LAYTON — Chris Yamamoto has been waiting for a new kidney for more than a year. He hopes the call for one will come through any day. The 43-year-old Clinton father of five has been battling diabetes since he was 20. Despite doing everything right —…
Heart failure implant operation trialled in UK – BBC News
BBC NewsHeart failure implant operation trialled in UKBBC NewsA pioneering operation in Leicester to fit a nerve-stimulating implant in a patient with heart failure is due to finish around midday. Similar to a pacemaker, it is fitted to the vagus nerve…
Government needs to prevent forced organ donations – Times of India
Government needs to prevent forced organ donationsTimes of IndiaOrgan transplants are a sticky domain, where the government and doctors have to deal with difficult ethical issues that have no black-and-white solutions or answers. The government is boun…
Organ Transplant Figures Hit Record High
A record number of organ transplants were carried out last year, health officials have revealed.
Patent Issued for Monitoring Hemodynamic Status Based on Intracardiac Or … – Equities.com
Patent Issued for Monitoring Hemodynamic Status Based on Intracardiac Or …Equities.comReporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) refers to a clinical syndrome…
No single strategy best for stage I follicular lymphoma – Curetoday.com (press release)
No single strategy best for stage I follicular lymphomaCuretoday.com (press release)In the rigorously staged group, patients treated with either rituximab/chemotherapy or systemic chemo plus radiation had significantly better progression-free survival …
Heart patients ready for India – Fiji Times
Fiji Broadcasting CorporationHeart patients ready for IndiaFiji TimesTWELVE-year-old Sera Liku barely speaks a word but her smile speaks volumes of her happiness that she will have a new lease of life after returning from India. After she found out she…
Alert staff douse fire at SoBo hospital ICU – Times of India
Alert staff douse fire at SoBo hospital ICUTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More … MUMBAI: A minor fire broke out at the Cumballa Hill Hospital and Heart Institute's intensive care unit on Wednesday evening, …
'Outstation patients' papers incomplete' – Times of India
'Outstation patients' papers incomplete'Times of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More … Therefore, in accordance with the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, if an uncle wants to donate a kidney to his niece…
Smart move to drive cadaver donations – Times of India
Smart move to drive cadaver donationsTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More … MUMBAI: In a ground-breaking move that hopes to lift the state's dismal cadaver donation count-which stands at less than 300 organs…