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Organ Transplantation: A Clinical Guide – Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
Organ Transplantation: A Clinical GuideJournal of American Medical Association (subscription)The well-written “Immunological Principles of Acute Rejection” chapter, for instance, provides an accessible summary of a vast and increasing clinical fiel…
Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the … – Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the …Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)Their additional assertion is that brain death is a mistaken view of death, because individuals exhibiting brain deat…
With Illumina Acquisition on Ice, What is Roche's Next Move in the Sequencing … – GenomeWeb
With Illumina Acquisition on Ice, What is Roche's Next Move in the Sequencing …GenomeWebThis includes sample prep, bioinformatics, and assays such as multiplexing kits or HLA typing kits. Roche has already made strides in that direction, launchin…
Quebec teen awaits heart transplant
Fifteen-year-old Vincent Lambert has been waiting for a heart transplant for 219 days and counting, kept alive at Montreal Children's Hospital by a mechanical heart.
Cincinnati Children's Heart Institute First in Nation To Receive Pediatric … – MarketWatch (press release)
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12-Year-Old Middle Schooler Loses Fight with Cancer – Patch.com
12-Year-Old Middle Schooler Loses Fight with CancerPatch.comAfter being diagnosed at age 7 with Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor (ATRT), Sudo underwent chemo and radiation therapy, in addition to a stem cell transplant. He remained cancer-free for two …
Lung Transplant Recipient Thrives Nearly 20 Years Later – HealthNewsDigest.com
Lung Transplant Recipient Thrives Nearly 20 Years LaterHealthNewsDigest.comThe medical center, which began its lung transplantation program in 1990, has an 86 percent survival rate one year after surgery and a 75 percent survival rate three years after…
Georgetown University, hospitals audited for Medicare overpayments – FierceHealthcare
Georgetown University, hospitals audited for Medicare overpaymentsFierceHealthcareIn its review of injection drugs (doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome, rituximab, pemetrexed, cetuximab and epoetin alfa), OIG found that O'Connor Hospital in San Jose…
Pulmonary HTN Predicts Heart Failure After Acute MI – MD News (press release)
MD News (press release)Pulmonary HTN Predicts Heart Failure After Acute MIMD News (press release)Pulmonary hypertension is a strong independent predictor of heart failure in patients with acute myocardial infarction, according to a study published in t…