Former Vice-President Richard Cheney was implanted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) last week The 69-year-old Cheney, who has a long history of cardiac disease, suffered the first of five heart attacks at the age of 37. A source close to the family and his surgeons said the family has not decided whether to [Sign in to read the full article...]

Patients who suffer from IgA nephropathy can often delay or prevent the loss of kidney function by receiving treatment with steroids, according to a new study. IgA nephropathy is caused by deposits of the protein in the kidneys. It is an autoimmune disease that is a major cause of end-stage kidney failure in younger people. [Sign in to read the full article...]

A 16-year-old Texas teenager has become the recipient of a rare triple-organ transplant at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Taylor Sherrouse of Brenham, TX, underwent a 13-hour surgery on Tuesday, June 22 to replace her heart, lungs and liver, which had been severely damaged by cystic fibrosis. Sherrouse joined a select club as one of [Sign in to read the full article...]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in early July it has approved the Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT) to improve vision in some patients with end-stage, age-related macular degeneration (AMD). When surgically implanted in one eye, the IMT, the replaces the patient’s natural lens and provides an image that has been magnified more than two [Sign in to read the full article...]

Individuals with a high resting heart rate and a low beat-to-beat heart rate variability have an increased risk of developing kidney disease. The findings, which appear in the current issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), suggest that the behavior of the autonomic nervous system may be a sentinel marker for [Sign in to read the full article...]