'One Person can Make a Difference' Top Ten List for 2011allvoicesMillet received a stem cell transplant in the United States after being diagnosed with an advanced stage of bone cancer. When Millet returned to his home in Haiti, he was determin…
Transplant Patients Want a Role in Liver Quality Decisions – Doctors Lounge
MD NewsTransplant Patients Want a Role in Liver Quality DecisionsDoctors LoungePatients waiting for liver transplantation want to be involved in decisions about organ quality, and the level of risk they are prepared to tolerate is influenced by the pre…
Legislators approve organ donor IC cards – China Post
News TonightLegislators approve organ donor IC cardsChina PostShih, however, added that the amended act also gives the donor full rights to withdraw the organ donation. If a patient on his deathbed decided not to donate at the last minute, doctors must…
Safety alert on ursodeoxycholic acid containing drugs – 7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Safety alert on ursodeoxycholic acid containing drugs7thSpace Interactive (press release)It was found that the patients' risk was 2.1-fold greater for death and liver transplantation in the treatment group of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) ta…
Hope for Treating Chronic Kidney Disease Via Regeneration of Specialized Cells – MedIndia
MedIndiaHope for Treating Chronic Kidney Disease Via Regeneration of Specialized CellsMedIndiaPodocytes are specialized type of epithelial cells in the kidney, which get damaged in more than 90 percent of all chronic kidney disease cases. Now researche…
BG Medicine, Inc. to Host Interactive Webcast on Role of Galectin-3 in Heart … – MarketWatch (press release)
BG Medicine, Inc. to Host Interactive Webcast on Role of Galectin-3 in Heart …MarketWatch (press release)The interactive webcast will feature Pieter Muntendam, MD, President and CEO of BG Medicine, who will provide an overview of the role of galectin…
Major shareholder urges Thoratec to consider sale – BusinessWeek
Major shareholder urges Thoratec to consider saleBusinessWeekIt praised Thoratec's HeartMate pumps, which are intended for patients who are waiting for a heart transplant or for those who are too sick to have heart transplant surgery. But Oracle sa…
AirStrip Technologies Announces Home Health Collaboration With Qualcomm Life – PR Newswire (press release)
AirStrip Technologies Announces Home Health Collaboration With Qualcomm LifePR Newswire (press release)The initial focus of AirStrip's initiative will be on Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patients, resulting in better health outcomes by connecting …
Howlin' Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin dies – WBEZ
ThirdAgeHowlin' Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin diesWBEZBlues lovers are mourning the death of Howlin' Wolf lead guitarist Hubert Sumlin, who died on Sunday in New Jersey from heart failure. He was 80 years old. Sumlin was born in Greenwood Missis…
NSW Government Calls for Organ Donation Overhaul – French Tribune
NSW Government Calls for Organ Donation OverhaulFrench TribuneThere seems to be no doubt left that the organ donation is a contentious issue and that is why so much is being talked about the newly proposed NSW government draft on the same. It is being …