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Retrieving Organs From Brain-Dead Donors Is Logistically Challenging
Feb 28, 2014Retrieving organs from brain-dead donors is logistically challenging and time consuming in hospitals. Multiple surgical teams often fly to a donor's hospital but frequently face delays in retrieving organs due to crowded operating-room ...
Tags: Moving Organ Donors, stand-alone facility, lowers costs
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The FDA Will Address OTC Acetaminophen Products in Another Regulatory Action
Jan 17, 2014WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends health professionals discontinue prescribing combination drug products containing acetaminophen. The FDA recommends healthcare professionals discontinue ...
Tags: FDA, OTC, acetaminophen, acetaminophen-containing product
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Hepatitis C Treatment Isn't Pretty
Jan 16, 2014Hepatitis C treatment isn't pretty, but the dark days of weekly injections, rough side effects and no guarantee of full recovery from the liver-damaging disease may soon be over, researchers report. Two studies, both published in the Jan. ...
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White Children Have Higher Liver Transplant Survival Rates Than Black
Dec 26, 2013White children in the United States have higher liver transplant survival rates than blacks and other minority children, a new study finds. Researchers looked at 208 patients, aged 22 and younger, who received a liver transplant at ...
Tags: liver transplant, race, children health
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The US Food and Drug Administration Has Granted Orphan Drug Designation
Dec 4, 2013The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to Conatus Pharmaceuticals' drug candidate emricasan for the treatment of liver transplant patients with reestablished fibrosis to delay the progression to ...
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Waste-Water Treatment by-Products Are Frequently Used as Fertilizer.
Nov 19, 2013Waste-water treatment by-products, also known as sewage sludge, are frequently used as fertilizer. And that means whatever this stew of sewage leftovers contains, including substances hazardous to human and animal health, could potentially ...
Tags: antibiotic, resistant, bacteria, fertilizer, super bug
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The FDA Has Granted Orphan Drug Designation for LUM001 Clinical Program
Sep 29, 2013The US Food & Drug Administration (cof Orphan Product Development has granted orphan drug designation for Lumena Pharmaceuticals' LUM001 clinical program. Lumena obtained orphan designation for LUM001 in four rare cholestatic liver ...
Tags: Orphan Drug, Rare Liver Diseases
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Octapharma Has Announced The Availability of Octaplas
Sep 3, 2013Octapharma USA, part of Swiss human protein products maker Octapharma Group, has announced the availability of Octaplas, a solvent/detergent treated pooled human plasma, in the country. Designed to reduce the risk of pathogen transmission ...
Tags: protein products, Octapharma
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New Patient Gown Is Being Rolled out on Several Inpatient Floors at Henry Ford Hospital
Apr 11, 2013The drafty backside is finally gone, replaced with comfort, warmth and dignity in a newly designed hospital gown that blends style for the patient with clinical function for the health care team. The new patient gown – resembling a ...
Tags: Patient Gown, Apparel
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The US FDA Has Approved Novartis Zortress as The First Drug to Prevent Organ Rejection
Feb 19, 2013The USFDA has approved Novartis Zortress as the first drug to prevent organ rejection in adult patients receiving liver transplantation in the US. The approval was based on positive data from liver transplant study that compared Zortress ...
Tags: medication, FDA, Zortress
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Foreign Trade Law of The People's Republic of China
Dec 11, 2012(i)Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity ...
Tags: Tianjin municipality, survey, economy, investment
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Foreign Trade Law of The People's Republic of China
Dec 10, 2012(i)Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity ...
Tags: jiangsu province, survey, economy, investment
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FDA Has Approved an Update to The Labeling for Bristol-Myers Squibb's Baraclude
Oct 16, 2012US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an update to the labeling for Bristol-Myers Squibb's Baraclude to include data on African Americans and liver transplant recipients with chronic hepatitis B infection. The present ...
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TGA of Australia Has Approved Ikaria Lucassin
Apr 25, 2012The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia has approved Ikaria Lucassin (terlipressin) for the treatment of Hepatorenal Syndrome Type 1 (HRS 1) in patients who are actively being considered for a liver transplant. The ...
