Brave Coen Ashton helps lift organ donor rateCourier MailThe determined 14-year-old, who last year won a Pride of Australia medal for his trailblazing jet-ski ride down the Murray River to raise awareness about organ donation, has helped boost Australi…
Care of heart patients to improve as part of 1000 Lives Plus – WalesOnline
Care of heart patients to improve as part of 1000 Lives PlusWalesOnlineThe focus of the work includes improved monitoring of patients who have an irregular heartbeat or chronic heart failure and who take blood thinning medication. Diagnosing people wit…
Organ donor numbers on rise – The Australian
French TribuneOrgan donor numbers on riseThe AustralianFigures released yesterday by the Australia and New Zealand Organ Donation Registry reveal that Australians continue to wait longer for an organ transplant than people in 23 other countries, includ…
Rapid Diagnosis of Severe Kidney Damage – New Biomarkers Tested – HealthCanal.com
Rapid Diagnosis of Severe Kidney Damage – New Biomarkers TestedHealthCanal.comHow does a doctor determine whether or not an emergency-room patient has acute kidney injury? Using tests currently available in the hospital, this question is often diffic…
Winfield teen killed in crash 'lives on' through organ donation – Chicago Daily Herald
Winfield teen killed in crash 'lives on' through organ donationChicago Daily Herald“I don't know why I had this paranoia about organ donation. It was kind of naive,” he said. “It can have such a huge impact on so many people's liv…
New therapy holds promise for treating chronic liver failure – Zee News
Zee NewsNew therapy holds promise for treating chronic liver failureZee NewsNew Delhi: In a first, doctors have used a unique therapy to regenerate liver tissue for patients suffering from chronic liver failure, thus increasing their chances of surviva…
West Orange Carries On Dr. King's Legacy – Patch.com
West Orange Carries On Dr. King's LegacyPatch.comWilson became a liver transplant surgeon, and is one of the few African-American liver transplant surgeons in the US He is a founder of the Division of Liver Transplantation at UMDNJ, was part of the…
Organ donation hits record level – ABC Online
Yahoo!7 NewsOrgan donation hits record levelABC OnlineWhile Australia still trails organ donation rates in many other countries, the authority's medical director, Associate Professor Jonathan Gillis, says that will change. "We're still low…
Apollo Hospitals showcases latest cardiac techniques for cardiologists at … – pharmabiz.com
Apollo Hospitals showcases latest cardiac techniques for cardiologists at …pharmabiz.comThe existing option of treatment for such patients is heart transplantation, which is extremely rare in our country and highly risky. CRT can avoid heart transpla…
Predictors of warm ischemia time and perioperative complications in a … – UroToday
Predictors of warm ischemia time and perioperative complications in a …UroTodayWarm ischemia time (WIT) and complication rates are two important parameters for evaluating the perioperative results of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN). Few dat…