Test All Perinatally Exposed Infants for HCV: CDC Test All Perinatally Exposed Infants for HCV: CDC
HCV infection, which can lead to liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, liver failure, hepatic cancer, and transplant, will develop in 6%-7% of all perinatally exposed infants and children.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - November 6, 2023 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Kidney Transplant Rates Stubbornly Resist Systems Intervention in Canada
(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- A multicomponent intervention in Canada designed to overcome barriers that prevent kidney transplantation and living donation failed to increase access to either.
Despite a high rate of intervention uptake... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - November 6, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Cryopreservation:'Crackpot Science' but Still Promoted Cryopreservation:'Crackpot Science' but Still Promoted
Bioethicist Art Caplan discusses the lack of evidence behind cryopreservation and feels it should be discouraged.Medscape Business of Medicine (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - November 6, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Commentary Source Type: news
HEALTH NOTES: £100k for hair fit for a star includes the surgery and accommodation at a five-star hotel
The clinic where cricket star Ben Stokes had his hair transplant is offering the world's most expensive version of the op for £100,000. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News 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
What to Know About Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Kids
The human heart is a muscle, but it’s also a kind of complicated balloon—a balloon that fills and empties roughly 60 to 100 times every minute, and several billion times during the course of a lifetime.
Among people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the walls of the heart muscle are abnormally thick. This thickness can interfere with the heart’s normal filling-and-emptying operation. “If you think of a balloon made with super-thick rubber, you have to blow harder to fill it, and it’s the same with a hypertrophic heart,” says Dr. Daphne Hsu, professor of pediatrics and medicine at Ped...
Source: TIME: Health - November 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Fecal Transplants in Kidney Recipients Reduced Resistant Pathogens
(MedPage Today) -- In the single-center PREMIX clinical trial, most renal transplant recipients were negative for multidrug-resistant pathogens shortly after receiving fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), with longer times to recurrent infections... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - November 2, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Second Pig Heart Recipient Dies Second Pig Heart Recipient Dies
Laurence Faucette lived for 6 weeks after the transplant of a genetically modified pig heart and did well until a few days before his death.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - November 1, 2023 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Second Person to Receive Pig Heart Dies Six Weeks After Transplant
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 – The second person to ever receive a transplanted pig heart has died.Lawrence Faucette, 58, got the transplant just six weeks earlier at the University of Maryland Medical Center in an experimental procedure.... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 1, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
World ’s second human recipient of pig heart dies six weeks after operation
Lawrence Faucette, who had terminal heart disease, received a pig heart genetically altered to be compatible with humansThe world ’s second recipient of a pig heart transplant died this week, nearly six weeks after the procedure.Lawrence Faucette, 58, was suffering from terminal heart disease and received a heart transplant from a genetically altered pig on 20 September. He died on 30 October.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Aliya Uteuova Tags: Heart disease Animals Health Maryland Science US news Source Type: news
Infographic: Female Doctors Get Good News on Pay Front Infographic: Female Doctors Get Good News on Pay Front
Female physicians report gains in salaries and incentive bonuses, helping to close a gender pay gap with male colleagues. Still, 52% of female doctors felt underpaid.Medscape (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - November 1, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Article Source Type: news
Second pig heart transplant patient dies six weeks after rare surgery
Lawrence Faucette, 58, was the second person in the world to undergo a pig heart transplant. He died Monday after his body showed signs of rejection, doctors said. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Timothy Bella Source Type: news
Maryland Man Who Received Pig Heart Transplant Dies, Hospital Says
Lawrence Faucette, 58, died nearly six weeks after receiving only the second-ever heart transplant from a pig. (Source: Science - The Huffington Post)
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 1, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
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A 57-year-old Maryland man who had received a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery has died, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Second Person to Receive Pig Heart Dies Six Weeks After Transplant
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023– The second person to ever receive a transplanted pig heart has died.
Lawrence Faucette, 58, got the transplant just six weeks earlier at the University of Maryland Medical Center in an experimental... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - November 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
