ILTS 2012 Report – Meeting management goals among donors improves rates of organ use
by Thomas R. Collins – Establishing and adhering to management goals for organ donors boosts the percentage of livers that are utilized,
by Thomas R. Collins – Establishing and adhering to management goals for organ donors boosts the percentage of livers that are utilized,
Dr Irene Scalera, Fellow at the Liver Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, describes the ever-changing donor landscape and attempts to improve liver donor shortage.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers from a Phase III study report no difference in rates of viral clearance between two anemia management strategies for patients with chronic hepatitis… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that patients with genotype 2 or 3 hepatitis C virus (HCV) treated with investigative pegylated interferon lambda-1a (peg-IFN-lambda 1a, Bristol-Myers Squibb) in… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Two studies presented at EASL suggest the real human and economic costs of liver disease across Europe.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that combination ABT-450 with ritonavir (ABT-450/r, Abbott) plus ABT-333 plus ribavirin (RBV) is both well tolerated and led to high sustained virological… read more.
In order to promote the ongoing education in cancer care which is one of the objectives of the association the Cork branch holds an annual education update. In… read more.
For the first time, researchers have successfully injected cultured red blood cells (cRBCs) created from human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) into a human donor, according to study results… read more.
UCSF scientists aim to use embryonic stem cells for treatment.
Loyola researchers are reporting surprising findings about a molecule that helps ramp up the immune system in some cases and suppress it in others. The finding eventually could… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Nick Banner, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London. Heart transplantation activity in the UK is currently in decline.1
by Professor John Dark (pictured) – In contrast with that other thoracic organ the heart, activity and optimism in the pulmonary field are both increasing. Contemporay outcomes for… read more.
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