MD NewsICD therapy significantly reduces mortality in patients with moderate heart …News-Medical.netSt. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced results of the SCD-HeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Tri…
Review finds 74% decline in annual ICU admissions for asthma – News-Medical.net
Review finds 74% decline in annual ICU admissions for asthmaNews-Medical.net"The main reason for the decline in cases is that more of our patients are taking their controller medications such as inhaled corticosteroids, which reduce the amount of …
Games boost local transplant register
HUNDREDS of transplant athletes will travel to Sheffield next summer for the annual British Transplant Games, which are set to come to the city for the second time in five years.
Disputes erupt over Memphis-area transplant changes
A pending change in the way organs are distributed for transplants has touched off an increasingly bitter dispute between the Memphis area's leading transplant center and the local nonprofit group that procures kidneys, livers and pancreases from d…
SYMBICORT® (budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate) Long-Term Study Shows … – EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
SYMBICORT® (budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate) Long-Term Study Shows …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)Currently available data are inadequate to determine whether concurrent use of inhaled corticosteroids or other long-term asthma co…
New Technology Helps Woman Get New Heart
A Portsmouth woman recently became the first person in New England to receive a new type of experimental heart transplant.
Man Sues UCSD, Says He Was Given Cancerous Kidney
A Fallbrook man spoke to 10News about a kidney transplant that turned into a nightmare.
Victoria could soon see first transplant center
Two physicians want to do their part in continuing the Crossroads' growth – but in the name of medicine.
Turning morality on its head – Haaretz
Turning morality on its headHaaretzSome Orthodox Jews do not accept that brain death constitutes death. They believe that a brain-dead body is a living human being so long as its heart is still beating, even if that's with the help of a ventilator….
New Antibody Promising for Relapsed Lymphoma – Clinical Oncology News
Clinical Oncology NewsNew Antibody Promising for Relapsed LymphomaClinical Oncology NewsSan Diego—In the first head-to-head comparison, obinutuzumab (GA101, Genentech) appeared to be more active than rituximab in relapsed CD20-positive indolent B-cel…