India WestFour Indian Americans Receive Soros Fellowships for New AmericansIndia WestIn graduate school, Chhabra is creating a chip model of the liver. The model will replicate the pathophysiology of human livers, thereby enabling a noninvasive study o…
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Five–year–old baseball signee works to raise awareness for cancer research
TCU 360 Since the relapse, Micah has received five different chemotherapies, an unsuccessful stem cell transplant, and 17 days of radiation. Presently, Micah is undergoing another chemotherapy treatment and has just finished his fifth round. Micah’s treatments … |
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Saint Luke’s Hospital Welcomes Mario F. Rubin, M.D., as Chief of Nephrology …
PR Web (press release) Dr. Rubin joins Christie W. Gooden, M.D., surgical director of kidney transplantation, who completed her surgical/transplantation fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Lee S. Cummings, M.D., who completed his surgical … Northwestern Medicine Celebrates 50 Years Performing Life-saving Organ …HealthCanal.com |
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Mosquito Matchmaker: An Inside (Itchy) Look at Force-Mating Mosquitoes
Gizmodo India “I don’t do it because I love mosquitoes,” says Andolina. Her work creates a ready supply of parasites. She provides these to collaborators in Paris and Singapore, who are trying to develop new drugs that target malarial parasites holding out in a … |
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TomTom Squeezes a Heart Rate Monitor Into Its GPS Watches
Gizmodo India When we reviewed the TomTom Runner GPS watch last year, we pointed out that if you wanted to monitor your heart rate, you’d need to buy an extra accessory. But for athletes looking to seriously train their bodies, metrics on how fast or far they ran … |
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Britney Haynes Baby Tilly Still Cancer Free and Doing Great!
BigBrotherAccess.com I know it isn’t something you want to think about constantly and I get that. But it is also where you find the biggest heroes in the smallest packages. Our buddy Brody is one such story! He came through his stem cell transplant at St Jude’s last week … |
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Teacher saves pupil’s life with incredible gift of his own kidney
Horseed Media Despite not being related to Alya blood tests confirmed Ray was a match, leading to the successful transplant surgery at Great Ormond Street in February. Both Alya and Ray are now recovering well and are expected to return to school after the Easter break. |
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Manners Hero of the Week: Teacher Donates a Kidney to a 5-Year-Old She Just …
Parade In addition to saving Katelynn’s life, Cindy learned that her selfless act exposed a medical condition of her own—which was helped by the transplant surgery. Talk about the gift that gives back. Every week, Steven Petrow, the author of five etiquette … |
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Dietary Supplement Adverse Event Reports Increase
Natural Products INSIDER They will be joined by Victor Navarro, M.D., chairman of the Division of Hepatology and medical director of Liver Transplantation at the Einstein Healthcare Network. …. For more information on this topic, check out INSIDER’s previous Digital Summit … |
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Patents, biosimilars and trademarks – another triangle?
IAM (registration) (blog) Although Roche was taking steps to use Emcure Pharmaceuticals in India “to produce its innovative biologics in India” and to reduce the price for cancer drugs trastuzumab (Herceptin) and rituximab (MabThera), in a surprising but strategic move, Roche … |