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Liver Transplant Policy Change Increases Kidney Failure Risk

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— The risk for kidney failure among liver transplant recipients is higher following the implementation of Model of End Stage Liver Disease (MELD), a policy change in 2002 that altered how liver transplant allocation is decided, according to University of ...More
January 18, 2012
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Researchers Make Miniature Human Livers in Lab

In an early, but fascinating, breakthrough Wake Forest researchers have used human liver cells to create miniature livers that function, in the lab setting, like human livers. The next step in the process is to see if these livers can survive transplantation in animals. ...More
November 4, 2010
Posted in Blog, Clinical & Pharma
Sandoz Launches Generic Prograf

Novartis AG’s Sandoz business unit announced that it will introduce tacrolimus capsules, a generic equivalent of Prograf®, in the United States. Tacrolimus is an immunosuppressive treatment used to help prevent rejection of a kidney or liver transplant. ...More
August 11, 2009
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma
Link Between Obesity, Diabetes Discovered

Researchers at Monash University have discovered a critical link between obesity and the onset of type 2 diabetes, which may lead to the design of a drug to prevent the disease. ...More
July 8, 2009
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
FDA Issues Alert On Rapamune

The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert June 11 about Wyeth’s kidney-transplant drug Rapamune saying "the safety and efficacy of this drug in liver or lung transplant patients have not been established." Rapamune is ...More
June 16, 2009
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation
Study: Stem Cells Crucial to Diabetes Cure

HOUSTON—More than five years ago, Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory cured mice with type 1 diabetes by using a gene to induce liver cells to make insulin. ...More
March 17, 2009
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Study: Low-Carb Diet Burns More Liver Fat

DALLAS—People on low-carbohydrate diets are more dependent on the oxidation of fat in the liver for energy than those on a low-calorie diet, according to a study from researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.The findings, published in the journal Hepatology, ...More
January 20, 2009
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma
Do Financial Resources Affect Transplant Status?

The “ultimate inequality in healthcare” is what a recent Wall Street Journal blog called a study in the International Journal of Health Services, which revealed people without health insurance are about 20 times more likely to donate a liver or kidney than to receive one. ...More
November 21, 2008
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma