The Donate Life Film Festival honoring Hollywood actors, producers and writer who promoted positive stories about organ donation and transplantation over the past year opens tonight at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, CA. The opening event features a VIP cocktail party hosted by Ann Lopez, wife of, and kidney donor to comedian [Sign in to read the full article...]

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) handling of the H1N1 pandemic has come under attack from several European countries charging the agency exaggerated the threat posed by the virus and failing to disclose possible influence by the pharmaceutical industry on its recommendations for how countries should respond, the Washington Post reported. The WHO’s response, caused widespread, [Sign in to read the full article...]

A new and non-controversial source of stem cells can form heart muscles and help repair heart damage, according to results of preliminary lab tests reported in Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association. Investigators in Japan used the amniotic membrane – the inner lining of the sac in which an embryo develops – to [Sign in to read the full article...]

A drug commonly used to treat gout may help maintain the health of patients with kidney disease, according to a new study. The research is reported to be the first to show that allopurinol treatment in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) decreases inflammation, slows the progression of kidney disease, and reduces patients’ risk of [Sign in to read the full article...]

After reviewing the medical records of more than 20,000 heart transplant patients, transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins have concluded it is not simply racial differences, but rather flows in the health care system, along with the type of insurance and education levels, in addition to biological factors, that are likely the causes of disproportionately worse [Sign in to read the full article...]