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Book Review: David & James Livingston’s ‘Blood over Water’ — Blues Brothers
row2k.com Because of how much we put into it[…]. I couldn’t choose not to care. If you stop caring where does it end? A smile becomes just teeth. Children? — a biological inevitability. Love? — a release of hormones in the brain. Death? — the balancing of … |
At Increased Cost, Robotic Partial Nephrectomy Improves Kidney Cancer …Cancer NetworkThe use of robotic partial nephrectomy to remove kidney cancer tumors has increased in recent years, becoming more commonly used than open or laparoscopic partial ne…
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Robotic Cancer Surgery Better But Costlier
dailyRx Khurshid R. Ghani, MD, of Vattikuti Urology Institute and lead author of the study, said of robotic assisted surgery, “It is a safe operation that has rapidly replaced LPN as the most common minimally invasive approach for partial nephrectomy. It has … |
UAB surgeon named to new position promoting diversity, combating health …The Birmingham News – al.comYoung, who joined UAB in 1997, is director of the pancreas transplant program and director of pediatric renal transplantation. His research focuses o…
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DEALING WITH THE FRAGILITY OF LIFE…
Ceylon Daily News If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That’s how fragile our consciousness is, said Robin Gibb of the famous Bee Gees. Yet the fragility of life … |
Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Invited to Coffee House ConversationWilloughby Today (blog)We invite patients who have been diagnosed with Stage 3, 4 or 5 (dialysis) chronic kidney disease to come have breakfast and a conversation with health care prof…
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It’s Time to Control Asthma – News Track India
Newstrack India Asthma (AZ-ma) is a serious and often life-threatening chronic lung disease very much prevalent in all countries. It is a disease that affects the airways that carry air to and from your lungs. Swelling or inflation of airways makes it very sensitive … |
Gene therapy trials for heart failure launchedBioNewsGene therapy will be used to treat heart failure for the first time in the UK, in clinical trials being launched by the British Heart Foundation. The two trials will involve injecting copies of a hea…
Party on the Parkway benefiting the North Suburban YMCAChicago TribuneThe Party will be held tomorrow Wednesday, May 8, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., says the Y, which will receive 100% of the proceeds from the silent auction and a suggested charitable donati…
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Helping Kids With Severe Respiratory Failure Survive Until Lung Transplantation
RedOrbit Adults with end-stage respiratory failure and pulmonary hypertension requiring ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) have been “bridged” toward lung transplantation with novel lung assist devices such as the Novalung. This and related devices … |