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CRT shown highly cost effective in mild heart failure
Family Practice News Digital Network DALLAS – Cardiac resynchronization therapy demonstrated a robust cost-effectiveness of $18,275 per quality-adjusted life-year gained in an analysis from the landmark REVERSE trial. REVERSE (Resynchronization Reverses Remodeling in Systolic Left … |
Science Codex |
Preventing cell death from infection: Scientists demonstrate method to find …
Science Codex LA JOLLA, CA—January 16, 2014—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have demonstrated the power of a new drug discovery technique, which allows them to find—relatively quickly and cheaply—antibodies that have a desired effect on cells. |
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PG man BC’s oldest organ donor
Prince George Citizen When the topic of her deceased husband’s possible organ donation was broached earlier this month, Alice Graham didn’t think it would be possible. She was just beginning to grieve the death of her husband Bob, who died on Jan. 6 following a fall two … |
Los Angeles TimesThe Source: Brain Death – Science, Ethics & EmotionTexas Public RadioMarlise Munoz was a 33-year-old paramedic from Fort Worth who was 14 weeks pregnant when a pulmonary embolism left her brain dead in November of last year. Jahi M…
Vorinostat plus standard immunoprophylaxis reduced GVHD after allogeneic …HealioThe addition of vorinostat to standard immunoprophylaxis reduced the incidence of graft-versus-host disease in patients with hematologic malignancies who underwent relate…
AbbVie Advances with Cancer Candidate – Analyst BlogNASDAQAbbVie has several pipeline-related events lined up this year including data on multiple sclerosis candidate, daclizumab from the DECIDE study in mid-14 and data on Elagolix from one of the two …
Financial Express |
Looking inside India’s diplomacy debacle
gulfnews.com At the heart of the matter was America’s argument that the prosecution of Khobragade was a straightforward matter of applying the rule of law to all those residing in its territory. In India, the perception of both state and society that the arrest … US, India meet to repair tiesBayoubuzz |
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Hospitals should help transplant of organs: AIIMS Director
Business Standard It should be made mandatory for hospitals to notify the cases of brain dead patients at the earliest as it could help increase cadaver organ donation, said Director of AIIMS M C Mishra today. “Experts should be given the responsibility to intimate … |
Yahoo Sports (blog) |
Texas high school football coach undergoing transplant surgery to save wife’s life
Yahoo Sports (blog) Humble (Texas) High head football coach Charles West calls his wife “my better half,” and as soon as doctors give the high school sweethearts the go-ahead on a potentially life-saving transplant surgery, there will be even more meaning behind that … |
Times of India |
Microparticles may reduce heart attack damage
Times of India When biodegradable microparticles were injected after a heart attack, the size of the heart lesion was reduced by 50 per cent and the heart could pump significantly more blood, said a path-breaking research. “The inflammatory damage is reduced to a … |