Search Tag: transplantation

Executive Health Management

Yolanda-becker-md-joins-lifegift-as-vice-president-and-chief-medical-officer

2023 05 Dec

LifeGift, a health services organization, which offers hope to individuals needing organ transplants in 109 Texas counties in Southeast, North and West Texas, announces Yolanda Becker, MD, FACS, FAST, has joined the team as vice president and chief medical officer and as a member of the organization’s strategic governance council.   Dr. Becker...Read more

Executive Health Management

Burnout-for-transplant-nurses

2015 12 Oct

According to a study published by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital, over half of nurses who work with organ transplant patients in the U.S. experience high levels of emotional exhaustion. The findings are published in Progress in Transplantation.  The study was led by senior staff psychologist Michelle Jesse, Ph.D, liver transplant surgeon Marwan...Read more

Executive Health Management

Latest-drug-reduces-fatal-transplant-side-effect-by-50

2013 04 Dec

According to researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center a new class of drugs is capable to reduce patients’ risk of contracting a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments. The innovative study, published in The Lancet Oncology and a first to test this treatment in humans,...Read more