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Jorden Pediatric Surgery Center
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Authority: 143
Adijat suffered from years of low back pain, limiting movement, mobility, and her quality of life. Experiencing left thigh numbness, she also experienced incontinence and digestive issues. Getting around proved increasingly difficult and pain was a constant reminder of her limitations. Adijat could no longer ...1 day ago -
Tribune-Review investigates kidney treatments; finds that transplant is the best option
HealthPoint PA —
Authority: 439
Reports the Tribune-Review: Amy Waterman figures she saves federal taxpayers about $1 million for every five Medicare patients she persuades to switch from dialysis to a kidney transplant. That’s a conservative estimate for how much money Medicare saves when patients undergo kidney transplant surgeries, an ...5 days ago -
Miracles or technology?, 11,2009
To the Future with Love —
Authority: 108
First, two links for you. Two very interesting articles, that I think will bring hope to many people. British girls heart heals itself after transplant British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart. ...1 week ago -
Outrage: Did the Feds cut a deal with the Japanese Mafia in exchange for livers?
MissInfo.tv —
Authority: 702
Watch CBS News Videos Online I saw this fascinating segment on 60 Minutes last night about a very suspect deal between one of the biggest Yakuza organized-crime lords in Japan, and the FBI. The crime lord, Tadamasa Goto, needed a liver transplant*, so he made a deal with the US Government (according to this ...1 week ago -
Medical Researchers Making Progress On Uterus Transplants
Neatorama —
Authority: 786
Uterus transplants have been thus far unsuccessful because the transplanted uteri do not maintain a blood supply strong enough to keep a fetus alive. But now British medical researchers may have solved that problem. The Guardian reports: They have worked out how to transplant a womb with a good blood supply ...3 weeks ago -
Research programme to develop immunological biomarkers for chronic inflammatory diseases (News-Medical-Net)
NanoTechBIZZ.com —
Authority: 153
Persistent inflammation and the activation of the immune system is the key pathological mechanism affecting many long-term conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease and is the predominant mechanism underlying organ transplant rejection. (get the story…) ...3 weeks ago -
The vexed issue of transplanting donor organs
The Ballad of Billy The Kidney —
Authority: 106
Local media has this week reported that Australian scientists have developed an improvement in the solution in which donor hearts are transported – making a donor heart viable for up to 14 hours, as against the current situation of 5 or so hours. The solution also apparently makes the organ generally more viable ...4 weeks ago -
Healthcare: Organ Transplants & Donor History, a Sad Soldier’s Story
VitalOne Health Insurance Blog —
Authority: 135
A soldier bravely serving his country overseas in Iraq begins to notice he has a hard time breathing. He takes a trip to the medic where they tell him he has an incurable lung condition that will leave him unable to breathe. Pretty grim outlook until they say he will be fast tracked on a lung transplant waiting ...4 weeks ago
