Combined use of recommended heart failure therapies significantly boosts …Medical Xpress(Medical Xpress) — A UCLA-led study has found that a combination of several key guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure treatment resulted in an improv…
Doctors want organ donor law to allow more life-savers like Cassie McCord – Chelmsford Weekly News
Doctors want organ donor law to allow more life-savers like Cassie McCordChelmsford Weekly NewsThe nature of organ donation means life-saving transplant operations can very often only be carried out because someone else had died. The crucial decisions …
Heart Failure Program Reduces Readmissions Down to 3% – Becker's Hospital Review
Heart Failure Program Reduces Readmissions Down to 3%Becker’s Hospital ReviewA new heart failure program at Mary Lanning Memorial Healthcare in Hastings, Neb., helped dramatically reduce heart failure readmission rates, according to a KHASTV report. Un…
Movie targets organ donor rates – SBS
French TribuneMovie targets organ donor ratesSBSBy Lisa Zilberpriver It is 'Donate Life' week this week, and the government hopes a powerful movie will help change minds in some communities whose cultural barriers have slowed down acceptance of…
Carrboro man to get stem cell transplant – Chapel Hill News
Carrboro man to get stem cell transplantChapel Hill NewsBY ELIZABETH SWARINGEN, Special to The Chapel Hill News CHAPEL HILL – Three infusions of your own stem cells – each infusion over a 21-day hospitalization – can seem daunting. But, when it's y…
NICE recommends earlier use of Roche's RoActemra for rheumatoid arthritis – PMLiVE
USA TODAYNICE recommends earlier use of Roche's RoActemra for rheumatoid arthritisPMLiVE… for people with RA as a third-line treatment option if DMARDs had been ineffective, and if patients had also both demonstrated an inadequate response to one…
Five myths about organ donation in Australia – SBS
USA TODAYFive myths about organ donation in AustraliaSBSPresumed consent legislation can be indicative of many things, including the willingness of a country's citizens to accept brain death and organ donation as a normal part of dying and to accep…
Israeli joins Kentucky surgeons in transplant surgery – Jerusalem Post
Israeli joins Kentucky surgeons in transplant surgeryJerusalem PostSurgeons consider attaching an arm from a deceased donor the most challenging type of hand transplant surgery. The recipient was 56-year-old Ronald Thurman, a farmer from Indiana whose …
Alberta organ donation rates – Calgary Herald (blog)
Alberta organ donation ratesCalgary Herald (blog)Recently, I had the chance to talk to Calgarian Kyshon Jack for a story on organ donation. The 31-year-old married father of three children was diagnosed with kidney failure almost two years ago. Like th…
Organ Transplants: A Brief History – History
HistoryOrgan Transplants: A Brief HistoryHistoryHe found that skin from a different donor usually caused the procedure to fail, observing the immune response that his successors would come to recognize as transplant rejection. European doctors attempte…