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Weybridge man is hospital trust's newest deputy medical director - Elmbridge Today PDF Print
Elmbridge Today
Dr James Marsh has worked at the trust for eight years, having joined as a renal consultant in 2003. He was then made lead consultant for transplantation and, subsequently, clinical director for renal services. A key part of his new role will be to

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Canadian Blood Services urges revamp of organ donor system - Globe and Mail PDF Print
Globe and Mail
The Canadian Blood Services Call to Action report says implementing its recommendations would result in almost 1000 more life-saving transplants annually and get patients off costly dialysis. Although the costs of implementation would be high during

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Transplant athletes go for gold - Irish Times PDF Print
Irish Times
It's a big responsibility, but one the nephrology registrar at Beaumont Hospital should be more than capable of handling after her baptism of fire as medical director of the European Transplant and Dialysis Games, which took place in Dublin last year.

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FDA Medwatch: Risk of thyroid calcitonin tumors (in rodents) and pancreatitis with liraglutide. PDF Print
FDA: Liraglutide causes dose-dependent and treatment-duration-dependent thyroid C-cell tumors at clinically relevant exposures in both genders of rats and mice. It is unknown whether Victoza causes thyroid C-cell tumors, including medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), in humans, as human relevance could not be ruled out by clinical or nonclinical studies. Additionally, in clinical trials studying Victoza, there were more cases of pancreatitis in patients treated with Victoza than in patients treated with comparators.

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Aftermath of European E. Coli-related HUS outbreak - 100 may need kidney transplants. PDF Print
The Local: Karl Lauterbach, health spokesman for the opposition Social Democrats, has warned that some of those who have fallen ill in the E. coli epidemic could face severe health problems. “Around 100 patients have suffered such terrible kidney damage that they will require a transplant or have to undergo dialysis for the rest of their lives,” he told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

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