It is unclear how often kidney donors have trouble obtaining insurance, but advocates say the fear of being uninsurable may be a powerful deterrent to donation.
27 % of LA Homeless Adults Have Hepatitis C
26.7 percent of homeless adults tested and surveyed in downtown Los Angeles' skid row were infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) — more than 10 times the 2 percent rate among the general U.S. population. 46.1 percent of them were unaware that …
The Seema Rai case in Satyamev Jayate: Time to bell the cat? – Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine
The Seema Rai case in Satyamev Jayate: Time to bell the cat?Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazineHere is the full story of what went wrong in that case starting from the fact that Fortis did not even have the licence to perform pancreas transpla…
Okyanos Heart Institute to host June seminar in Florida on congestive heart … – thebahamasweekly.com
thebahamasweekly.comOkyanos Heart Institute to host June seminar in Florida on congestive heart …thebahamasweekly.comIn the seminar, Dr. Walpole will discuss the role of adult stem cell therapy and its potential benefits for people with CAD in danger…
New Liver Won't Prevent a New Baby – dailyRx
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Stem cell transplant done on 3-yr-old cancer patient in PGIMER – Hindustan Times
Zee NewsStem cell transplant done on 3-yr-old cancer patient in PGIMERHindustan TimesStem cell transplant on a three-year-old boy suffering from a rare type of cancer has been done successfully for the first time at the Post Graduate Institute of …St…
ABC anchor Robin Roberts to undergo bone marrow transplant
Five years off a fight with breast cancer, Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts faces another battle with her health.
Rule Combo Accurately Predicts Organ Failure in Pancreatitis – MD News (press release)
MD News (press release)Rule Combo Accurately Predicts Organ Failure in PancreatitisMD News (press release)A series of 12 predictive rules that combines existing scoring systems in patients with acute pancreatitis improves the accuracy of predicting per…
Robin Roberts of TV's "Good Morning America" battling blood disorder
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Robin Roberts, an anchor on ABC's "Good Morning America" program who beat breast cancer five years ago, said on Monday she has myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disorder triggered by her cancer treatment. Roberts, 51,…
Saving lives through organ donation
About 650 runners and walkers took part Sunday in the 3rd annual Race to Donate Life 5K. Organizers say there are a number of myths surrounding organ donation.