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04Feb/14

Red Cross will offer several blood donation opportunities this month – Southeast Missourian

February 4, 2014Organ Donoradmin

Red Cross will offer several blood donation opportunities this month
Southeast Missourian
Type O-negative blood is especially needed. Type O-negative is the universal donor blood type and can potentially be transfused to patients with any blood type, according to a news release from the American Red Cross. Blood donation opportunities are …
DC3 to host blood driveDodge City Daily Globe
MCC part of Red Cross ‘We Challenge U’ blood driveMcCook Daily Gazette
Red Cross says goodbye to longtime blood drive volunteerThe Navasota Examiner
St. Cloud Times –West Hartford News –Fall River Herald News
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04Feb/14

Steve plans year of challenges to highlight importance of organ donation – Newtown Abbey Times

February 4, 2014Organ Donoradmin

Newtown Abbey Times

Steve plans year of challenges to highlight importance of organ donation
Newtown Abbey Times
A Glengormley man whose wife died during childbirth almost five years ago has teamed up with three friends on a quest to raise awareness about the importance of organ donation. Steve Carter’s wife, Denise, passed away after suffering a massive brain …

04Feb/14

Langford mom to be 'Hail Mary' in stem-cell transplant for Hannah Day – Times Colonist

February 4, 2014Other Transplantationadmin

Times Colonist

Langford mom to be ‘Hail Mary’ in stem-cell transplant for Hannah Day
Times Colonist
… exposed to so much radiation from her first cancer in 2012, a rare type called rhabdomyosarcoma, that she could not withstand the blasts that would be needed to put her leukemia in remission to enable the stem-cell transplant, even with a perfect …

04Feb/14

Devic Disease Is Autoimmune Attack on Optic Nerve; An Exercise Alternative? – Valley News

February 4, 2014Monoclonal Anti-CD20 Antibodiesadmin

Devic Disease Is Autoimmune Attack on Optic Nerve; An Exercise Alternative?Valley NewsAntibodies show up in her bloodwork. She is about to undergo two treatments, two weeks apart, of rituximab, hopefully killing the antibodies. What little information …

04Feb/14

Mechanism that helps HIV evade antibodies identified – Business Standard

February 4, 2014Antibodiesadmin

ANINEWSMechanism that helps HIV evade antibodies identifiedBusiness StandardScientists have claimed to have discovered a mechanism involved in stabilizing key HIV proteins and thereby concealing sites where some of the most powerful HIV neutralizing an…

03Feb/14

Church member to help girl in need of new kidney – abc11.com

February 3, 2014Transplant Surgeryadmin

abc11.com

Church member to help girl in need of new kidney
abc11.com
18 transplant surgery. “I want to thank everybody that has helped me,” said Evie. Evie’s appreciation, her courage and spirit, are echoed by her fondest wish. “I want to swim again, and climb trees,” she said. Click here to follow Evie’s progress on …

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03Feb/14

Effects of fluid overload on heart rate variability in chronic kidney disease … – 7thSpace Interactive (press release)

February 3, 2014Organ Failureadmin

Effects of fluid overload on heart rate variability in chronic kidney disease …7thSpace Interactive (press release)Effects of fluid overload on heart rate variability in chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis. While fluid overload (FO) and a…

03Feb/14

Promoting Organ Donation in Russia – KRCB

February 3, 2014Organ Donoradmin

Promoting Organ Donation in Russia
KRCB
Olga Drozdova, a producer for Russia’s most-watched television channel, visited Bodega Bay over the weekend in the course of filming for a documentary about organ donation, something that is not widely done in her homeland. A Russian film crew visited …

03Feb/14

World Cancer Day: Debate on affordable drugs must focus on life or death for … – Firstpost

February 3, 2014Liveradmin

Firstpost

World Cancer Day: Debate on affordable drugs must focus on life or death for …
Firstpost
In contrast, the compulsory licence for Nexavar (sorafenib tosylate, a drug used in the treatment of kidney and liver cancers), was India’s first, granted on the grounds that Bayer had failed to make the drug affordable and available in the required …

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03Feb/14

Motorcycle Expedition to Raise Awareness on TB – The New Indian Express

February 3, 2014Organ Donor, Organs, Other Transplantationadmin

Motorcycle Expedition to Raise Awareness on TB
The New Indian Express
Santhosh Baboo also said that it was the cadets’ 10th such expedition, and over the years, they had raised awareness on various other issues like cancer, female infanticide, HIV, eye donation and organ donation. The expedition, which will be flagged …

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