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Immune system ‘powerless to stop skin cancer’
CANOE Previous work from the team at King’s College London showed that while patients with melanoma produced antibodies that could attack tumour cells, the immune system often seemed powerless to stop the cancer progressing. But, they say their latest … |
Experts discuss medical advancesTimes of IndiaProf Sudershan Bhatia (Iowa, US) delivered a talk on treatment of lung cancer. Dr Lakshmi Santanam (St Louis, US) and Dr Nand Relan ( Stony Brooks, NY, US) discussed the role of PET/CT in radiation therapy …
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23-yr-old’s liver, kidneys save three patients
Times of India Doctors at the Global Hospitals, where Vaidyalingam was brought from Salem, said they used the liver on one of their patients kept on the waitlist and almost simultaneously, another patient in the hospital underwent a kidney transplant. “Both of them … |
Forum focuses on congestive heart failureLakenewsonline.comTopics will include an overview of heart failure, how to manage it through diet and exercise, and what patients should expect if they are hospitalized. The forum will be presented by Jo Fogarty…
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Newly passed transplantation law will curb illegal organ trade: SIUT’s Dr Rizvi
The Express Tribune The new law ensures that organ donation of Pakistani citizens will not be permissible to citizens of other countries, she added. In the last decade, commercial buying and selling of organs threw Pakistan into the infamous kidney trade. As India worked … |
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Get your head around the brain museum
Times of India The donor’s details are kept confidential. We try to persuade family members to donate the brain or body if we find the patient may not survive. If the family agrees to donate the brain, we remove the organ during the autopsy, clean the body, pack it … |
22 hospitals may get organ retrieval permitTimes of IndiaHospitals registered as non-transplant organ retrieval centres are permitted to certify brain death and thereafter carry out organ retrieval. But they are not permitted to perform transplant of h…
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Chavez receiving chemotherapy, still battling for life: Cuban vice-president
India Today ABC said without specifying its source that Chavez’s cancer had spread to a lung. It said he had been moved to an island compound in the Caribbean. Chavez’s son-in-law, Science Minister Jorge Arreaza, said on state TV that Chavez continues “to fight … |
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Underreported Struggles #71 February 2013
Infoshop News India’s central government walked away from its position on the need to obtain consent from Indigenous peoples and forest dwellers before handing their lands over to industry. The government simply announced that major “linear projects” such as … |
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Global inhibition of all Notch signals would not be safe after bone marrow …
News-Medical.net “This suggests that global inhibition of all Notch signals would not be safe after bone marrow transplantation,” Maillard said. The researchers zoomed in closer. Notch signals are mediated by the interaction between five ligands and four receptors on … |