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Lung regeneration comes closer to reality
Newstrack India University of Vermont Professor of Medicine Daniel Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., and his team’s work focuses on lung tissue bioengineering, which involves the use of a scaffold – or framework – of lungs from human cadavers to engineer new lungs for patients with … |
New organ donation committee set up in ChinaWantChinaTimesJointly founded by the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) and the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), the new committee is the result of a merger of the Organ Transplant Commi…
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Heart recipient of 25 years: ‘I’ve beat the odds’
MassLive.com According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the 10-year survival rate for heart transplant surgery is about 56 percent. They often face post-surgical complications including primary graft dysfunction, which occurs when the new donor heart … |
Daily News & Analysis |
Are you unable to exercise?
Daily News & Analysis The most common cause is cardio respiratory disorder either due to a heart or lung problem. Treatment “The first step is to make a diagnosis of whether the cause is related to diabetes, thyroid problem, obesity, heat artery blockages, metabolic … |
Medical Council of India is against corpse cuttingDeccan ChronicleEarlier, undergraduate biology students at certain universities in the United States could dissect human cadavers donated as anatomical gifts, wile many individuals were designating thei…
New York Daily News |
As Robinson Cano asks Mariners for help, it’s like Alex Rodriguez in Texas all …
New York Daily News Baseball lost one of its true pioneers on Thursday when Dr. Frank Jobe — the longtime L.A. Dodgers orthopedist who invented “Tommy John” tendon transplant surgery that saved hundreds of pitchers’ careers — died at age 88. When Dodgers lefty Tommy … |
Truthdig |
India’s Diesel Fumes Fuel Glacier Melt
Truthdig Air pollution, particularly related to diesel-fuelled vehicles that jam Kolkata’s roads, is also linked to the city’s unusually high levels of lung cancer. Meanwhile the government’s own Central Pollution Control Board gives Kolkata and New Delhi the … |
The Northern Echo |
Gardener’s cycling and music marathon to raise funds for girl with rare cancer
The Northern Echo Gaby’s mother, Vicki, said they would learn this week if the treatment had been successful and transplant surgery could go ahead. Ms Alderson, a former pupil of Humersknott Academy, in Darlington, said: “Unfortunately, Gaby hasn’t either been well … |
Suffolk Free Press |
Heart failure led to sudden death of woman, aged 30
Suffolk Free Press An otherwise healthy woman died suddenly after suffering chronic heart failure, an inquest heard. Marceline Njokom-Fongwa, from Lucas Road in Sudbury, died at her home on April 18. Last Thursday’s hearing into Mrs Njokom-Fongwa’s death heard that the … |
Corticosteroid prescribing in palliative care settings: a retrospective …7thSpace Interactive (press release)Corticosteroids are a potent group of medicines, with many adverse effects, that are widely prescribed in palliative care for both specific a…