NY1Islander Recovers After Receiving Life-Saving Organ DonationNY1NY1 VIDEO: A Staten Island man is expected to make a full recovery after a friend made a life-saving organ donation. Andrew Pannoh gave the right lobe of his liver to Lasannah Gray in Ma…
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‘Presumed consent’ organ donor model most practical
Cape Breton Post Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil’s government is considering a wise but potentially controversial change to organ donation. Moving from a model that involves individuals deciding to donate organs to a system of “presumed consent” on all donations may … |
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‘Presumed consent’ organ donation model most practical
Cape Breton Post Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil’s government is considering a wise but potentially controversial change to organ donation. Moving from a model that involves individuals deciding to donate organs to a system of “presumed consent” on all donations may … |
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Acetaminophen in Rx drugs: For liver’s sake, lower the dose, says FDA
Los Angeles Times Your liver will thank you — acetaminophen overdose has overtaken viral hepatitis infection as the most common cause of acute liver failure. It is now the second most common cause of liver failure requiring transplantation in the United States … |
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Teenagers Live Extraordinary Lives to Make a Difference
Voice of America Another panelist was Jack Andraka, who invented an inexpensive sensor for pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancers when he was 15. “Without Google, Wikipedia, I would have never been able to learn all this … “I hope to see them employed in developing … |
New York Daily NewsEvents to honor Wagner HS softball player who became organ donorNew York Daily NewsParents of Amanda Forsyth, who died in 2006 at age of 16, founded Gift of Life Family Transport Service. Banquet on Wednesday on Staten Island will ra…
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Smoke, dust, perfumes may trigger asthma attacks, say experts
Indian Express A chronic inflammatory disorder of the lungs, Professor Behera said an asthma attack was more likely to happen during the night and morning as lung functions are at their lowest at these times. “Common environment factors which cause allergy include … |
Everolimus in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine TumorsOncLiveIn May 2011, the FDA approved everolimus as a treatment for patients with advanced progressive pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) based on findings from the phase III RADIANT-3 trial. In the piv…
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India: Cancer Incidence Increasing, Mortality High
Medscape “The need for political commitment and action is at the heart of the solution to India’s growing cancer burden,” said Mohandas Mallath, MBBS, MD, lead author of 1 in a series of 3 papers on the cancer burden in India published in The Lancet. “The … |
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FDA Cracks Down on Epidural Corticosteroids
To Your Health Just after publishing Dr. Deborah Pate’s review of epidural corticosteroid injections for sciatica (April 22 newsletter – “Steroids for Sciatica: More Trouble Than They’re Worth), which concluded, based on the available evidence, that epidural steroid … |