Arthur Baue dies; surgeon known for work on post-traumatic organ failureSTLtoday.comDr. Arthur E. Baue, who died last month, was a surgeon nationally known for his work on post-traumatic multiple organ failure. He was an early researcher in methods to …
Student Blinded After Blood Donation Gets Compensation – Bernama
Student Blinded After Blood Donation Gets CompensationBernamaHANGZHOU, Jan 7 (Bernama) — A college student who went blind in one eye after collapsing following a blood donation received a compensatory payment of 150000 yuan (US$23776) from a blood cen…
Pat's Place: My Treatment Side Effects Keep Changing – The Myeloma Beacon
Pat's Place: My Treatment Side Effects Keep ChangingThe Myeloma BeaconI learned this week that my post-stem cell transplant consolidation therapy is continuing to work. But the side effects are becoming less predictable. My monoclonal protein numbe…
UBTH unveils patient of first stem cell transplant – The Nation Newspaper
UBTH unveils patient of first stem cell transplantThe Nation NewspaperBy Osagie Otabor and Joke Kuyenja, Benin 10 hours 43 minutes ago The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) yesterday unveiled the first sickle cell patient to undergo stem cel…
MN boy undergoes stem cell transplant; now cancer free – KARE
KAREMN boy undergoes stem cell transplant; now cancer freeKARENine-year-old Owen Pilot is now cancer free following a stem cell transplant a couple months ago. "I don't know how many times I've laid in a hospital bed," Owen said. Diag…
Why Don't Some People With Asthma Respond to Medication? – WebMD
Why Don't Some People With Asthma Respond to Medication?WebMDThey also found that people with this so-called non-eosinophilic asthma did not respond well to treatment with oral and inhaled corticosteroids, like prednisone, Aerobid, Azmacort, Floven…
Campaign urges hospitals to promote organ donation – Nurse.com
Campaign urges hospitals to promote organ donationNurse.comEight organizations have joined the Workplace Partnership for Life Campaign, a Health Resources and Services Administration federal program that encourages hospitals and health systems nationwi…
Cary woman promotes organ donation in Rose Parade – WRAL.com
WRAL.comCary woman promotes organ donation in Rose ParadeWRAL.comCary, NC — A Cary woman who was among the country's first infants to receive a donor liver rode a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade this week to help promote organ donation.
Fatigue in Cirrhosis Linked to Psychosocial Factors – Clinical Psychiatry News Digital Network
Fatigue in Cirrhosis Linked to Psychosocial FactorsClinical Psychiatry News Digital NetworkCirrhosis patients have significantly more fatigue than do matched controls from the general population, and this fatigue often persists 1 year after liver trans…
Everyone's Doing Drugs; A Reason to Play Outside – The Atlantic Wire
The Atlantic WireEveryone's Doing Drugs; A Reason to Play OutsideThe Atlantic WirePrevious research thought brain death started around 60. [BBC] The right types of food and exercise. And to round out our Week After New Year's diettip hotline, w…