Chatting Up Patients on Dialysis Improves Their HealthChatting Up Patients on Dialysis Improves Their Health
Lab values for 75% of patients on hemodialysis improved after patients regularly shared information with healthcare professionals. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)

Prochymal - First Stem Cell Drug Approved
For the first time in history a stem cell drug has been approved for market authorization. Prochymal® (remestemcel-L) is also the first drug to be approved for the treatment of acute graft-vs-host disease (GvHD) in children, a devastating complication of bone marrow transplantation that kills almost 80% of all affected children, many of which just weeks after they have been diagnosed. GvHD is the leading cause of transplant-related mortality, caused by an immunologic attack... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)