The U.S.Food and Drug Administration has approved a DNA test to ascertain how transplant patients respond to treatment for cytomegalovirus or CMV, according to an FDA statement, to improve post-surgery recovery. The COBAS AmpliPrep / COBAS TaqMan CMV T…
Dallas patient receives wrong kidney
Methodist Dallas Medical Center has suspended its transplant program after a transplanted kidney ended up in the wrong patient.
Four give life to 10 in death through Cadaver organ donation – Daily Bhaskar
Four give life to 10 in death through Cadaver organ donationDaily BhaskarCadaver organ donation has brought seven kidney transplantations in two.
Four Top Stocks With Big Earnings Estimates – Investor's Business Daily
Four Top Stocks With Big Earnings EstimatesInvestor’s Business Daily… during a market correction, and several names from Your Weekly Review are doing just that right now. Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN), whose specialty is treatments for cancer, auto-…
Organ donors 'live on' in other people's bodies when they die, says advocate – Malaysia Star
Malaysia StarOrgan donors 'live on' in other people's bodies when they die, says advocateMalaysia StarChew, whose organisation runs the organ donation campaign “Spread Love, Save Lives”, said donors' actions would go a long way towa…
Wrong Patient Receives Organ From Methodist Medical Center
The kidney and pancreas transplant program at Methodist Medical Center has been put on hold after a patient was given a kidney meant for someone else, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed.
Test approved to help treat common infection in transplant patients – Medical Xpress
Test approved to help treat common infection in transplant patientsMedical Xpresskidney transplant patients, food and drug administration, dna testing, organ transplant, viral load, viral infections, immune system, new test, newborns, pancreas, pneumon…
Ovary transplant breakthrough lets women give birth in older age
LONDON: Women will be able to give birth in old age following an ovary transplant breakthrough that means they can postpone menopause until well after their 50s.
Darboy boy Charlie Knuth fighting mysterious virus – Appleton Post Crescent
Darboy boy Charlie Knuth fighting mysterious virusAppleton Post CrescentCharlie Knuth and his mother, Trisha, in their Darboy home recently, nearly a year after Charlie underwent a stem cell transplant. Charlie has the life-threatening disease epidermo…
No heart operations at Sassoon for lack of funds – Times of India
No heart operations at Sassoon for lack of fundsTimes of IndiaPune: Poor people who have been advised heart surgeries have been waiting for their turn at the Sassoon general hospital for almost two months now.