Turning garbage into gasThe HinduThe threats come from particulate emissions that greatly exacerbate lung diseases from bronchitis and asthma to emphysema and lung cancer, and from dioxins and furans in addition to the usual nitrogen and sulphur oxide …
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Smoke-Sensing Knife Spots Cancer
ABC News At a demonstration in London on Wednesday, doctors used the new knife — which resembles a fat white pen — to slice into slabs of pig’s liver. Within minutes, the room was filled with an acrid-smelling smoke comparable to the fumes that would be … Now, ‘intelligent knife’ that tells which tissue is cancerousNewstrack India |
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Splitting donated livers shown to be safe, allowing doctors to save two lives …
Medical Xpress Split liver transplantation carries no increased risk of failure in either recipient, allowing surgeons to safely save two lives from a single donated organ (graft), according to new research from Boston Children’s Hospital published online in the … |
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Fighting the FDA’s Antiquated Policy on Blood Donation
Huffington Post On July 12, 2013, documentarian Ryan James Yezak championed the first National Gay Blood Drive in order to combat the outdated and antiquated Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance document that has banned men who have sex with men … Gay Men Can’t Donate Blood, but Some Are Trying AnywayVICE Across the Nation, Protests Call for End to Gay Blood BanEDGEOnTheNet Gay blood drive demonstration held in Lincoln ParkWindy City Times |
Exercise, endurance sports increase arryhthmia and heart failure risk in …Medical XpressA Johns Hopkins study finds that healthy people who carry a genetic mutation for arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) are at much hi…
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Johns Hopkins Medicine
Newswise (press release) “The results of this study reveal for the first time that the amount and intensity of exercise among people who carry a mutation increase the likelihood of developing ventricular arrhythmias — a very serious heart rhythm disturbance, and heart failure … |
Liver transplant leads to healthy childhood for Cape boyIsland ReporterBetsy Edwards, senior public affairs coordinator for the LifeLink Foundation, said after an individual suffers an irrecoverable brain injury and is declared brain dead or is rapidly…
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Young techies battle infertility, sexual disorders
The Hindu “A major reason for erectile dysfunction is lack of proper blood flow to the male organ. If the underlying reason is left untreated it can result in heart attacks or brain strokes,” Dr. Acharya warned. He also advised that couples should seek medical … |
Exercise, endurance sports increase arryhthmia and heart failure risk in …EurekAlert (press release)A Johns Hopkins study finds that healthy people who carry a genetic mutation for arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) ar…
Tylenol-induced liver failure presents own set of problems: studyMedical XpressFor the study, published online in the journal Liver Transplantation, the researchers analyzed data from more than 280 patients who were diagnosed with acute liver failure b…