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How Many Steps Does it Take to Avoid a Heart Attack? Researchers Find Out
TIME (blog) In new research published in the journal Lancet, scientists report that among people with early signs of pre-diabetes, taking an extra 2,000 steps a day–the equivalent of 20 minutes of moderate-paced walking–helped them lower their chances of heart … New method to keep track of heart risksANINEWS |
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Organ donor, 11, provides inspiration to sign up during holidays
Fox 59 They hope you’ll take the holidays to consider organ donation and talk to your family about it. “I never thought about it. I never thought that I’d have to say I want my son to be an organ donor,” Worthington said. For more information on organ … IU Health to promote organ donation at Rose BowlWISH Infant Organ Donor HonoredKOLO Myrtle Beach organ donor to be honored in Rose ParadeWPDE WTVQ –ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) –Fresno Bee all 22 news articles » |
MedscapeIs Obinutuzumab the Drug to Watch in CLL?MedscapeMaintenance therapy in follicular lymphoma — for example, the PRIMA study and the SAKK study, in which different durations of continuous rituximab were applied — there were some updates of thes…
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Micro-Cap Medtech with Explosive Upside Potential: Brian Marckx
CountingPips BM: BioLife makes biopreservation media for cells, tissues and organs. These solutions are … TLSR: Are the BioLife media products also used to preserve organs harvested for donation and transplantation? BM: They can be, …. It’s in some small … |
Technology helping those waiting for heart transplantCTV NewsTechnology is revolutionizing organ transplant surgery and a southwestern Ontario woman is living proof. Suzana De Sousa was among the first patients at the London Health Sciences Centre to g…
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Researchers generate kidney tubular cells from stem cells
Medical Xpress Chronic kidney disease is a major global public health problem, and when patients progress to kidney failure, their treatment options are limited to dialysis and kidney transplantation. Regenerative medicine—which involves rebuilding or repairing … |
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‘Organ donor becomes immortal’
Times of India Organ donation makes people immortal.” Doctors who worked to convince Rakesh said one must have a big heart to go ahead for this. “Rakesh has proved how a simple gesture can help many people add a few more years to their life,” said one of the doctors … |
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News From Home
Arizona Daily Star Scott Walker has signed a bill making it harder to force public schools to drop American Indian nicknames. The Republican bill … “It is important to point out that Kansas has a long history of oil production with very few reported incidents of any … |
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UAB launches paired exchange and incompatible kidney transplant program
UAB News Jayme Locke, M.D., Reynolds’ surgeon and the assistant professor of Surgery and Abdominal Transplant Surgery in the School of Medicine, says incompatible transplantation is an important innovation. “Most programs are participating in some sort of … |
Barron’s (blog)AbbVie: No Upside For Hep-C, Little Upside For Stock, Morgan Stanley SaysBarron’s (blog)Elotuzumab, for instance, is partnered with Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), while Daclizumab is being developed with Biogen Idex (BIIB). Shares of AbbVie…