IBNLiveAn aspirin a day keeps cancer at bay, studies suggestIBNLiveStudying more than 14,000 women about long-term aspirin use, experts from the New York University School of Medicine compared those who went on to develop lung cancer to those who staye…
Zee News`Calcium sponge` to tackle diastolic heart failureZee News`Calcium sponge` to tackle diastolic heart failure London: Researchers have used molecular genetic engineering to optimize heart performance in models of diastolic heart failure by creat…
ITV NewsThe facts and figures and myths and legends of organ donationITV NewsThere are 7,500 people waiting for an organ transplant across the UK, yet while 90% of people believe donating an organ is the right thing to do – only 30% are signed up to th…
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Modified ‘smallpox vaccine’ virus triples liver cancer survival time
Newstrack India London, February 11(ANI): The virus used in the vaccine that helped eradicate smallpox is offering new hope to liver cancer patients. Researchers have found that a genetically engineered version of the vaccinia virus tripled the average survival time … |
Work stress not linked to cancers, say researchersNewstrack IndiaLondon, Feb 11 (IANS) Scientists have delinked work-related stress from development of colorectal, lung, breast or prostate cancers. Around 90 percent of cancers are linked to environment…
Mandela looking comfortable: PresidencyNewstrack IndiaMandela, who was hospitalised for almost three weeks late last year, returned to his Johannesburg home Dec 26 after undergoing a surgical operation to remove gallstones and treatment of a recurring …
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Sometimes the divorce is nastier than the marriage
Daily News & Analysis Then there’s the 2009 story of another US doctor who donated a kidney to his wife, thereby saving her life. When their marriage ended, Richard Batista demanded the return of his organ or $1.5 millionin compensation, but his case was thrown out by a … |
After critical head injury, crane operator makes remarkable recoveryMilwaukee Journal SentinelWhen he arrived at Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, his pupils were fixed and dilated, a sign that he was progressing toward brain death, said Thomas Was…
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Thank God for Facebook: When Platforms Proselytize
MIT Technology Review Last May Facebook started letting users add organ-donation status to their Facebook “timelines,” telling friends and family of their status, and directing people who aren’t signed up to the official organ donor registries. Facebook’s effort garnered … |
Firefighter Sterling Lytle remembered at organ donation eventTucson News NowThe family of a Nogales firefighter killed in a hit and run accident last June, honored his memory at an organ donation event held in Tucson on Sunday afternoon. The family of …