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Fewer brain deaths hurting organ donation rates, study finds
Calgary Herald Fewer southern Alberta patients who suffer traumatic brain injuries are being declared “brain-dead” — a phenomenon that could help explain why the province’s organ donation rates are falling, Calgary researchers say. In an article published Monday in … Fewer ‘brain dead’ patients means less organ donors when need for transplants …National Post Fewer ‘Brain Dead’ Diagnoses After Brain Injuries May Explain Stagnant Organ …Medical Daily Brain death on the decline in Canada: studyThe Globe and Mail Canada.com –Toronto Star –CBC.ca all 11 news articles » |
Brain death decline may explain fall in organ donations – CBC.ca
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Brain death decline may explain fall in organ donations
CBC.ca Knowing that hospital death rates have decreased over time for critically ill patients with brain injury, researchers in Alberta checked to see if the proportion of patients with brain death also decreased for a group of 2,788 ICU patients in southern … Brain death on the decline in Canada: studyThe Globe and Mail Brain death rates dropToronto Star Fewer ‘brain dead’ patients means less organ donors when need for transplants …National Post MedPage Today –Canada.com –Calgary Herald all 11 news articles » |
Three pulmonologists join Athens Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine – Online Athens
Three pulmonologists join Athens Pulmonary and Sleep MedicineOnline AthensTongia completed her fellowship in pulmonary and critical care and residency in internal medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) and c…
Greenpeace and others are preventing millions of children from being saved … – Next Big Future
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Greenpeace and others are preventing millions of children from being saved …
Next Big Future Just this year, they started distributing new to farmers in Rwanda and a new kind of in India. … As for the possibility of eating foods that supply vitamin A, such as liver, leafy green vegetables and eggs, the people we’re targeting are too poor to … |
Hanford council will ask public about sales tax hike Tuesday – Hanford Sentinel
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Hanford council will ask public about sales tax hike Tuesday
Hanford Sentinel “Without more fire stations and staff, that’s going to continue to get worse,” Ieronimo said. Situations where a person is not breathing can result in irreversible brain death after six to 10 minutes. The time frame is the same for a structure fire to … |
Life with a new heart: Cheney, other transplant patients survive thanks to new … – Washington Post
Washington Post |
Life with a new heart: Cheney, other transplant patients survive thanks to new …
Washington Post … and is becoming a problem of engineering, miniaturization and, believe it or not, batteries,” says cardiologist Michael Hess , who directs the Pauley Heart Center’s heart transplantation program — one of the world’s oldest — at the Medical … |
Fewer 'brain dead' patients means drop in organ donations, researchers say – Canada.com
Canada.com |
Fewer ‘brain dead’ patients means drop in organ donations, researchers say
Canada.com The 10-year study of nearly 2,788 brain injured adults in southern Alberta found the proportion who progressed to brain death has fallen dramatically, from eight per cent at the start of the study, in 2002, to four per cent in 2012, and a low of 2.2 … |
Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Singer and Rock Legend, Dies at 71 – Radio.com News
New YorkerLou Reed, Velvet Underground Singer and Rock Legend, Dies at 71Radio.com NewsUpdate: According to the New York Times, the cause of death was liver disease, so said Dr. Charles Miller of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where Reed underwent his l…
Putting canines to good use – GreaterKashmir.com
Putting canines to good useGreaterKashmir.comLiver transplantation is an established therapy for both acute and chronic liver failure. However, graft dysfunction remains a problem affecting up to one-third of the recipients, despite reports of good to …
Alberta to introduce new legislation on flood recovery, organ donation … – Sun News Network
Sun News NetworkAlberta to introduce new legislation on flood recovery, organ donation …Sun News NetworkEDMONTON — The provincial government will introduce legislation addressing flood recovery, organ donation and environmental protection this fall,…