Statins prevent cancer and reduce death from all causes in heart transplant recipients. The findings were independent of cholesterol levels.
500 students walk to help transplant patient
Jack Moser wants to eat pizza. It’s such a simple request for a 5-year-old, but nearly impossible.
Girl died of heart failure, Gwaze trial told – Radio New Zealand
Girl died of heart failure, Gwaze trial toldRadio New ZealandA medical expert has told a High Court murder trial in Christchurch that a girl died of heart failure caused by an overwhelming septic shock. Zimbabwean vet George Gwaze, 60, is on trial in r…
Army Wives Review: Here We Go Again – TV Fanatic
Army Wives Review: Here We Go AgainTV FanaticThe question about who got the third star was answered, transplant surgery was started and Marcus was lightly let into the Burton family. Let's get going! No matter how you try to wrap up a broken gift, …
Partial nephrectomy found underused in poorer, sicker patients – ModernMedicine
Partial nephrectomy found underused in poorer, sicker patientsModernMedicineDespite its well-established advantages over radical surgery, partial nephrectomy is not as likely to be used for older, sicker, and poorer patients who are uninsured or rely o…
Findings May Improve Mortality Predictions for RCC Patients – Renal and Urology News
Findings May Improve Mortality Predictions for RCC PatientsRenal and Urology NewsATLANTA—New findings may better enable clinicians to predict cancer-specific and other-cause mortality among patients who have undergone nephrectomy for renal cell carci…
Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsDominicans weigh comeback for brash ex-president
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) – Dominicans formed orderly lines at voting stations across the country Sunday to choose a new president from a field that includes a brash former president whose last term ended with an economic crisis and a tech…
Burlington man meets organ donor who saved his life – Hamilton Spectator
Burlington man meets organ donor who saved his lifeHamilton SpectatorThe two strangers at the centre of Hamilton's first and only four-way kidney transplant have been emailing each other since January. They discovered they both have cottages in Hun…
World's First Stem Cell Drug From Osiris : Approved!
There is great news for parents suffering the harrowing ordeal of their child needing a bone marrow transplant. The announcement came from Osiris Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIR) on Friday that Health Canada has approved its groundbreaking stem cell th…
Toxic mushrooms: Drug promises new cure
A investigational drug derived from milk thistle seeds helped save the lives — and livers — of four people in the Washington, D.C., area who accidentally ate toxic mushrooms last fall. If approved, it could become standard treatment, experts say.