Infants and children who undergo heart transplantation are experiencing good outcomes after surgery and may expect to live beyond 15 years post-surgery with reasonable cardiac function and quality of life, according to a study released ...
Tags: Loma Linda, heart transplant, Copeland, post-surgery
A so-called implantable insulin delivery device could one day free people with type 1 diabetes from the need for multiple daily injections, scientists say. "Diabetes is a difficult-to-treat condition, and yet keeping in very good balance ...
More than half of babies and children who receive heart transplants are surviving many years, say the authors of a new study. Pediatric heart transplant patients are living 15 years and longer with good heart function, the scientists ...
Tags: kids, Heart Transplant, Kidney failure, health
Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced positive results from a Phase 2a clinical trial of OMS824, the company's phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10) inhibitor, in which the drug was well tolerated and demonstrated comparable systemic ...
An asthma improvement initiative conducted by primary care physicians dramatically improved asthma outcomes for high-risk teens, U.S. researchers say. Senior author Dr. Maria Britto, director of the Center for Innovation in Chronic ...
By Russ Daly, DVM, DACVPM Recently, livestock producers and veterinarians have been hearing about changes coming in the way antibiotics are used in food animals. In mid-December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final ...
BioClinica, a provider of clinical trial management services, announced that Mundipharma Research, a pharmaceutical research and development company, has selected BioClinica's OnPoint CTMS (clinical trial management system). With this ...
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THURSDAY Jan. 23, 2014, 2014 -- Race and gender affect whether heart attack patients still take recommended medications a year later, a new study finds. And black and Hispanic women are least likely to continue using the drugs meant to ...
Tags: ACE, ARBs, heart attack, patient
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Sisters Have Lung Transplants at the Same Time Two sisters who needed lung transplants and insisted that the other should be first ...
Tags: NHTSA, Myers-Santana, Methodist Hospital, Public Citizen
NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- New York researchers have identified a molecular mechanism by which cocaine alters the brain's reward circuits and causes addiction. Dr. Eric J. Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn ...
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A UCLA team has developed an easy-to-use "risk calculator" that helps predict heart failure patients' chances of survival for up to five years and assists doctors in determining whether more or less aggressive treatment is appropriate. ...
There is much value in training hospital and nursing home staff in the basics of palliative care to make the last days of a dying patient's life as comfortable and dignified as possible. So says F. Amos Bailey of the Birmingham Veterans ...
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and FSMB Foundation are collaborating with several partners to provide state medical boards with resources to educate health care professionals on the safe and responsible prescribing of ...
Up to 30 percent of heart attack patients suffer a new heart attack because cardiologists are unable to control inflammation inside heart arteries — the process that leads to clots rupturing and causing myocardial infarction or ...
Tags: New Technology, Heart Attacks, HDL, LDL
Multivac Marking & Inspection will exhibit new label dispensers that feature high labeling precision and labeling speed at Interpack to be held from 8 to 14 May 2014 in Dusseldorf, Germany. The label dispensers are compatible with new ...
Tags: Label Dispensers, Packaging