A Wichita hospital has announced that it is suspending its kidney transplant program and ordering an independent review after learning of the deaths of four patients who received kidney transplants in the last year.
No to Human Organ Farms! – National Right to Life News
LifeNews.comNo to Human Organ Farms!National Right to Life NewsA new protocol is proposed whereby after a donor family agrees to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments, premortem nephrectomy is performed in advance of end-of-life management. Since ne…
Bristol-Myers Squibb Presents New 4-Year Data from the Long-Term Extensions of … – EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Bristol-Myers Squibb Presents New 4-Year Data from the Long-Term Extensions of …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)SCD kidneys were defined as organs from a deceased donor with anticipated cold ischemia time (CIT) of <24 hours and not meetin…
Senate Passes Legislation To Encourage Organ Donation – NewsLI
Senate Passes Legislation To Encourage Organ DonationNewsLI“This bill will make the process of registering for organ donation online more convenient by allowing donors to receive electronic confirmation of their registration and amend or revoke regis…
Former Orioles executive, daughter come through transplant surgery – Baltimore Sun (blog)
Former Orioles executive, daughter come through transplant surgeryBaltimore Sun (blog)By Meredith Cohn Lindsey Duquette and her father, former Orioles executive Jim Duquette, have come through their transplant surgeries and are recovering at Johns Hopk…
Algorithm predicts patient's risk of death from heart failure – Toronto Star
Algorithm predicts patient's risk of death from heart failureToronto StarBy Megan Ogilvie Health Reporter Heart failure is one of the most common reasons people are admitted to hospital. But it's not always easy for physicians to tell which pat…
Embargoed news from Annals of Internal Medicine – EurekAlert (press release)
Embargoed news from Annals of Internal MedicineEurekAlert (press release)Algorithm May Predict Who is Likely to Die from Heart Failure in the Emergency Room Each year, more than one million people visit the emergency room due to heart failure. Physicia…
Mindful Cafe: Make wishes known about organ donation – Aurora Beacon News
Mindful Cafe: Make wishes known about organ donationAurora Beacon NewsData indicates there are about 114,00 people waiting in the US for some form of organ donation, and 18 people die every day waiting for a transplant. It takes a lot of kindness and g…
Prediction of Heart Failure Mortality in Emergent Care – Annals of Internal Medicine
Prediction of Heart Failure Mortality in Emergent CareAnnals of Internal MedicineBackground: Heart failure contributes to millions of emergency department (ED) visits, but hospitalization-versus-discharge decisions are often not accompanied by prognost…
Angelle Blanchard Kidney Transplant Benefit
Angelle Blanchard Kidney Transplant Committee will be hosting a benefit at Cowboy's on Ambassador Caffery! The music starts at 10am and last until 6pm, on Sunday, June 10, 2012. This fundraiser is to help Angelle, who is waiting to undergo a kidney…