Lupus flare diagnostic to be developed under LabCorp, XDx partnershipMedCity NewsThe Brisbane, California company develops tests for monitoring transplant rejection as well as diagnostics for autoimmune diseases. XDx has a proprietary database of lupus…
Italy doctors save baby with smallest artificial heart
ROME (Reuters) – Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world's smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant. The doctors at Rome's Bambino Gesu hospital said t…
Exciting New Research Results Reported at the Recent European Society of … – MarketWatch (press release)
Exciting New Research Results Reported at the Recent European Society of …MarketWatch (press release)At the recently concluded European Heart Failure Congress results describing the clinical utility of ST2 in patients with heart failure were reported…
HeartWare Announces Publication Of Results From U.S. Bridge-To-Transplant … – Sacramento Bee
HeartWare Announces Publication Of Results From U.S. Bridge-To-Transplant …Sacramento BeeOn April 25, 2012, the FDA's Circulatory System Devices Advisory Committee voted 9 to 2 that the benefits outweigh the risks for the use of the HeartWare Ven…
Organ donor campaign looks to Bieber for plug – The Beacon Herald
Organ donor campaign looks to Bieber for plugThe Beacon HeraldMarcello said all three "generals" are helping to inspire others to think about organ donation. While he speaks in only broken English, Khatib said he's happy to do whatever he…
'Prednisolone's Considerable Effect On Bells Palsy Symptoms' – Medical News Today
PR Web (press release)'Prednisolone's Considerable Effect On Bells Palsy Symptoms'Medical News TodayA report in JAMA's May edition of Archives of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery reveals that by treating Bell's Palsy, a form…
Cytokinetics Announces Opening of Second Cohort in Phase IIb Clinical Trial of … – MarketWatch (press release)
Cytokinetics Announces Opening of Second Cohort in Phase IIb Clinical Trial of …MarketWatch (press release)The primary objective of this trial is to evaluate the effect of 48 hours of intravenous omecamtiv mecarbil compared to placebo on dyspnea (sho…
How transplant patients are turning to Facebook to appeal for organ donors
Transplant patients are turning to social networks in ever greater numbers in their desperate search for organs – and appear to be getting results. Researchers examined nearly 100 Facebook pages set up to find living kidney donors for patients aged fro…
NYU Langone surgeons perform robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy in New York – News-Medical.net
NYU Langone surgeons perform robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy in New YorkNews-Medical.netA team of urological surgeons from NYU Langone Medical Center performed a robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy in New York and beamed the procedure from New Yo…
Double-Lung Transplant Recipient Will Hold News Conference Today
Double-lung transplant recipient Helene Campbell is set to hold news conference today in Toronto to discuss her recovery. The 21-year old was diagnosed with lung disease last October and launched a Twitter campaign. That attracted the attention of cele…