New UK approval for HumiraPharma TimesFollowing approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Humira is now approved for use in the UK in such patients who have had an inadequate response to conventional therapy, including corticosteroids and 6-me…
Chemotherapy Proves Life-Saving for Some Leukemia Patients Who Fail Induction … – Sacramento Bee
MedPage TodayChemotherapy Proves Life-Saving for Some Leukemia Patients Who Fail Induction …Sacramento BeeThe largest study ever of such pediatric ALL patients identified a subset of young children who achieved 10-year survival rates of 72 percent af…
LA fire captain suffers heart failure while leading fitness class – Enterprise-Record
LA fire captain suffers heart failure while leading fitness classEnterprise-RecordOROVILLE — Flags at state fire stations throughout Butte County have been flying at half-staff since last week, in honor of a Los Angeles County firefighter who died of…
Transplantation bei Kindern: Blutgruppen-Inkompatibilität lässt sich überwinden – Pabst Science Publishers
Transplantation bei Kindern: Blutgruppen-Inkompatibilität lässt sich überwindenPabst Science Publishers… parallel entfernte eine mehrfache Immunabsorption die (für Abstoßungen mitverantwortlichen) Isoagglutinine; und gleichzeitig wurde eine vier…
Biovest seeks Canadian marketing nod for its personalized lymphoma cancer … – pharmabiz.com
Biovest seeks Canadian marketing nod for its personalized lymphoma cancer …pharmabiz.comWhile combination rituximab-chemotherapy regimens available today often induce tumour remissions in the early stages of treatment, these remissions seldom last; m…
Scientists aim to develop new testing methods for drug-induced liver failure – News-Medical.net
Scientists aim to develop new testing methods for drug-induced liver failureNews-Medical.netLiver damage caused by medicinal drugs is one of the most common reasons for liver failure and liver transplants in the Western world. Nevertheless, it is diffi…
The Graedons: Hypervigilance can avert deadly drug interactions – Florida Today
The Graedons: Hypervigilance can avert deadly drug interactionsFlorida TodayThey included azathioprine, cyclosporine and prednisone. His primary-care physician detected high uric-acid levels and prescribed allopurinol. This landed the 52-year-old in th…
ST2 more specific than BNP for heart failure diagnosis – News-Medical.net
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)ST2 more specific than BNP for heart failure diagnosisNews-Medical.netCritical Diagnostics today announced publication in the latest issue of the Journal of Heart Failure results of a study involving 995 patient…
Dr. Allan Unger, who started the MCV dialysis program, dies – Richmond Times Dispatch
Dr. Allan Unger, who started the MCV dialysis program, diesRichmond Times DispatchTwo days later, the brothers were rushed into two operating rooms, where eight doctors, led by kidney transplantation pioneer and MCV surgery chief David M. Hume, perform…
Dr. Allan Unger, who started the MCV dialysis program, dies
Unger, a Petersburg native who helped perform Virginia's first kidney transplant, died in California March 29.