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Organ donor champion, WVU fan dies of cancer
Charleston Gazette She was 40. McPherson became a champion of organ donation and visited West Virginia several times following her liver transplant from Taitlyn Hughes. The 12-year-old Martinsburg girl died of a brain hemorrhage, but her liver saved McPherson’s life. |
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Wiping out Hepatitis C
WWSB ABC 7 “After going through all of this painful process of treatment, the odds were basically against them that they would not respond,” Nizar Zein, MD, Chief of Hepatology and Medical Director of Liver Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic, told Ivanhoe. Now … |
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Why GlaxoSmithKline plc’s Investment Plans Should Thrust Earnings Skywards
The Motley Fool UK Indeed, the pharma giant announced recently that its MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic drug for the treatment of lung cancer had failed Phase III testing at both the first and second co-primary endpoints. The trial for the revolutionary drug … The company is … |
LiveScience.comMan Develops Rare Reaction to Spider BiteLiveScience.comDoctors treated the patient with high doses of oral corticosteroids to reduce inflammation, and his condition rapidly improved. In five days, the rash disappeared and the man fully …
Medical debate over defining death has implications for organ donorsCBC.caThere is another layer of complication: three Canadian provinces – Manitoba, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan – do not accept cardiac death as the standard; they rely on brain deat…
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UTSW Cardiologists ID New Symptom of Advanced Heart Failure
D Healthcare Daily Shortness of breath while bending over is a likely symptom of advanced heart failure that could indicate the condition is progressing, UT Southwestern cardiologists found. They named the easily detectable symptom “bendopnea” and say it points to the … |
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Delhi to host ‘The Growth Net 2014’ conclave
Business Standard … Secretary General, Asia Cooperation Dialogue (Thailand); Ronnie Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Properties (Hong Kong); Herbert Oberhaensli, Vice President-Economic and International Relations, Nestle (Switzerland); Dilma Pema, President and Director … Countdown begins for ‘The Growth Net 2014’; global thinkers to attendIndia Education Diary |
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International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Unveils Full Speaker List
PR Web (press release) Dr. Stevenson, who is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will speak at this year’s event on the subject of “Trimming Heart Transplantation in the VAD Era.” Stevenson’s investigative focus is on the elucidation of principles for the … |
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International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Unveils Full Speaker List
DigitalJournal.com Dr. Stevenson, who is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will speak at this year’s event on the subject of “Trimming Heart Transplantation in the VAD Era.” Stevenson’s investigative focus is on the elucidation of principles for the … |
St. Lucie County Community Calendar, updated March 21TCPalmTreasure Coast Chapter of the American Guild of Organists: Concert on the historic Aeolian Organ. 4 p.m. March 30. First United Methodist Church of Fort Pierce, 616 Orange Ave., ….. Polish Am…