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VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
With a large number of children waiting for heart transplants, researchers have now developed miniature pumps known as ventricular assist devices to help them bridge the gap to transplantation. The device, which has been successfully used in children younger than 5, takes over for a damaged heart and helps keep the patient alive as they wait for a long time until a donated organ is available, a study...
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www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
What is Best New inventions? Best New inventions is a startup company looking for investors, inventors, collaborators, and others looking to design, develop, and market new Source: bestnewinventions.com New Scientist invention BlogGrowing numbers of people are waiting for heart transplants. And engineers are developing miniature pumps known as ventricular assist devices [...]
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Fitness Watch (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
They can't even figure out when someone's dead... "A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?" Do you really trust them to know that fat person surgery or fat person diet pills are safe? If you do... Pray for stupid person treatment.
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Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
THE head of Scotland's heart transplant service last night vowed to carry on with "high-risk" operations despite his unit having been closed down earlier this year
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WBJournal.com (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
HeartWare Ltd., an Australian company with an American office in Framingham, announced the first U.S. patient has received the company's miniaturized blood pump, which is the first of a clinical trial of 150 patients awaiting heart transplants.
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www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Top health news stories, events, findings, information and research on Yahoo! Health AP - A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy Source: health.yahoo.com
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Babylune (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Heart transplants are normally something that makes everyone feel uncomfortable wether people admit to it or not but this case has everyone upset, morally and emotionally. But this time many wonder if what the doctors did were right. You be the judge. Doctors went head to head as someone decided it would be okay to [...]
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
NEW YORK: A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focussing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can one be declared dead? For decades, organs have typically been removed only after ...
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Secondhand Smoke (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
There is a story out today that I find very disturbing, for it both reflects the apparent urge among some organ professionals to cross crucial ethical boundaries and promotes public confusion about when someone can be properly declared dead. It involves heart transplants from babies and implies strongly that ethical rules were ignored in the organ procurement procedure. From the AP story : The Denver...
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VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
A debate has sparked among U.S. surgeons over deciding when an organ donor can be pronounced dead after a team of doctors from Denver published their first account of infant organ transplantation. A detailed description of the transplants in Wednesday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine says the surgeons removed the hearts of severely brain-damaged newborns less than two minutes after the...
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Surgeons in Denver are publishing their first account of a controversial procedure in which they remove the hearts of severely brain-damaged newborns less than two minutes after the babies are disconnected from life support, and their hearts stop beating, so the organs can be transplanted into infants who would otherwise die.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
The report focuses on a procedure in which heart transplants are performed before newborns meet criteria for brain death.
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Get Mash (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
AP - A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead? Read the full story
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bioethics.com (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead? For decades, organs have typically been removed only after doctors determine that a donor’s brain has completely stopped working. In the case of the infants, all three were [...]
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Docuticker (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit Mandates for Health Insurance Source: Pacific Research Institute From press release: The Pacific Research Institute today released the findings of a new report reviewing the impact of state benefit mandates on the uninsured. According to From Heart Transplants to Hairpieces: The Questionable Benefits of State Benefit [...]...
