Kidney crusader shares his taleThe New Indian ExpressBesides helping people find a donor, the foundation had a bigger function – counselling families to have their loved ones donate their kidneys or give up their cadaver organs, in case of brain death….
The New Indian ExpressBasavatarakam Centre to host Oncology meetThe New Indian ExpressThe conference will discuss various advances in Gynaec, lung, head and neck, genitourinary (GU) and gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. Balakrishna explained around 100 re…
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Footballer Fabrice Muamba survived cardiac arrest but, a new book argues, too …
Daily News & Analysis Later, when ventilators were developed that could temporarily maintain a heartbeat after irreversible brain damage, the concept of brain death was developed. Now, though, Parnia believes such definitions are outdated and we can no longer talk about the … |
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Beacon NewsFlashes – March 11, 2013
The Myeloma Beacon Treanda May Enhance Response To Stem Cell Transplant In Myeloma Patients – Results from a Phase 1 clinical trial demonstrate the safety of adding Treanda (bendamustine) to melphalan (Alkeran) as high-dose therapy prior to stem cell transplantation. |
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Largely Dismissed Heart Failure Drug May Help Solve Costly Problem for …
Science Daily (press release) 11, 2013 — The heart failure drug digoxin, used less and less since it “failed” in its 1997 clinical trial, may do something no drug has achieved since: reduce by 34 percent the chances that heart failure patients will be admitted to the hospital … A Cheap, Old Heart Drug May Help Elderly Heart Failure PatientsU.S. News & World Report |
Reminiscing the good old daysThe New Indian Express*The city has a beautiful climate throughout the year which you would not get anywhere else in India. *Pollution is minimum compared to … *Allergies especially for those with lung problems like asthm…
FDA to regulate stem cell treatmentPhilippine Information AgencyAside from the regulation on the sources of raw materials, Go said credentials of the operators will be scrutinized as the number of stem-cell therapies are growing, but most are at experi…
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Heart diseases not a modern ill, mummies show
Times of India Professor Randall Thompson, of Saint Luke’s Heart Institute in Kansas City, said, “The fact that we found similar levels of atherosclerosis in all of the different cultures we studied, all of whom had very different lifestyles and diets, suggests that … Heart attacks and strokes may be as old as 4000 yearsZee News Artery blocks not so modernCalcutta Telegraph |
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Antibiotics; If we don’t stop handing out antibiotics like sweets, even a cut …
Daily Mail British doctors say there are two particularly pressing dangers: the lung disease tuberculosis and the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea. Last month … This phenomenon was first observed in a Swedish patient of Indian origin in 2008. He was … |
Screening for BNP & Targeted Care Reduce Heart Failure in At-Risk PatientsBusiness Wire (press release)The five-year STOP-HF study enrolled asymptomatic patients over 40 years of age with risk factors for heart failure and randomized them into inte…