Organ Allocation: looking to the future. An interview with Lorna Marson (University of Edinburgh) and Professor John O’Grady (Kings College Hospital, London)
The BTS Executive and delegates share their highlights of the British Transplantation Society Annual Congress held from 24th-26th February 2016, Glasgow SECC.
by Bruce Sylvester: Among adults with chronic sinusitis and nasal polyps who do not respond to intranasal corticosteroids, addition of investigative dupilumab to mometasone furoate nasal spray compared… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Ivacaftor appears to be safe and efficacious for children ages 2 to and 5 with a specific type of cystic fibrosis, researchers reported on Jan…. read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Researchers report that corticosteroids treatment of mothers at risk for late preterm delivery significantly reduces the incidence of severe respiratory complications in their babies.
by Bruce Sylvester: Benzodiazepine therapy in older adults is not associated with an increase in dementia risk, researchers reported on Feb. 2, 2016 in The BMJ today.
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by Bruce Sylvester: Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) treatment with the clot-busting drug alteplase appears to be an effective way to decrease mortality in intraventricular hemorrhage, a catastrophic type… read more.
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by Gary Finnegan: Researchers have developed a new scoring system that rates women’s risk of Caesarean section. The study combines a range of indicators to help maternity hospitals… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: HIV is easier than ever to prevent, detect and treat. Yet while life expectancy for people with the virus have improved over the past decade,… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Good news in the battle against cancer: death rates from leukaemia among people of all ages in Europe are falling.
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