French TribuneDoubts cast over effectiveness of bone marrow treatment for heart failureNewstrack IndiaWashington, Mar 25 (ANI): Using patient's bone marrow cells for treating chronic ischemic heart failure did not result in improvement on most meas…
Diabetes is major risk factor for chronic kidney disease: study – Channel News Asia
Diabetes is major risk factor for chronic kidney disease: studyChannel News AsiaBy Sara Grosse | Posted: 25 March 2012 1743 hrs SINGAPORE: A study conducted in Singapore shows that people with diabetes are much more likely to have chronic kidney diseas…
Aide says Cheney had heart transplant – WRGB
Aide says Cheney had heart transplantWRGBWASHINGTON (AP) — An aide says a nearly two-year wait has ended in successful heart transplant surgery for former Vice President Dick Cheney, who is recovering at a Virginia hospital. While the donor is unknown…
Organ donor's family tell of heartache – St Helens Today
St Helens TodayOrgan donor's family tell of heartacheSt Helens TodayTHE family of an organ donor from St Helens who died in 2010 have told of their heartache that kidneys which she donated were later found to be cancerous. Last week NHS bosses exte…
Organ donation 'was what Jaime would have wanted' – Chronicle-Telegram
Organ donation 'was what Jaime would have wanted'Chronicle-TelegramDoctors determined brain death. No man ever wants to say goodbye to his daughter, but Charles Fortney said he did so knowing that even in death his daughter helped so many. Soon…
While we're on the topic of transplants – Democratic Underground
While we're on the topic of transplantsDemocratic UndergroundThey now rely on a "brain-death" definition for actual death, instead of the cardiac-pulmonary definition, and now they can keep "cadavers" alive for months before har…
Dick Cheney And The Very Expensive Disease – Forbes
CBS NewsDick Cheney And The Very Expensive DiseaseForbesFormer Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from a heart transplant to treat end-stage heart failure — an often misunderstood disease that is one of the most costly health problems in Americ…
Rituximab May Be Best Choice After Anti-TNF Fail in RA – Medscape
Rituximab May Be Best Choice After Anti-TNF Fail in RAMedscapeMarch 24, 2012 — Patients whose rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is inadequately controlled with a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor might be well advised to switch to rituximab (RTX), rather…
Family Of 15-Year-Old Organ Donor Meets Recipient – News On 6
Family Of 15-Year-Old Organ Donor Meets RecipientNews On 6Jim Haney, holding a photo of organ donor Alisha Girdner, who died when she was 15. Haney received Girdner's heart. Alisha Girdner's family meets the 64-year-old man who received her hea…
For Cheney, 71, New Heart Ends 20-Month Wait – New York Times
New York TimesFor Cheney, 71, New Heart Ends 20-Month WaitNew York TimesAs recently as 2006, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation said that while patients recommended for a heart transplant should generally be 70 or under, “ca…