A Concord man is the latest recipient of an unusual procedure: He's had his kidney replaced with one from a pig.
Prehospital measurement of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) can rapidly differentiate intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) from ischemic stroke (IS) and stroke mimics.
On the day of his out-patient procedure to remove a kidney stone, Chad Gerlaugh drove himself to Morton Plant Hospital in a specially modified van. A quadriplegic since a 1998 car accident damaged his ...
More than 60,000 people bleed to death every year in the U.S. Many of those deaths occur before the patient reaches a trauma ...