(HealthDay News) — For kidney transplant (KT) candidates with obesity, sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is effective, and a considerable proportion of patients undergo KT within 20.9 months, according to a ...

AB-1002 is administered via antegrade intracoronary artery infusion. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to AB-1002 for the treatment of congestive heart failure ...

Retrospective data support use of oral anticoagulants for death and MACE risk reduction in patients with end-stage kidney disease and nonvalvular atrial fibrillation who have an elevated CHA2DS2-VASc ...

Re-irradiation of locally recurrent prostate cancer following primary external beam radiation therapy is associated with favorable outcomes. Salvage re-irradiation for locally recurrent prostate ...

There is a need for “diligent monitoring and reporting of long-term adverse effects of CAR-T therapy,” according to researchers. Researchers found higher-than-expected reports of second primary ...

A new diagnostic method for urinary tract infection in pediatric patients older than 2 months blends the liberal approach taken by the American Academy of Pediatrics 2011 guidelines and the ...

Certain levels of urinary CD4+ T lymphocytes in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis have a 60% and 98% sensitivity and specificity, respectively, for predicting future renal flares. Urinary CD4+ ...

Researchers identified 159 active pharmaceutical ingredients used in drugs approved for hematology and oncology indications, and 10% of these ingredients were linked to drugs in short supply. Roughly ...

Early initiation of dapagliflozin does not appear to interfere with diuretic treatment for heart failure. (HealthDay News) — For patients with acute heart failure (AHF), early initiation of ...

Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old man who was the world’s first living recipient of a genetically-modified pig kidney, has died. The world’s first living recipient of a genetically-modified pig kidney ...

Credit: Thinkstock Preoperative potassium levels in patients with bladder cancer could offer a cost-effective and convenient way to improve the accuracy of outcome predictions. Abnormal ...