New findings on older women having babies, stem cells extracted during liposuction, and the latest on a stem cell trachial transplant.
Cytokinetics Announces Heart Failure Program Update – PipelineReview.com (press release)
Cytokinetics Announces Heart Failure Program UpdatePipelineReview.com (press release)Based on the review of these data, the companies have selected oral formulations of omecamtiv mecarbil from this Phase I trial that warrant further evaluation in patie…
HealthPasskey™ Reduces Hospitals Readmission Rates for Acute Myocardial … – Virtual-Strategy Magazine
HealthPasskey™ Reduces Hospitals Readmission Rates for Acute Myocardial …Virtual-Strategy MagazineThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin penalizing hospitals with elevated Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), Heart Failure …
Indian sex workers are a shining example of women's empowerment – The Guardian (blog)
Indian sex workers are a shining example of women's empowermentThe Guardian (blog)… research programme that I direct, Pathways of Women's Empowerment, began its search for inspiring examples of empowerment, in 2006, few might have imagined it…
A picture that could break anyone's heart: Tiny Jack fights for life while his father desperately pleads for an organ …
Jack Morris, 15 months, has been on the transplant waiting list since March. His desperate father has urged other parents to consider organ donation.
Fibroscan – Non-Invasive Technique to Diagnose Liver Disorders – Healthcare Global (press release)
Fibroscan – Non-Invasive Technique to Diagnose Liver DisordersHealthcare Global (press release)NEW DELHI, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Device Assesses Liver Fibrosis Non-Invasively – Unlike Invasive, Painful Liver Biopsies In the run-up to World Hep…
Drug Cut Skin Cancers After Transplant – MedPage Today
Drug Cut Skin Cancers After TransplantMedPage TodayNote that in this study, switching from calcineurin inhibitors to sirolimus had an anti-tumoral effect over a 2-year period among kidney-transplant recipients with previous squamous-cell carcinoma. ……
Immunosuppressant Switch Cuts Skin Cancer Post-Transplant – Renal and Urology News
Immunosuppressant Switch Cuts Skin Cancer Post-TransplantRenal and Urology NewsIn kidney-transplant patients with at least one cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma, switching immunosuppressants (from calcineurin inhibitors to sirolimus) is associated with…
Larger Kidneys Increase RCC Death Risk – Renal and Urology News
Larger Kidneys Increase RCC Death RiskRenal and Urology NewsIn a study of 191 patients with pT1 RCC who underwent radical nephrectomy, investigators at Mayo Clinic reported that each 1-cm increment in kidney size (i.e., largest measured dimension) was …
Why people don't perform under stress – Times of India
PsychCentral.comWhy people don't perform under stressTimes of IndiaIn order to test the different stress hormones, the cognition psychologists used three substances – a placebo, the stress hormone hydrocortisone and yohimbine, which ensures that th…