Madawaska girl's brand new heart 'beating strong'Bangor Daily NewsMADAWASKA, Maine — Alyssa Thibodeau, the 15-year-old from Madawaska in need of a new heart, has undergone successful transplant surgery in Boston and there is every indicat…
No Advantage for Warfarin in Heart Failure: WARCEF Published – Medscape
World News ResourceNo Advantage for Warfarin in Heart Failure: WARCEF PublishedMedscapeMay 4, 2012 — Results of a large randomized trial show that for patients with heart failure in sinus rhythm, there was no overall difference in the risk for a comp…
So you're an organ donor on Facebook – but at what cost? | Arwa Madhawi
It's difficult to quantify how much your data, freely shared on Facebook, can be worth to brands who anticipate every move One healthy intestine courtesy of a US transplant centre : $1,206,800. Having the same centre insert a new heart: $997,700. O…
Kidney Transplant Recipient Shares Personal Story
There’s an old saying that goes, ‘Just in the nick of time.’ That might be a good way of describing what happened to William Davis. In 2003, Davis was a healthy, outgoing 33-year-old male, so when he started having headaches, he thought it was ju…
Linkage Biosciences Establishes New Manufacturing Facility – Healthcare Global (press release)
Linkage Biosciences Establishes New Manufacturing FacilityHealthcare Global (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – May 3, 2012) – Linkage Biosciences, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company and leader in molecular HLA typing and associated prod…
Give and you shall receive – new rules give priority to organ donors – Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldGive and you shall receive – new rules give priority to organ donorsSydney Morning HeraldThis involved reaching agreement with Israel's influential but highly sceptical religious leaders on the definition of "brain death&q…
New analysis may help identify breast cancer patients who will benefit from … – News-Medical.net
New analysis may help identify breast cancer patients who will benefit from …News-Medical.netA new analysis may help doctors identify breast cancer patients who will benefit from treatment with the immune suppressant drug everolimus, say French resea…
'Natural does not equal safe' – Independent Online
Independent Online'Natural does not equal safe'Independent OnlineDr Ulbricht also warned that garlic supplements, which are taken to reduce blood pressure, can interfere with anti-clotting medications and the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporine…
100th Patient Gets a New Heart at Seattle Children's Hospital
5-month-old received this milestone transplant at Children's.
Corneal transplantation – Laser Focus world
Corneal transplantationLaser Focus worldCorneal immunological privilege allows corneal transplantations to remain rejection free, without the use of prophylaxis, in about 80% of low-risk transplantations such as those for keratoconus.54 Corneal transpl…