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Siemens to Create Companion Diagnostic Test for In-Development Janssen …
DailyFinance Heart failure is generally a progressive disease characterized by the heart muscle’s inability to adequately pump oxygenated blood through the body. An estimated 23 million people around the world have been diagnosed with heart failure, a number that … |
New York Daily NewsToo much sugar is a highway to heart failure: StudyFirstpostHouston: Eating too much sugar can set people down a pathway to heart failure, a new study has warned. A single small molecule, the glucose metabolite glucose 6-phosphate (G…
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Trei oameni pe oră mor sau sunt mutilaţi în traficul de organe. Printre victime …
RTV.NET Potrivit organizaţiei Organs Watch, un hindus poate primi circa o mie de dolari pe piaţa neagră pentru rinichiul dat; un român, 2.700 dolari; un turc, până la 10.000 de dolari. Clienţii, la rândul lor, le plătesc intermediarilor până la 200.000 de … |
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Facebook’s Organ Donor Feature Encourages More People to Get on the List
TIME Last May, Facebook announced that users could post their organ donor status to their Facebook Timelines. To see whether this strategy was effective in boosting donor rates, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore … Facebook’s Organ Donor Status Spurs Boost in AwarenessBloomberg Facebook update prompts massive upswing in organ donor registrationsWired.co.uk The Facebook effect: Social media dramatically boosts organ donor registrationEurekAlert (press release) NBCNews.com (blog) –Medical Daily all 11 news articles » |
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Sunshine Heart’s C-Pulse Device Reaches Treatment Milestone for Heart Failure
NASDAQ EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., June 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sunshine Heart, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSH) today announced a major milestone for its flagship C-Pulse device. As of today, C-Pulse has been implanted in 25 patients in North America and Germany, … |
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Heart of real India beats for cricket
The Asian Age Talking about this exciting project Shlok says that when he was asked to make a film to represent ‘the real India and its youth’, cricket was the first thing that came to his mind. “Nothing else can describe the passion and dedication with which Indian … |
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Leeds patient with heart failure to meet MPs
Yorkshire Evening Post Nick Hartshorne-Evans, CEO and trustee of Pumping Marvellous, said: “With hospital admissions for heart failure projected to increase by 50 per cent over the next 25 years, we urge that an all-party parliamentary group is set up to tackle such issues.”. Painswick heart patient takes message to Houses of ParliamentThis is Gloucestershire |
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Blood donation campaign to be held during Ramadan
Daijiworld.com Dubai, Jun 18: ‘Donate blood, save life and live healthy’, thanks to all the donors and all the members of community associations of Karnataka in UAE who took part in ‘Save life campaign’. Few enthusiastic members of Tulunadu with the wise leadership … |
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Grief can make you so very ill
Times of India My mother died of lung cancer two years ago, and I was with her through it. This may be an experience that almost all of us go through — a parent’s death — but that doesn’t mitigate the pain or loss. I connected with others like me. Support groups … |
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From Nepal, a Push to End Human Trafficking
New York Times But now there are lots of cases of trafficking for cheap labor, forced labor, trafficking for marriage, trafficking for organ transplants. The law … Even though Nepal shares a long border with China, it isn’t very accessible, particularly compared to … |