Test to predict death risk from C. difficile
Accurate, robust and simple method of identification has potential benefits to patients, hospitals and health services around the world.
Accurate, robust and simple method of identification has potential benefits to patients, hospitals and health services around the world.
Taken from the NEJM – by Bruce Sylvester – Three biomarkers in the urine of kidney transplant recipients can be used to diagnose and predict transplant rejection, researchers… read more.
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) does not appear to be a risk following administration of several common vaccines, including seasonal trivalent inactivated influenza vaccines, researchers found.
Erasmus virus resets cells’ genes and causes breathing distress and kidney failure. A new virus that causes severe breathing distress and kidney failure elicits a distinctive airway cell… read more.
In fibromyalgia patients undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery, low-dose, intraoperative ketamine appeared to reduce the need for post-surgical opioid therapy, researchers said.
The pain-relieving efficacy of the buprenorphine transdermal medication system didn’t seem to be altered by a patient’s body mass, researchers said.
Taken from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) – by Bruce Sylvester – Forty-eight weeks of antiretroviral treatment in the early stages of HIV infection delays damage… read more.
A study released today from the upcoming issue of the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (JPIDS) found that taking early and repeated white blood cell counts (WBC) is… read more.
Studies of stem cell biology and transplant approaches presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Haematology (ASH) illustrate how the use of advanced modelling… read more.
by Sung Choi, M.D., University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center (pictured) First study in humans shows promise for preventing graft-versus-host disease following bone marrow transplant.
Details of prizes/awards at the 24th International Congress of the Transplantation Society
by Zara Qadir reporting on the presentation by Yechiel Hekster (pictured), Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, and a member of The Netherlands Medicines Evaluation Board.