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Organ donation after cardiac death
CBC.ca Their daughter had always wanted to donate her organs, but she didn’t meet the brain death criteria required for donation. Her Ottawa family was determined to fulfill her final wish. In 2006, she became the first Canadian in nearly four decades to … |
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GENOMICS/BONE MARROW DONATION: Next-gen DNA sequencing enables …
BioOptics World CHOP will offer HLA typing as a service to medical and academic centers. The test’s most significant short-range impact may be in typing donors in bone marrow/stem cell registries. Because of the high cost of performing high-resolution HLA typing under … |
Indian ExpressTablighi Jamaat Ameer dies, thousands turn up for his funeral procession at …Indian ExpressSources said he was suffering from a liver ailment and also had trouble with his kidneys. Under his leadership, and with the guidance of a counci…
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No easy fix to replace Braves’ Medlen, Beachy
KSPR Ligament transplant surgery typically keeps pitchers out for 12 to 14 months, but a second a comeback has tougher odds and requires a longer recovery. After seeing Andrews with Medlen on Monday in Gulf Breeze, Fla., Beachy decided to go to Los Angeles … |
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An Alarming Wake-Up Call From A Brand New Report On Climate Change
Businessinsider India The evidence linking human activities to climate change is as strong as the data supporting the idea that smoking causes lung cancer, a new report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) warned on Tuesday. “Many people do … |
DES bested BMS in reducing clinical restenosis in chronic kidney diseaseHealioIschemia-driven target vessel revascularization was significantly lower in vessels treated with drug-eluting stents than those treated with bare-metal stents in a cohort of p…
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Family of baby awaiting heart transplant urge organ donor guidelines change
ITV News NHS Blood and Transplant said families who lose a child in the first two months of their life “often ask about organ donation in hope that some good for others can come out of such sadness”. “Unfortunately, this is something we are not able to … |
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Vitamin D may be risk factor in dog’s heart failure
Cornell Chronicle Extensive evidence suggests that vitamin D plays a role in cardiovascular health for people. Now, the first study on vitamin D status and congestive heart failure in dogs suggests the same: Vitamin D deficiency may be a risk factor for congestive heart … |
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MicroRNA Implicated In Heart Failure Can Be Blocked, Researchers Say
BioResearch Online (press release) A team of cardiovascular researchers have identified a microRNA which plays a crucial role in the onset and progression of heart failure. The researchers’ findings were published online in the journal Nature. Researchers from the Cardiovascular … |
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Jahi McMath–accepting her life
RenewAmerica To make it legal, in 1968, a committee at Harvard concocted the first set of “brain death” criteria (not based on scientific investigation) known as the Harvard Criteria. During the next 10 years, 30 disparate sets of criteria were published, each one … |