Monthly Archives: January 2012

Amelia Rivera, Mentally Disabled, May Get Kidney Transplant After All – ABC News


ABC News

Amelia Rivera, Mentally Disabled, May Get Kidney Transplant After All
ABC News
Rivera blogged about what she said was her daughter's transplant "rejection" two weeks ago. The Riveras said a doctor at Children's Hospital had initially advised against a kidney transplant "because she was mentally retarded.

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Celldex Therapeutics: 52-Week High Recently Eclipsed (CLDX) – Financial News Network Online


Celldex Therapeutics: 52-Week High Recently Eclipsed (CLDX)
Financial News Network Online
The Company's products treat autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and inflammation, as well as infectious diseases and organ transplant rejection. In the past 52 weeks, Celldex Therapeutics share prices have been bracketed by a low of ...

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Metabolic Errors Affect DNA – Medical News Today


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Metabolic Errors Affect DNA
Medical News Today
Abnormal purine metabolism can also lead to side effects in individuals undergoing therapy with drugs classed as thiopurines, which are commonly used to treat leukemia, lymphoma, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and organ transplant rejection.
Metabolic errors can spell doom for DNAPhysOrg.com

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Celldex Therapeutics Up 6.5%, Shares Break Through Resistance (CLDX) – Financial News Network Online


Celldex Therapeutics Up 6.5%, Shares Break Through Resistance (CLDX)
Financial News Network Online
... uses applications of immunology to prevent and treat diseases. The Company's products treat autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and inflammation, as well as infectious diseases and organ transplant rejection. By Adrienne Chilton.

Preop evaluation before refractive IOL implantation – ModernMedicine


Preop evaluation before refractive IOL implantation
ModernMedicine
This patient was treated preoperatively with a topical prednisolone acetate 1% and cyclosporine (Restasis, Allergan), which, 1 week later, resulted in more consistent astigmatism measurements and improved topography. In another patient with dry eye and ...

Biogen Idec’s CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results – Earnings Call Transcript – Seeking Alpha


Biogen Idec's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
SELECT, the first of 2 registrational trials for Daclizumab, showed impressive clinical results in 2011 and supported the continuation of the second registrational study, DECIDE. We also completed enrollment for ADVANCE, our Phase III trial, ...

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Immunomodulators Market – Immunosuppressant Antibodies to Replace … – SBWire (press release)


Immunomodulators Market - Immunosuppressant Antibodies to Replace ...
SBWire (press release)
The first therapeutic mAb approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was Muromonab-CD3 (trade name Orthoclone OKT3), a murine IgG2a CD3 specific transplant rejection drug, also known as muromonab. It was approved in 1986 and was used in ...

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Professor uses snakes to research heart failure – Deseret News


Professor uses snakes to research heart failure
Deseret News
That change in heart size is the focus of recent research at the universities of Alabama and Colorado -- and payoff from the research may lead toward treatment for human congestive heart failure. In 2006, Secor was contacted by cardiac biologist Leslie ...

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Alabama professor studies snakes in hopes of unlocking clues about heart … – The Republic


Alabama professor studies snakes in hopes of unlocking clues about heart ...
The Republic
That change in heart size is the focus of recent research at the universities of Alabama and Colorado -- and payoff from the research may lead toward treatment for human congestive heart failure. In 2006, Secor was contacted by cardiac biologist Leslie ...

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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing may predict post-liver transplantation survival – Medical Xpress


Cardiopulmonary exercise testing may predict post-liver transplantation survival
Medical Xpress
Researchers from the UK determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following liver transplantation. Study results available in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, ...

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