Coffee 'linked with heart failure'Halifax Evening Courier“Two cups of coffee a day can reduce the risk of heart failure (but five can be bad for you),” the Daily Mail reported today. This seemingly contradictory headline is actually a fair …
Will behind social media campaign to increase organ donationMilton Ulladulla Times… are conducting a social media campaign to raise awareness about organ donation. The A Gracious Gift campaign has seen hundreds of local Facebook users change their pr…
Memphis City Council members talked Tuesday about a change in the area's organ transplant policies, even though they have no say in the matter.
Doctors pull plug on donor liver, let original regrowTimes of IndiaDoctors in the city transplanted part of a donor liver to a two-year-old girl from Oman two months ago. They announced on Tuesday that they will soon stop some of the anti-rejection med…
North Texas man among first to try stem cells for heart failureWFAALarry Rayes, 64, suffers from congestive heart failure, a condition caused by a heart so weak, it can't effectively pump blood through the body. He needs a transplant, but until the…
DALLAS — Six weeks ago, 64-year-old Larry Rayes could only walk a few steps without resting. "I could only walk about 20 yards and I got very lightheaded, very dizzy," Rayes said. Rayes suffers from congestive heart failure, a condition cau…
The News InternationalPakistani prisoner in jail even after completing sentenceThe HinduA septuagenarian Pakistani citizen suffering from diabetes and heart-related ailments has spent two years in Indian jails after he was convicted for inadvertently c…
Nathan Saavedra is home for the holiday and, hopefully, for good. Doctors released the 3-year-old Carpentersville boy from Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago on Tuesday afternoon, 12 days after he underwent a kidney transplant. His mom said the f…
Study Sheds Light On Pregnancy Complications and Overturns Common BeliefScience Daily (press release)Colostrum · Transplant rejection · Gynecologic hemorrhage · Pulmonary embolism. The researchers say that many doctors may be unnec…
Organ donor group reaching out to OakvilliansInsideHalton.comThe group, which includes organ donation recipient Jennifer Malabar, Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn, Ward 2 Councillor Pam Damoff and Julie Pehar, whose family faced the painful decision to donate …