ABC NewsPoised to Donate Organs, 21-Year-Old Emerges From ComaABC NewsSo while the family was given a realistic picture of Schmid's poor chances for survival, Spetzler ordered one more MRI to see if the critical areas of the brain had turned dark, …
Rhett Butler/The Daily Reflector – Greenville Daily Reflector
Greenville Daily ReflectorRhett Butler/The Daily ReflectorGreenville Daily ReflectorDr. Robert Harland, Chief of Transplant Surgery at PCMH, discuss the triple kidney transplant operations as he stands with the recipients and their donors Thursday. By …
Promising treatments for blood cancers presented by JTCancerCenter researchers … – EurekAlert (press release)
Promising treatments for blood cancers presented by JTCancerCenter researchers …EurekAlert (press release)In the current study, 551 patients were randomized to receive either an unrelated donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant or bone marrow tra…
Florida Doctor Believes the "Season of Giving" Should Be All Year Long – Sacramento Bee
Florida Doctor Believes the "Season of Giving" Should Be All Year LongSacramento BeeDr. Barusco, a world renowned hair transplant surgeon, has made his mission to use his expertise to provide hair transplant surgery to people who have scars a…
New Robotic-assisted Technology Transforms Treatment of Kidney Tumors – MD News (press release)
MD News (press release)New Robotic-assisted Technology Transforms Treatment of Kidney TumorsMD News (press release)Approximately four out of five patients with small renal masses have their entire kidney removed, called a nephrectomy. Studies suggest t…
Three given the gift of life for Christmas – WNCT
Three given the gift of life for ChristmasWNCTChief of Transplant Surgery, Dr. Robert Harland says its the culmination of a process that has taken more than a year. Each of the recipients had a willing donor who was not a match, so by swapping donors t…
Refused organ donation concerns – Fraser Coast Chronicle
Refused organ donation concernsFraser Coast ChronicleQUEENSLAND Health will meet with the woman at the centre of claims Hervey Bay Hospital refused to take the organs of a retiree who died in November – despite the fact the man was a registered organ d…
UCI researcher reveals key precursor to chronic kidney disease – OC Metro
UCI researcher reveals key precursor to chronic kidney diseaseOC MetroBy Kylie MalstromPublished: December 22, 2011 07:45 AM UC Irvine researchers have discovered a source of inflammation seen in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), a malady that …
Intensive glycemic control failed to lower heart failure risk in patients with … – Endocrine Today
Intensive glycemic control failed to lower heart failure risk in patients with …Endocrine TodayResults of a large meta-analysis involving more than 37000 patients suggest that intensive glycemic control does not prevent heart failure in patients with…
Boy to meet stem cell donor who saved his life – Times of Malta
Boy to meet stem cell donor who saved his lifeTimes of Malta12-year-old Leon Azzopardi was saved after he received a blood stem cell transplant to treat a rare blood disorder. According to the British press, Susan Ratcliffe and her husband Tony will we…