Blood donation camp held at IIUThe News InternationalThe Pakistan Thalassaemia Welfare Society held a blood donation camp for thalassaemia patients at the women's campus of the International Islamic University (IIU) The camp was organised in collab…
The HinduKidney, the amazing organThe HinduWith frequent rackets and malpractices involving kidney donation which have become common, in spite of the strict enforcement of rules, the motivation of brain-death patients for organ donation is the only alt…
CTV.caOrgan donation: is tokenism costing lives?The HinduSurely, an Organ Donor Database will help make available more organs for donation. Right? In this case, wrong. Organ donation has become a good cause that organisations and individual celebrities…
Kidney disease strikes at young ageDeccan ChronicleChronic kidney disease strikes Indians at a younger age. The mean age for chronic kidney disease or CKD in India is 50 years, even though the disease can strike at 35. In India, CKD strikes at a younge…
UCLA seeking Wounded Warriors with severe facial injuries for clinical trialExaminer.comThe patient must agree to follow a drug schedule to prevent transplant rejection and attend all appointments at the transplant center. Patients who meet the criteri…
Safe to Switch Thiopurines in IBD PatientsMedPage TodayThis study found that a majority of patients with inflammatory bowel disease who are unable to tolerate azathioprine may be able to take the related drug mercaptopurine safely. Note that a factor t…
UT Bank and Happy FM organises blood donationBusinessGhanaUT Bank and Happy fm in collaboration with the Global Media Alliance, at the weekend organised a health screening and blood donation exercise in Accra to encourage people to donate blood to save…
Combo Tx Better in HIV-Related LymphomaMedPage TodayAdding the monoclonal antibody rituximab (Rituxan) to chemotherapy improves outcomes for HIV patients diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Note that, on the other hand, patients with HIV-associa…
TopNews United States2nd Heart Transplant Rejection Claims Teenager's LifeTopNews United StatesHe keeps questioning to God that why they have taken his child away. Shaun's mother Sally Devers said that her whole world has broken, but she would …
VetPracticeNews.comCyclosporine Therapy in Veterinary DermatologyVetPracticeNews.comBy Jon D. Plant, DVM Treating canine and feline dermatoses with cyclosporine has been the subject of great interest in recent years. 1 Many studies have focused on cani…