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Clinical Care
FBI Investigating Newark Beth Israel's Transplant Program for Possible FraudThe medical center's transplant director instructed staff to keep a vegetative patient alive, and not to discuss options such as...
Clinical Care
Despite Reforms, Problems Remain When Selecting Heart Transplant CandidatesStudy finds large discrepancies in the severity of illness among patients when they receive heart transplants.
Clinical Care
'It's Very Unethical': Audio Shows Hospital Kept Vegetative Patient on Life Support to Boost Survival RatesDarryl Young suffered brain damage during a heart transplant at Newark Beth Israel and never woke up. Doctors kept him...
Clinical Care
Attempt to Revamp Waitlist Policy for Pediatric Heart Transplant Candidates Falls ShortChildren with two subtypes of cardiomyopathy ? hypertrophic or restrictive ? are now dying on the waitlist at a rate...
Clinical Care
PC Docs Face Obstacles Identifying, Managing Chronic Kidney DiseasePrimary care physicians complain about a lack of access to CKD clinical information systems, insufficient patient education materials.
Clinical Care
A 'No-Brainer'? Calls Grow For Medicare To Cover Anti-Rejection Drugs After Kidney TransplantLast week's announcement of a Trump administration overhaul of kidney care in the U.S. has reanimated an effort by federal...
Clinical Care
Mini-Biographies Help Clinicians Connect With PatientsIn a program called My Life, My Story, volunteer writers seek out vets at the VA hospitals, ask them all...
Clinical Care
Fatal Opioid Overdoses Provide 'Favorable' Organ DonorsA new study challenges the rationale used to reject the use of vital organs harvested from deceased opioid users.
Finance
CMS: Decision on CAR-T Therapy Coverage Delayed But 'Forthcoming'The therapies have price tags as high as $425,000, which some say is a worthwhile investment.
Clinical Care
Changes Afoot for Kidney Disease Payment in MedicareHHS Secretary Alex Azar tells the annual Kidney Patient Summit that his department wants to encourage more transplants and home...
Clinical Care
Two New Lawsuits Allege Surgical Errors During Heart Transplants at St. Luke's in HoustonIn one case, a patient claims a surgeon sewed a major vein closed, causing blood to back up in his...