Double-Lung Transplant, Breast Implants Save Life of Man Who Battled Vaping-Linked Illness
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 -- “Davey” Bauer hovered on the precipice of death, his lungs damaged by vaping and congested by antibiotic-resistant pneumonia.Doctors saved his life with a jury-rigged artificial lung, a prompt double-lung... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - November 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
TransMedics Reports Inducement Grants Under NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)
ANDOVER, Mass., Nov. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedics Group, Inc. ("TransMedics") (Nasdaq: TMDX), a medical technology company that is transforming organ transplant therapy for patients with end-stage lung, heart, and liver failure, today announced that on November 1, 2023, TransMedics... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - November 3, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
FDA Approval Demonstrates the Role of Real-World Evidence in Regulatory Decision-Making on Drug Effectiveness
FDA recently approved Prograf (tacrolimus) in combination with other immunosuppressant drugs for the new indication of preventing organ rejection in adult and pediatric patients receiving lung transplantation. (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - November 2, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
AI boosts radiologist perception training
A team in Europe has launched a novel web application to help radiology trainees gain skills in detecting lung nodules on chest x-rays,. They provided a step-by-step description of how to use it in an article published October 24 in the British Journal of Radiology. Significantly, the app leverages deep learning-based image segmentation in combination with computer-simulated lung nodules to automatically generate cases, lead author Jens Borgbjerg, MD, PhD, of Akershus University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, told AuntMinnie.com.“For the novice, beginning interpretation of cross-sectional imaging can be a daunting task,” he...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 31, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Advanced Visualization Radiology Education Digital X-Ray Thoracic Imaging Source Type: news
Interstitial Lung Disease Highlights From CHEST 2023 Interstitial Lung Disease Highlights From CHEST 2023
New insights into antifibrotics in IPF, access to care, and use of artificial intelligence are among the highlights in interstitial lung disease from CHEST 2023 discussed by Dr Fernando J. Martinez.Medscape (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: None ReCAP Source Type: news
She Sued Tennessee for Denying Her an Abortion. Now She ’ s Running for Office.
Allie Phillips never wanted to be a politician, but she had always wanted to be a mom of two. Whenever Phillips asked her 5-year-old daughter, Adalie, what she wanted to be when she grew up, Adalie would say, “A big sister.” So when Phillips found out she was pregnant again in Nov. 2022, Adalie was thrilled. “Her eyes got big and her jaw just dropped open,” Phillips recalled. “Every night after that, she sang Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star to my belly. She’d kiss my belly every night before bed.” Phillips and her husband planned to name the new baby Miley Rose.
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Source: TIME: Health - October 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlotte Alter Tags: Uncategorized feature uspoliticspolicy Source Type: news
Opportunistic Infections Put a Damper on Belatacept After Lung Transplant
(MedPage Today) -- HONOLULU -- Lung transplant clinicians had a rocky start using belatacept (Nulojix) for immunosuppression at one large-volume center, though they maintained that the agent could still be used to preserve renal function without... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - October 12, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Model Developed for Prioritizing Patients Waiting for Lung Transplant
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 -- A new model has been developed for prioritizing patients waiting for a lung transplant, according to a study published online Sept. 29 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Jarrod E. Dalton,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - October 11, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
‘ Hospital at Home ’ Could Be the Future of Health Care. Not Everyone Thinks It ’ s a Good Idea
In July 2022, Rudie Watzig collapsed. The diagnosis was as serious as it was unexpected—cirrhosis of the liver—and it landed him in the intensive care unit for what he considered a period of sheer torture. “I hated it. I hated being in the hospital,” says Watzig, 44, of Portland, Oregon. “Not seeing my kids … not having my wife there … not having my nice Purple mattress to sleep on.”
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So imagine his chagrin when he was again rushed to the emergency room a few months later, this time for breathing problems due to fluid buildup ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsay Lyon Tags: Uncategorized Health Care Source Type: news
Researchers explore concept of locally run LLMs
In this study, the Vicuna model was used as is, with no additional training or adjustments, they added.The group tested Vicuna using two publicly available and de-identified data sets, one comprised of 3,269 chest x-ray reports (MIMIC-CXR, developed by a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and the other an NIH data set consisting of 25,596 reports.Using two prompts for two tasks, the researchers asked Vicuna to identify and label the presence or absence of 13 specific findings on the reports, including cardiomegaly, edema, fracture, lung lesion, and pneumonia, for instance. The researchers then compared the...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 10, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news
How lung cell transplant can improve breathing
Cells taken from a patient's own lungs could be used to treat - or even cure - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd), that affects about 1.4million people in the UK. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
ERS Roundup: Cell Transplant Boosts Lung Function in COPD Patients
(MedPage Today) -- MILAN -- Research presented at this year's annual European Respiratory Society congress included early successes in transplanting a patient's own lung cells to ease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), idrevloride... (Source: MedPage Today Allergy)
Source: MedPage Today Allergy - September 16, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Legionnaires Disease in Lung Transplant Recipients Likely From Donor
(MedPage Today) -- Aspirated freshwater in the lungs of an organ donor who died by drowning in a river was the likely source of Legionnaires disease in two patients who received lung transplants at a Philadelphia hospital last year.
While one... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - September 15, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Suspected Legionella Transmission from a Single Donor to Two Lung Transplant Recipients - Pennsylvania, May 2022
This report describes two cases of Legionnaires' disease reported in patients who each received a lung transplant from the same donor. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - September 14, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: Diseases & Conditions Legionnaires' Disease (Legionellosis) MMWR Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Tacrolimus After Lung Transplant Cuts Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction
(MedPage Today) -- MILAN -- Once-a-day tacrolimus significantly reduced chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) in lung transplant patients compared with the standard immunosuppressant, according to the ScanCLAD trial.
Among patients who underwent... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 11, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
