Scientists focusing on genetically engineered drugs to tailor treatments based on patients' individual needs and characteristics.
Fighting for a new set of lungs: Eureka woman with cystic fibrosis awaits transplant
Ashley Pearce is nearly 24 years old, a month away from being married and needs a double lung transplant. Pearce, who graduated from Eureka High School in 2006, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 5, according to her stepfather, Linus
Nordic walking safe exercise for heart failure patients – Nursing Times
Nordic walking safe exercise for heart failure patientsNursing TimesThe exercise craze “Nordic” walking enables heart failure patients to safely exercise more intensely than normal, according to a Polish study presented at the Heart Failure Congres…
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MANILA, Philippines — A cheerful heart is a good medicine. – Proverbs 17:22
Entrepreneurs: Texas transplant slings barbecue on Roberts roadside
Gordon May’s Shady Grove BBQ really is in a shady grove.
Brooklyn woman gained a life-saving kidney in 2008, but lost the kind-hearted hubby who gave it
Michael and ShellyAnn King shared their last kiss lying side by side on gurneys at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, waiting to go to separate operating rooms. Doctors would remove a healthy kidney from Michael and transplant it in his ailing …
Mayo Clinic to offer organ transplant consultations at the Mall of America
Heading to the Mall of America? Feel free to put heart transplants — or at least information about them — on your shopping list.
Florida debut for a new hair transplant procedure – Sun-Sentinel
Florida debut for a new hair transplant procedureSun-SentinelA new hair transplant surgery that promises less pain and fewer scars will make its Florida debut next week. Instead of removing hair from the back of the head in an ear-to-ear cut, a robot t…
Florida debut for a new hair transplant procedure
Robotic technology eliminates cut to back of head A new hair transplant surgery that promises less pain and fewer scars will make its Florida debut next week.
11-year-old Topeka girl needs double-lung transplant
Eleven-year-old Madison Taliaferro has had to make some tough decisions in the past few months. Diagnosed at age 2 with cystic fibrosis, she has two types of life-threatening bacteria growing in her body. In March she learned her health was deteriorati…