Advanced Surgical Associates Joins NCH Medical GroupPR Web (press release)He also completed a fellowship in transplant surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Soper has served as Chief of General Surgery at NCH and has special interests in dialy…
Mom of 32-pound girl found in closet pleads guilty to abuseKCTV Kansas CityThe state said doctors would testify that she was so malnourished that she suffered heart failure and underwent heart transplant surgery earlier this year. She will have long la…
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How brain-death is affecting Jahi McMath’s body
The Morning Journal How brain-death is affecting Jahi McMath’s body. Attorney for the family of Jahi McMath, Christopher Dolan, tries to get Jahi’s mother Nailah Winkfield on the phone as Jahi’s uncle Omari Sealey waits for the press conference to begin at the Law Office … |
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Passages 2013: List of notable deaths
First Coast News Complications during liver transplant surgery, Nov. 12. Lavonne “Pepper” Paire Davis, 88, star of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and an inspiration for the central character played by Geena Davis in the movie A League … |
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FDA Advisory Panel To Review New Heart Failure Drug From Novartis
Forbes A novel acute heart failure drug from Novartis Novartis will be evaluated next month by an FDA advisory committee, perhaps countering a long string of crash-and-burn cardiology drugs. On February 13 the FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory … |
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Morrissey Compares Eating Meat To Pedophilia
Huffington Post The signed book sold for more than $13,500 (£8,000), the proceeds of which were donated to the animal rights group PETA. Related on …. fat for me, oh no. I want to enjoy every moment I can, I don’t want my organs getting messed up with all that stuff … |
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Jahi McMath: Family says brain-dead teen’s body may be too deteriorated to save
San Jose Mercury News “The insult” of brain death “evokes profound physiological and structural derangements in the peripheral organs,” concluded Dr. Martin Gasser and his team in an Annals of Transplantation paper. Blood and other infections are likely, they wrote. |
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Why brain dead means really dead
CNN Both these situations are different from brain death: According to the Uniform Determination of Death Act, an individual is dead when he or she “has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2 … |
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Family Wins in Brain Death Case: Jahi McMath Moves to Care Facility
Guardian Liberty Voice Brain death The family of Jahi McMath has seen a partial win in the brain death case against Children’s Hospital in Oakland, as the 13-year-old has been moved to a care facility. This was the family’s only hope after a judge ruled on Christmas Eve that … |
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Mio Is Bringing Heart Rate Monitoring to Your Wristband
Gizmodo India Mio, which was one of the first companies to make a watch that could accurately measure your heart rate without an additional chest strap, has decided to downsize. They’ve taken the brains of the Mio Alpha, then they shrunk it and got rid of its face. |