Scunthorpe Telegraph |
Nurses at Scunthorpe General Hospital to give talk on heart failure
Scunthorpe Telegraph Gill Bromby and Jayne Kelley, who both work at Scunthorpe General Hospital, will be in the hospital’s main boardroom from 10am to 11am on Friday, November 22 talking through the role of the heart failure nursing team, the possible future developments … |
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Leica Biosystems Launches Independently* Qualified Menu of IHC Antibodies …
PR Newswire (press release) Leica Biosystems announces the launch of the fourth Novocastra™ HD menu, focused on hematopathology. Previously launched were the Novocastra HD menus for breast, head & neck and dermatopathology. The new Novocastra HD menu for … |
Yahoo!7 News |
Australia ranks 21st for organ donation
Yahoo!7 News “We are still not in the top 20 nations and have long way to go,” says ShareLife director Professor Allan Glanville, medical director of lung transplantation at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. “Organ donation saves lives, saves money and improves … |
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US killer wants organs donated
Zee News Columbus: A child killer scheduled for execution this week has asked that his organs be donated to his ailing mother and sister. Death row inmate Ronald Phillips’ lawyers say in a letter to the Ohio prisons agency that Phillips would also be willing to … |
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Livers from donors with pre-hospital cardiac arrest considered for transplant
News-Medical.net “A primary concern in using organs from donors who suffered a heart attack is the extra donor warm ischemia time-how long it takes to retrieve an organ from donors with non-beating hearts until blood supply ceases to circulate through the tissues (cold … |
Telemanagement |
20% lung cancer caused by air pollution
Times of India “Rising pollution is related to rising incidence of lung cancer. After Delhi, Hyderabad has reached a stage, where harmful substances in the air are recorded much above normal levels at most of the junctions,” said Dr P N S Reddy, a top pulmonologist … Smoke, smoke everywhere, not a puff to breatheAsian Tribune |
Telegraph.co.uk |
Britons being sold illegal kidneys for surgery in Sri Lanka
Telegraph.co.uk A journalist working for the Times newspaper posed as a relative of a Briton seeking a kidney transplant and claims to have been offered an organ originating either from India or the UK. The agreement took place at a meeting with organ “facilitator … |
Bariatric Surgery Risk Increases With Kidney DiseaseMedscapeMacLaughlin said that one important reason for having bariatric surgery is to help severely obese patients to achieve a weight that allows them to qualify for kidney transplantation. Dr. Kayse…
Madurai lags behind in cadaver organ transplantTimes of IndiaMADURAI: While hundreds of patients seek organs, very few cadaver organ transplants are done in Madurai. Chennai city is way ahead of other places in the state, especially in terms of the num…
UPI.com (blog) |
Authorities investigate death of British man who collapsed after opening …
UPI.com (blog) “His heart stopping caused the death of his brain which caused multiple organ failure,” said coroner Robert Chapman. “We don’t really know what caused his heart to stop. There is a possibility that he had a fatal cardiac arrhythmia — a change in his … Mystery surrounds man’s ‘Pandora’s box’ deathNEWS.com.au |