Protected oaks produce toxic mushroomsThe AgeDeath cap mushrooms are filled with the poison amatoxin, which can attack enzymes involved in producing DNA and trigger liver failure. Two people – a 52-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man, both Chinese nat…
Sci-Tech TodayOrgan donorStratford StarConsider signing up to be an organ donor. Notify the motor vehicle department and get a new driver's license with the small heart symbol of the organ donor on it. Tell family so they know. Talk about it to oth…
New stroke procedures in Contra Costa County aim to provide speedier treatmentOakland Tribune"Brain death occurs very rapidly, in the first few hours after a stroke takes place." In the past, emergency crews only sporadically gave hospitals a…
Home monitoring helps manage heart failureUPI.com4 (UPI) — Heart failure needs to be closely tracked and home-monitoring interventions may be especially useful, US researchers say. Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, director of the Ahmanson-University of Californi…
The AgeAlert on toxic mushrooms after liver-failure deathsThe AgeThey died from suspected liver failure in Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on Tuesday night. A hospital spokesman said another person from the group was receiving treatment. ACT …
The GuardianNick Cannon's 'Mild Kidney Failure': What Is It?Huffington Post#mybraveman" However, the term "mild kidney failure" doesn't exist in medical terminology; rather, Carey might have meant to say Cannon has a cond…
Goldman Sachs (GS) Analysts Reiterate a "Buy" Rating on Alexion …LocalizedUSA… development and commercialization of therapeutic products aimed at treating patients with severe and life-threatening disease states, including those in the th…
Zolinza Tallies Mixed Results In Relapsed And Refractory Multiple Myeloma …The Myeloma BeaconAll patients had previously received Velcade, 85 percent thalidomide, 71 percent Revlimid, 4 percent pomalidomide, and 74 percent a stem cell transplant. As …
Bourke uses her story to encourage organ donationMount Shasta HeraldIn California, two licensed physicians must make the diagnosis of brain death before the potential donor's family is consulted regarding donation. Should you be in the position to …
SIDE STREETS: Sol's was lost, but historic organ donation arrangedColorado Springs GazetteThat facade, captured in a 1953 Myron Wood photo and mostly obscured for decades by Virginia creeper vines, might yet be saved in a sort of historic organ don…