal on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (Photo by Ryan Denham/WJBC) NORMAL – Secretary of State Jesse White challenged H…
Kidney Donation: How Do You Match Up? – Huffington Post (blog)
Kidney Donation: How Do You Match Up?Huffington Post (blog)An HLA typing laboratory determines antigens for each transplant patient and catalogs them into three different types: HLA-A, HLA-B and HLA-DR. The genes for these unique antigens are found on …
Updated Measures Assess Heart Failure Care – Family Practice News Digital Network
Updated Measures Assess Heart Failure CareFamily Practice News Digital NetworkA set of nine performance measures aimed at assessing whether adults with heart failure are receiving the best care was issued by the American College of Cardiology Foundatio…
Sign an organ-donation card, and save a life – Montreal Gazette
Financial Post (blog)Sign an organ-donation card, and save a lifeMontreal GazetteThey stress that it is never too soon or too late to be an organ donor; recent Canadian donors have ranged in age from seniors approaching 90 to babies only a few days old…
Becoming an organ donor not such a simple process – Financial Post (blog)
Financial Post (blog)Becoming an organ donor not such a simple processFinancial Post (blog)Before Ottawa's Helene Campbell received her double lung transplant on April 6th, her campaign to raise organ donation awareness was so compelling that it at…
London researchers get national accolades – MetroNews Canada
London researchers get national accoladesMetroNews CanadaAt the recent meeting of the Canadian Society of Transplantation, researchers presented advances that may significantly decrease the likelihood of transplant rejection and improve patients' q…
Cord blood donation program turns medical waste into a lifesaving resource – Scope (blog)
Scope (blog)Cord blood donation program turns medical waste into a lifesaving resourceScope (blog)And the hospital's new cord blood donation program will give all its new moms the option to donate their baby's cord blood to an international ste…
Biofortuna, Abbott Extend Distribution Deal – GenomeWeb
Biofortuna, Abbott Extend Distribution DealGenomeWebUnder the new agreement, Abbott will distribute Biofortuna's SSPGo range of freeze dried HLA typing kits in France, Spain, Portugal, and the Benelux countries. With this new agreement, Abbott now …
'Rogue DNA' plays key role in heart failure, study shows – Science Codex
Zee News'Rogue DNA' plays key role in heart failure, study showsScience CodexDNA from the heart's own cells plays a role in heart failure by mistakenly activating the body's immune system, according to a study by British and Japanese re…
Infection claims Hamilton heart-transplant girl Nicole Cassavetes days after … – Hamilton Spectator
Infection claims Hamilton heart-transplant girl Nicole Cassavetes days after …Hamilton SpectatorNicole had the transplant surgery April 13 and died after contracting an infection. In the weeks leading up to her surgery and in the days afterwards, man…