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Antiobiotics for asthma: A Madison doctor decries lack of interest in possible …
Madison.com Drug companies make a lot of money from inhalers, most containing corticosteroids, which can control asthma symptoms but rarely make them go away, Hahn says. “It’s far more profitable to “control” a disease than cure it,” he writes. The bacterial … |
Special blood donation session to be held in SwanseaSouthwales Evening PostA SPECIAL blood donation session has been organised to make up for a shortfall in stocks. The Welsh Blood Service says that during the winter the number of people giving blood r…
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Israeli Doctors Save 7-Year-Old Jordanian Boy
The Jewish Press News of availability of this surgery traveled quickly and within a few days Rambam received a request from the Jordanian parents of “Y,” “Please help us by doing a kidney transplantation on our son.” A few days ago it happened. The little boy, “Y … |
The GuardianNew hepatitis C drugs must be affordable worldwide, say campaignersThe GuardianThere are 185 million people in the world chronically infected with hepatitis C virus, which attacks the liver and can cause liver cancer and cirrhosis. Around 3…
Eilabun family donate organs of baby son who dies suddenlyJerusalem PostWhen a 14-month-old boy from Kafr Eilabun in the Galilee suffered lower-brain death suddenly due to intercranial pressure this week, after an operation at Dana Hospital at Tel Aviv…
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Source: Jay Carney to Resign in Spring; CNN Next Stop for Press Secretary?
Mediaite The lone exception is Scott McClellan (Bush 43, 2003-2006), who apparently declined to forego personality-transplant surgery and therefore wasn’t seriously considered by any of the aforementioned networks. Jay Carney is confrontational. His critics … |
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Chronic kidney disease risk factors found
Taipei Times People with hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia are three times more likely than those without to develop pre-end-stage-renal disease (ESRD) — in which kidneys do not function — the Health Promotion Administration said. A 2007 survey on … |
Daily MailMother of conjoined twins born in India has yet to meet her babiesDaily MailDr Shikha Malik, who delivered the babies and is helping the family, said they have two heads, two necks, two spines and two separate oesophaguses and trachea – but t…
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House Call: Heart Failure University
WSIL TV CARTERVILLE — Heart disease is the number one killer in this country. Later this month, Southern Illinois Health Care is holding a free one day class called Heart Failure University. It’s for patients with congestive heart failure and their families … |
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British TV chef Dickson Wright of ‘Two Fat Ladies’ dies at 66
Daily News & Analysis Paterson died of lung cancer in 1999 at the age of 71. London-born Dickson Wright started out as a barrister in London but her career in law was brought to “an abrupt end” by her battle with alcohol. Her agency said her birthday this June would have … |