Apt. Owner Apologizes To Family Of Girl With Liver FailureKMGH DenverTheir 10-month-old daughter, Addilyn, has progressive liver failure, needs a transplant and second-hand smoke can create major complications for her. "The doctor said that she ha…
Welsh proposal would allow organ harvesting without consent – Lifesite
Welsh proposal would allow organ harvesting without consentLifesiteIn the UK, the criteria used are neither “brain death” nor cardio-pulmonary cessation, both of which have been condemned by pro-life ethicists. In Britain “brain stem death” is …
Galectin Therapeutics Reports Third Quarter and Nine Months 2011 Financial Results – EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Galectin Therapeutics Reports Third Quarter and Nine Months 2011 Financial ResultsEON: Enhanced Online News (press release)There are currently no treatment options for liver fibrosis except liver transplantation.” “In the third quarter, Galectin Th…
Supplements May Exacerbate Chronic Kidney Disease – Family Practice News Digital Network
Family Practice News Digital NetworkSupplements May Exacerbate Chronic Kidney DiseaseFamily Practice News Digital NetworkPHILADELPHIA – The use of potentially nephrotoxic dietary supplements is common in the general US population and among individual…
ASN: Kidney Risk Higher in Diabetic Women than Men – MedPage Today
MedIndiaASN: Kidney Risk Higher in Diabetic Women than MenMedPage TodayExplain that five-year follow-up in a cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes found that women were more likely than men to have progression of chronic kidney disease. Note that typ…
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals Presents LCP-Tacro™ Phase 3 Data at the American … – Sacramento Bee
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals Presents LCP-Tacro™ Phase 3 Data at the American …Sacramento BeeLCP-Tacro™ enabled a reduction in dose of 20% through 12 months following a switch from Prograf® as measured by median tacrolimus dose (mg/kg/day) (p<0.00…
Pulsed corticosteroid regimen reduces postoperative ocular inflammation – OSN SuperSite
OSN SuperSitePulsed corticosteroid regimen reduces postoperative ocular inflammationOSN SuperSiteEric D. Donnenfeld, MD, OSN Cornea/External Disease Board Member and lead study author, attributed the safety and efficacy of difluprednate to a neuroprote…
Cyclosporine A 1% an alternative to corticosteroids for treating subepithelial … – OSN SuperSite
Cyclosporine A 1% an alternative to corticosteroids for treating subepithelial …OSN SuperSiteA study found that cyclosporine A eye drops were successful in patients who could not be tapered from corticosteroid eye drops. Cyclosporine A 1% eye drops f…
Alcohol-Inflamed Livers Benefit from Early Transplant – MedPage Today
Alcohol-Inflamed Livers Benefit from Early TransplantMedPage TodayNote that many programs restrict the use of liver transplantation alcoholic liver disease to those meeting a requirement of a six-month period of abstinence from alcohol. …and more&nbs…
HBV, HCV Reactivation During Chemotherapy of Concern – Medscape
HBV, HCV Reactivation During Chemotherapy of ConcernMedscapeRecommendations from ASCO are less comprehensive: Only those about to undergo "highly" immunosuppressive regimens (ie, stem cell transplants or treatment with rituximab) and patients…