ITS 2012 Report – Difficult donor issues in the time of donor shortages
by Maria Dalby – Introduction – In many ways waiting lists to receive an organ transplantation look very much the same today as they did a decade ago… read more.
by Maria Dalby – Introduction – In many ways waiting lists to receive an organ transplantation look very much the same today as they did a decade ago… read more.
by Maria Dalby – Patients receiving kidney transplants from human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched donors can be induced to develop tolerance to the graft and thereby avoid lifelong immunosuppressive… read more.
by Professor Stephen J Wigmore – Ischaemia reperfusion injury is an inevitable consequence of the process of clinical transplantation. Organ injury and delayed function are common events after… read more.
Serrated polyposis is one of the most common polyp syndromes in clinical practice and is often unrecognized during colonoscopy.
C. difficile is a bacterium that is common in the environment. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 337,000 cases of CDI are reported each… read more.
New research points to a potential role for UV light exposure and vitamin D levels in chronic digestive conditions such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (UC).
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) has awarded ESMO Designated Center of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care accreditation to 16 new oncology centres.
A new discovery that sheds light on the genetic make up of ovarian cancer cells could explain why some women survive longer than others with this deadly disease.
Men with prostate cancer in Texas may be driving more than three times farther than needed to obtain radiation oncology treatments for their cancer when treated at a… read more.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and early treatment is usually very successful. However, like other cancers, obesity increases the risk of aggressive… read more.
Malignant cells that leave a primary tumor, travel the bloodstream and grow out of control in new locations cause the vast majority of cancer deaths.
Metformin, a drug widely used to treat Type II diabetes, may help to prevent primary liver cancer
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