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Calcineurin-Inhibitor Withdrawal May Improve Renal Allograft Out...

MedPage Today Surgery  Thu, 06/19/2008 - 14:19

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Following kidney transplantation, a planned phase out of a calcineurin inhibitor from sirolimus (Rapamune)-based immunosuppression improves outcomes and reduces costs, a statistical model of the strategy suggested.


 

Allegedly Conflicted Institute Director Leaves NIH

Health Care Renewal  Mon, 02/11/2008 - 10:38

Last summer, we posted about allegations that Dr David Schwartz, then-director of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (part of the National Institutes, of Health, NIH), had several significant and previously undisclosed conflicts of interest.