Hearts meant for transplants end up in trash
Thousands of people die of end-stage heart disease in the country every year. Yet, 250 hearts donated by the deceased in Tamil Nadu were discarded without being transplanted, government data shows.
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ASE echo project returns to rural India, this time training local doctors – TheHeart.Org
ASE echo project returns to rural India, this time training local doctorsTheHeart.OrgSirsa, India and New York, NY – Last year, New York physician Dr Partho Sengupta (Mount Sinai Medical School) led a team of sonographers and cardiologists to a remote …
Atrial fibrillation increases risk of kidney failure in chronic kidney disease … – NephrologyNews.com
Atrial fibrillation increases risk of kidney failure in chronic kidney disease …NephrologyNews.comThe risk of kidney failure is greater for people with chronic kidney disease who also have atrial fibrillation, one of the most common forms of irregula…
How The U.S. Can Attract Biotech Firms By Imitating China
This piece was written by Ron Cohen, the chief executive of Acorda Therapeutics. Cohen founded Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. in 1995. Before that, he was an officer at Advanced Tissue Sciences,a pioneering biotech in the growth of human organ tissues for transplant. He received his M.D. from the Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the …
Hearts meant for transplants end up in trash – Times of India
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Hearts meant for transplants end up in trash
Times of India In India, only Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Kochi and Visakhapatnam have done heart transplants. Many cities like Mumbai have not done a heart transplant in several years simply because they don’t have a programme to retrieve organs from the … |
Irregular heart beat elevates risk of kidney failure
( University of California – San Francisco ) Many people who suffer from chronic kidney disease progressively lose their kidney function over time and eventually develop a condition called end-stage renal disease — the complete failure of the kidneys …
Optimizing the Quality and Accuracy of Biopharmaceutical Analysis and … – Genetic Engineering News (press release)
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Optimizing the Quality and Accuracy of Biopharmaceutical Analysis and …
Genetic Engineering News (press release) He will present rituximab and bevacizumab glycan profile data generated with GlykoPrep-plus application on Agilent’s AssayMAP Bravo automated liquid handler. ProZyme and Agilent are collaborating to develop automated, high-precision workflows for … |
Fecal Transplants: A Clinical Trial Confirms How Well They Work
A little more than a year ago, I wrote a piece in Scientific American about fecal transplants — replacing the stool in someone’s colon with stool donated by someone else — as a treatment for the pernicious, recurrent diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile infection.
Critically ill flu patients saved with artificial lung technology treatment – Medical Xpress
Critically ill flu patients saved with artificial lung technology treatmentMedical XpressECLS systems are normally used at the hospital as a bridge to lung transplantation but increasingly, the hospital is using ECLS on patients where the usual breathi…
Blood donation rally reaches city – Times of India
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