Organ Donation
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DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/20da41/cardiac_assist_dev) has announced the addition of the "Cardiac Assist Devices Market to 2017 - Increasing Uptake of Ventricular Assist Devices and Total Artificial Heart to Drive Growth" report...
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Leukemia
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MASON, Ohio -- As part of its mission to improve the lives of the people it serves and the health of Ohio communities, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced that the health...
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Tissue & Organ Banks
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Blood & Organ Banks
AUSTIN, Texas -- Under a new agreement, the Blood and Tissue Center of Central Texas will track all of its implantable tissue allografts with IMS' ReadyTracker-Tissue, a leading web-based application for tracking biologic...
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Orthopedics
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Informational Portal Educates Patients, Public About Allograft Tissue ALACHUA, Fla. -- RTI Biologics Inc. (RTI) (Nasdaq: RTIX), a leading provider of orthopedic and other biologic implants, has launched an informational website to educate...
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Transplant Surgery
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Surgery & Transplantation
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Medical Capital Advisors, a specialized mergers and acquisitions consulting firm focused solely on the medical technology industry, today announced that it advised The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF), the world's largest...
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Menopause
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Women's Health
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Allan Yang Wu, MD, FACPH, head of the Boutique Gynecology Program at The Morrow Institute Medical Group, Inc., Rancho Mirage, CA, recently became a diplomate of the American Board...
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Transplant Surgery
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Surgery & Transplantation
Its developers spent nearly 30 years working on the artificial heart before Barney Clark received the Jarvik 7 in 1982. There are those today who predict it will be about two more decades--give...
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Publication: Transplant News |
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Transplant Surgery
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Surgery & Transplantation
Nominees for 2012 UNOS Board of Directors--* President--John Roberts, MD, UCSF Medical Center * Vice President/President-Elect (vote for one)--Kenneth Andreoni, MD, Ohio State University Medical Center; Silas Norman, MPH, University of Michigan Medical...
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Publication: Transplant News |
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Anemia
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Blood Disorders
Correcting anemia can preserve kidney function in many kidney transplant recipients according to a new study in the January 2012 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. The results of the study indicated...
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Transplant news developments in 2011 a mixture of the good, the bad, the sad, the not and the weird.
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Health Departments
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Government Departments & Authorities
The year 2011 may not go down as the most memorable on record but it certainly had its share of Good News--The Social Security Administration announced it is adding 12 Compassionate Allowances conditions...
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Publication: Transplant News |
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Armed Forces
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Defense Departments
After several years of study, increasingly frequent news reports of patients undergoing a face or hand transplant, and the blessing of US transplant organizations, the federal government has taken the first step to...
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| Publication: Transplant News |
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Transplant Surgery
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Surgery & Transplantation
Organ allocation will never be perfect. The technical success of organ transplantation will always be offset by the frustrating irony of insufficient organ availability. So our field must continue to strive for the...
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RTI Biologics Achieves 98.7 Percent Equipment Performance Rating - Recognized in Evolution Magazine.
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Transplant Surgery
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ALACHUA, Fla. -- RTI Biologics Inc. (RTI) (Nasdaq:RTIX), a leading provider of orthopedic and other biologic implants, was recognized in the 2011 fourth edition of Evolution magazine for achieving a 98.7 percent equipment...
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Grants & Gifts
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Philanthropy
STRATFORD, Conn. -- CyberAlert, Inc., the worldwide media monitoring service, has extended the deadline to January 9 for not-for-profit organizations to apply for one of the Company's 2012 PR grants. Each grant consists...
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Transplant Surgery
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Surgery & Transplantation
BILLERICA, Mass. -- Dr. Assad Hassoun, liver transplant surgeon, and Dr. Barry Rose, liver transplant anesthesiologist, both of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, CA, have just returned home from a humanitarian...
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Transplant Surgery
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Surgery & Transplantation
PASADENA, Calif. -- Almost 2,000 Hispanics donate organs every year in the United States, saving countless lives in the process, a contribution that will be recognized by the Donate Life float taking part...
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Organ Donation
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Medical Treatments & Procedures
BEAUMONT, Texas -- Texas mother will honor the lives of her two sons and thousands of others who gave the gift of life through organ and tissue donation as one of 28 people...
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Liver Disease
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Diseases & Disorders
NEWTON, Mass. -- Galectin TherapeuticsInc. (OTC: GALT), the leader in developing carbohydrate-based therapeutic compounds to inhibit galectin proteins, today announced that it presented a poster at the European Association for the Study of...
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Transplant Surgery
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Surgery & Transplantation
"This is a landmark event for children suffering from terminal heart failure." Charles D. Fraser, Jr., MD Texas Children's Hospital THE WOODLANDS, Texas & BERLIN -- The Berlin Heart Group announced today that...
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Surgery & Transplantation
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Medical Treatments & Procedures
* Opens "Hybrid" Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR) * Hoag Heart and Vascular Institute among select hospitals to use Edwards Lifesciences new heart valve * Named after Newport Beach couple who donated $2 million...
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