Liver Transplant

Father captures powerful photos of his four-year-old daughter proudly showing off her 'battle scars' after ...

Edit The Daily Mail 21 Nov 2016

Indi Warner was born with Biliary Atresia and had to undergo a liver transplant at just seven months old. Now four, the plucky Sydney youngster wears her battle scars with pride ... ....

ELPA Calls on Patients with Primary Liver Cancer (HCC) to Share their Experiences in First Global Survey (Sirtex Medical Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Nov 2016

Sirtex Medical Limited) ELPA Calls on Patients with Primary Liver Cancer (HCC) to Share their Experiences in First Global Survey. Results will provide doctors and cancer researchers with insights to improve liver cancer treatment now, and in the future ... "We know that each patient's personal fight against liver cancer is their first priority ... ELPA's aim is to promote the interests of people with liver disease and in particular....

Uniform national practices needed in hepatitis C prevention (Government of Finland)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Nov 2016

In the long term all patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) would receive treatment regardless of the degree of liver damage, according to Finland's new strategy on hepatitis C which was published on 21 November 2016 ... The new expensive antiviral drugs are used if the current therapy is not effective and liver damage is progressing or if there is contraindication for interferon therapy and the liver damage is severe....

Uniform national practices needed in hepatitis C prevention (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of the Republic of Finland)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Nov 2016

In the long term all patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) would receive treatment regardless of the degree of liver damage, according to Finland's new strategy on hepatitis C which was published on 21 November 2016 ... The new expensive antiviral drugs are used if the current therapy is not effective and liver damage is progressing or if there is contraindication for interferon therapy and the liver damage is severe....

Lawyers take Chinese organ-harvesting claims to Australia

Edit The Jakarta Post 21 Nov 2016

David Kilgour, a former prosecutor and Canadian secretary of state for the Asia-Pacific, and David Matas, a human rights lawyer, have published evidence they say shows that China performs an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 transplants a year, with organs primarily taken from Falun Gong practitioners, Muslim Uighurs, Tibetan Buddhists and Christians....

Actinium Pharmaceuticals to Present at LD Micro Main Event Investor Conference

Edit Stockhouse 21 Nov 2016

The Company's lead product candidate Iomab-B is designed to be used, upon approval, in preparing patients for hematopoietic stem cell transplant, commonly referred to as bone marrow transplant. A bone marrow transplant is often the only potential cure for patients with blood-borne cancers but preparation for a transplant requires chemotherapy and or total body irradiation that result in significant toxicities....

My kidneys have failed, and I know my kids face the same fate

Edit BBC News 21 Nov 2016

She had her first kidney removed in 2011 and was placed on the transplant list in 2012 ... This summer there were 141 people in West Yorkshire and 5,066 in the UK waiting for a kidney-only transplant ... The average waiting time for a kidney-only transplant is 944 days ... "She said she had felt just the same during her own kidney transplant a few years before ... A few months after the transplant, Mandy is relieved to have come off dialysis....

Improved survival after kidney transplantation: revolutionary assay developed by VitaK (Universiteit Maastricht)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Nov 2016

This so-called Protein Induced by Vitamin K Absence (PIVKA) is a strong risk factor for allograft failure and death of the kidney transplant recipient....

Young scientists experiment with Pathology at RGU (Robert Gordon University)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Nov 2016

(Source. Robert Gordon University) Monday, 21 November, 2016 ... A total of 31 S3 and S4 pupils paid a visit to the university to conduct a number of science experiments in the university's modern labs, which looked at liver cells, bacteria and blood ... Fraserburgh Academy pupil Juliusz Rogowski, 15, said. 'It was really interesting to learn about blood groups, transfusions and looking at liver samples under a microscope ... Anna Lindahl said....

Mother's anguish

Edit BBC News 21 Nov 2016

Mandy Littlewood has polycystic kidney disease and needed an organ transplant. Two of her children also have the condition ... ....

Better management of blood sugar can help to prevent complications

Edit The Times of India 21 Nov 2016

PUNE. The primary goal of diabetes management is to prevent end-organ complications, say experts. "Diabetes may cause many complications, including heart attack, stroke, nerve damage (neuropathy), vision problems or blindness, bladder, kidney and liver problems, and erectile dysfunction ... Make sure that you eat food which will help to keep your heart healthy ... Drink plenty of water....

Citigroup just boosted its share buyback program by up to $1.75 billion

Edit Business Insider 21 Nov 2016

Copyright 2016 ... More from Reuters. ... White House Fight for Syria's Aleppo exposes limits of Russian air power European privacy regulators to scrutinize WhatsApp privacy switch Transplant recipients who resume smoking have shorter survival ... ....

Temple's health system getting healthier under Larry Kaiser

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 21 Nov 2016

Larry Kaiser remembers the charge he got when he took over as chief of Temple University's struggling health system in 2011 ... DAVID SWANSON / Staff Photographer ... "Under Dr ... Kaiser, a thoracic surgeon, attributes the improvement in large part to his strategy to increase the number of acute-care patients, who require high-end procedures such as transplants, cardiac work, and neurosurgery ... ....

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