Blood donation: what users sayHealth24.comAnonymous: I do no blood (or organ) donor things and never have. To me it is like being a cannibal. I believe when it is time to go – it is time to go irrespective because we all have a time allotted and by art…
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NeuroTronik, developing medical device for heart failure, closes $13.1M series A
WRAL Tech Wire Chapel Hill, N.C. — NeuroTronik, spun out of medical technology incubator Synecor, is developing a medical device that could take the place of drugs currently used to heart failure. Read more about the company’s technology, strategy and financing … |
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Deceased-donor partial liver transplants viable for young children
Healio Donor cold ischemia time of more than 9 hours (P=.03) and patient dialysis (P=.01) increased mortality risk. “Our study confirms that there is no longer any increased risk of graft failure and mortality in the very young, regardless of whether or not … |
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Girl who took on transplant rules gets new lungs
MyFox Phoenix New Mexico’s largest social detoxification center is preparing to close its doors after more than 20 years of serving a largely American Indian population. New Mexico’s largest social detoxification center is preparing to close its doors after more … |
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XOMA Initiates Pilot Trial Studying Gevokizumab in Patients With Pyoderma …
PipelineReview.com (press release) BERKELEY, CA, USA I June 13, 2013 I XOMA Corporation (XOMA), a leader in the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies, today announced it has opened enrollment in a pilot study to determine gevokizumab’s potential to treat acute … |
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France: Gay rights campaigner, 18, left brain dead after far-right attack
PinkNews.co.uk “Violently beaten to the ground by a group of activists from the extreme right, manifestly from the group JNR (Jeune Nationaliste Revolutionnaire), left motionless, he was declared this evening to be in a state of brain death at Pitié-Salpêtrière … |
Sarah Murnaghan Undergoes 6 Hour Long Lung Transplant SurgeryTopNews New ZealandSarah Murnaghan Undergoes 6 Hour Long Lung Transplant Surgery Sarah Murnaghan, 10, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. In order to survive, she required double lung transpl…
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Girl’s ‘Adult’ Lung Transplant Surgery a Success
Christian Broadcasting Network The family who waged a national fight to get their 10-year-old daughter, Sarah Murnaghan, on an adult lung transplant list have said Wednesday’s surgery was a success. The child’s aunt, Sharon Ruddock, spoke to Philadelphia news reporters after the … |
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Kitsap Sun … Zazi’s foiled plot to bomb the New York subways and the case of David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American who used his U.S. passport to travel frequently to India, where he allegedly scouted out venues for terror attacks on behalf of the Lashkar … |
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MD Anderson Researcher Reports Idelalisib and Rituximab Produce Responses …
BioNews Texas Idelalisib Dr. Susan M. O’Brien from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston reported that pairing rituximab with the experimental agent idelalisib can improve the management of small lymphocytic lymphoma or treatment- naive … |