Newest Data Shows Jewish Hospital Transplant Center Has Best in Region Results …HealthCanal.comLouisville, Ky.—New public data released by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), the national database of transplantation statistics,…
Vital Transplant Organs Scarce for Seniors – Medical News Today
Vital Transplant Organs Scarce for SeniorsMedical News TodaySegev and his colleagues decided to design a statistical model for predicting how well older adults would be expected to do following kidney transplantation. They accounted for age, smoking, d…
Ten-year-old cancer boy given new hope after global search finds one-in-a … – Daily Mail
Daily MailTen-year-old cancer boy given new hope after global search finds one-in-a …Daily MailFollowing chemotherapy doctors gave him the all clear last January but months later the disease returned and he was told that he urgently needed a stem cel…
Science Serves Life: Young Man Given Second Chance at Life after Adult Stem … – Catholic Online
Science Serves Life: Young Man Given Second Chance at Life after Adult Stem …Catholic OnlineUsing Lyles' own adult stem cell reduces the risk of organ transplant rejection from his body. After a 12 hour operation last November, Lyles can now spea…
A genetic accelerator hits the gas on autoimmune diseases – EurekAlert (press release)
A genetic accelerator hits the gas on autoimmune diseasesEurekAlert (press release)The therapies currently used are based on cortisone, anti-malarial drugs and immunosuppressants (azathioprine, mycophenolate, cyclophosphamide) and biologic drugs (ritux…
SurModics Cut to Neutral – Zacks.com
SurModics Cut to NeutralZacks.comWe are also concerned about factors such as partner Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) decision to stop manufacturing Cypher and Cypher Select Plus sirolimus-eluting coronary stents. SurModics received royalties on sales…
Alliance Pharma shares fall sharply, in part due to macro concerns – ShareCast
Alliance Pharma shares fall sharply, in part due to macro concernsShareCastDuring the year, however, sales of its gastro-resistant tablets Deltacortril, which include the active ingredient prednisolone, “continued to be affected by increased competit…
Brave Coen Ashton helps lift organ donor rate – Courier Mail
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…