Italy's Resilience Plan for Healthcare Is Falling Apart Italy's Resilience Plan for Healthcare Is Falling Apart
A plan intended to bolster Italy ' s healthcare system immediately attracted critics and is now the target of funding cuts.Medscape Family Medicine (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - September 21, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Commentary Source Type: news
Telethon Foundation Will Make and Distribute ADA-SCID Drug Telethon Foundation Will Make and Distribute ADA-SCID Drug
The initiative will ensure the availability of a drug that otherwise would have been abandoned as unprofitable.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - September 19, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Allergy & Clinical Immunology News Source Type: news
Islet+Kidney Transplants Boost Survival in Type 1 Diabetes Islet+Kidney Transplants Boost Survival in Type 1 Diabetes
Patients who receive islet transplants along with donor kidneys had significantly lower risks of transplant failure and mortality compared to kidney alone.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Minute: Breaking healthcare barriers in the Hispanic community
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from Sept. 15 –Oct. 15. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the more than 60 million people of Hispanic heritage living in the U.S. Dr. Juan Carlos Leoni Moreno, a Mayo Clinic transplant cardiologist, says soaring obesity rates contribute to high rates of diabetes and heart disease in the Hispanic population. And healthcare disparities, including cultural differences, language barriers and lack of information, add to the challenges many Hispanic residents face. Watch: The Mayo Clinic… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - September 18, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Implanting pancreas cells from a donor into the liver of type 1 diabetes patients helps them live longer, research shows
A trial of the op, led by French scientists, has shown promising results for type 1 diabetics who undergo a kidney transplant. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 16, 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
eGFR With Creatinine and Kidney Transplant Outcomes eGFR With Creatinine and Kidney Transplant Outcomes
Estimated glomerular filtration rate based on serum creatinine may better determine the risk for adverse outcomes after kidney transplantation.Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - September 15, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Nephrology Journal Article Source Type: news
Fresh Blood Not Always the Best Blood?
(MedPage Today) -- Longer storage of red blood cell (RBC) units was associated with longer transplant survival in kidney transplant patients receiving early transfusions, a retrospective study in France found.
Among 3,483 kidney recipients who... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - September 15, 2023 Category: Surgery 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
Statins and Recurrence of HCC After Liver Transplantation Statins and Recurrence of HCC After Liver Transplantation
While previous studies suggested that statin use could suppress the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma in liver transplant recipients, this study found significant errors in methodology.Liver International (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Gastroenterology Journal Article Source Type: news
Universal Monovalent COVID Vaccines Backed by CDC Universal Monovalent COVID Vaccines Backed by CDC
With COVID hospitalizing about 17,000 people a week in the US, according to the CDC, the CDC ' s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted nearly unanimously in favor of new XBB-containing shots.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - September 13, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Bad Blood: Could Brain Bleeds Be Contagious? Bad Blood: Could Brain Bleeds Be Contagious?
Dr F. Perry Wilson reviews a study suggesting that what we thought was a purely random disease might actually be an infectious one.Medscape (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - September 12, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Internal Medicine Commentary Source Type: news
FDA OKs Motixafortide for Stem Cell Mobilization in Myeloma FDA OKs Motixafortide for Stem Cell Mobilization in Myeloma
The GENESIS trial reported substantially better stem cell mobilization when patients with multiple myeloma received motixafortide alongside filgrastim.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - September 11, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Alert Source Type: news
McConnell ’ s Bid to Downplay Freezes Undermined by History of Politicians Lying About Their Health
After Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze during a press conference this month, the Kentucky Republican’s second such episode this summer, his office released a note from the Capitol physician intended to calm those worried about his ability to continue at his job.
Dr. Brian Monahan told McConnell in the letter that there was “no evidence that you have a seizure disorder or that you experienced a stroke, TIA or movement disorder such as Parkinson’s disease.” Monahan suggested the episodes may be related to the Leader’s concussion in March or to dehydration.
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Source: TIME: Health - September 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mini Racker Tags: Uncategorized Congress Source Type: news
