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  BTS 2016: Best practice immunosuppression – no more Mr Nice Guy. Interview with Lorna Marson, Lisa Burnapp and Professor Derek Manas from the BTS executive discuss the potential impact on patients if the appeal fails and Professor Nigel Heaton and Dr Varuna Aluvihare (Kings College Hospital) give a surgeon and hepatologist’s view on how NICE renal guidance might affect liver transplantation.

  Written by Lorraine Carolan | 15 Mar 2016

  Best practice immunosuppression – no more Mr Nice Guy.   Nicholas Torpey, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Overview by Maria Dalby The updated recommendations from the National Institute for Health… read more.

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  BTS 2016: Best practice immunosuppression – no more Mr Nice Guy. Interview with Lorna Marson, Lisa Burnapp and Professor Derek Manas from the BTS executive discuss the potential impact on patients if the appeal fails and Professor Nigel Heaton and Dr Varuna Aluvihare (Kings College Hospital) give a surgeon and hepatologist's view on how NICE renal guidance might affect liver transplantation.

  Written by Lorraine Carolan | 15 Mar 2016

  Best practice immunosuppression – no more Mr Nice Guy.   Nicholas Torpey, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Overview by Maria Dalby The updated recommendations from the National Institute for Health… read more.

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  BTS 2016: Lorna Marson and Professor John O’Grady discuss proposals for changes to the current kidney and liver allocation schemes in the UK.

  Written by Lorraine Carolan | 14 Mar 2016

  Organ Allocation: looking to the future.  An interview with Lorna Marson (University of Edinburgh) and Professor John O’Grady (Kings College Hospital, London)

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  Meta-analysis suggests need for wider use of blood pressure-lowering drugs

  Written by Bruce Sylvester | 7 Jan 2016

  by Bruce Sylvester: No matter what their blood pressure is at the beginning of treatment, blood pressure-lowering drugs should be offered to all persons at high risk of… read more.

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  Viagra ups insulin sensitivity in prediabetes

  Written by Bruce Sylvester | 4 Jan 2016

  by Bruce Sylvester: Treatment with sildenafil, marketed as Viagra and other trade names, appears to improve insulin sensitivity in persons with prediabetes, as well as lowering a biological… read more.

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  ESOT 2015: Tailored self-management interventions for vulnerable populations

  Written by Lorraine Carolan | 20 Nov 2015

  by Maria Dalby: Self-management after undergoing transplantation requires skills and confidence both with respect to taking medications, adhering to medical advice and coping with everyday life.

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  ESOT 2015: Tailor-made immunosuppression and post-transplant follow-up

  Written by Lorraine Carolan | 19 Nov 2015

  by Maria Dalby: Advances in diagnostic techniques, genetic testing and immunosuppressive protocols allow clinicians to tailor interventions to the individual patient’s needs to a greater extent than in… read more.

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  ESOT 2015: The enemy within: improving adherence. Professor John Forsythe (Edinburgh), Dr Luis Guirado Fundació Puigvert (Barcelona), Lorna Marson (Edinburgh) and Dr Peter Nickerson (Manitoba) discuss the issues around non-adherance in renal transplantation.

  Written by Lorraine Carolan | 10 Nov 2015

  Non-adherence with immunosuppressive treatment is potentially one of the most significant risk factors for intra-patient variability (IPV) in drug concentrations – and one that is modifiable. The link… read more.

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  Bedtime dosing of blood pressure drugs reduces diabetes risk

  Written by Bruce Sylvester | 2 Nov 2015

  by Bruce Sylvester: Blood pressure drug dosing at bedtime instead of  in the morning not only lowers blood pressure during sleep but significantly reduces the risk of type… read more.

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  Video Interview and editorial from the BSH 2015: Professor Graham Jackson discusses the journey from despair to hope in multiple myeloma. Click on the image for interview and editorial.

  Written by Christine Clark | 1 Jun 2015

  Graham Jackson, Professor of Clinical haematology, Newcastle upon Tyne and former president of the British Society for Haematology (BSH). Article by Christine Clark: In the 1970s the prospect… read more.

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  Men far less likely to prevent, screen for osteoporosis

  Written by Lorraine Carolan | 19 May 2015

  While the consequences of osteoporosis are worse in men than women – including death – older males are far less likely to take preventive measures against the potentially… read more.

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  ACC Report 2015: Digoxin treatment for atrial fibrillation tied to higher mortality

  Written by Bruce Sylvester | 31 Mar 2015

  by Bruce Sylvester: Atrial fibrillation patients treated with digoxin have a 27 percent greater risk of dying than atrial fibrillation patients not treated with the drug, according to… read more.