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Fewer “Brain Deaths” and Donor Organs
dailyRx The most dramatic decline in doctors’ rulings of brain death occurred among people with traumatic brain injury. But also included, as examples, among those declared brain dead were persons who had bleeding in the brain or a lack of oxygen to the brain … |
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Fewer ‘Brain Dead’ Diagnoses After Brain Injuries May Explain Stagnant Organ …
Medical Daily Researchers involved with the study point out that donation after neurologic death (i.e. brain death) accounts for half of kidney transplants, three-quarters of liver transplants, 90 percent of lung and pancreas transplants, and all heart and small … |
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Brain death on the decline in Canada: study
The Globe and Mail From 2002 to 2012, the proportion of brain-injured patients in southern Alberta who deteriorated to neurologic death (brain death) declined from 8.1 per cent to 4.2 per cent – a 50-per-cent reduction, noted study author Dr. Andreas Kramer, a clinical … Brain death decline may explain fall in organ donationsCBC.ca Brain death rates dropToronto Star Fewer ‘brain dead’ patients means drop in organ donationsCanada.com Medical Daily –MedPage Today all 9 news articles » |
Novartis Hosts Competition to Create Novel Mobile Solutions for Heart Failure …mHealthNewsNovartis today announced the winners of its Mobile Health (mHealth) Challenge, a competition for developers and mobile technology start-ups to participate in cr…
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13-year-old recovering nicely after kidney transplant
Guelph Mercury When that call finally came, Phil and Sandi took Tyrel to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children where he had the transplant surgery. “The kidney was a perfect match and he did well for the first few days,” Sandi said. “Then we had a scare. He developed … |
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Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Celebrates 20 Years with Public …
PR Web (press release) LLUCH has pioneered and continues to lead in the area of infant heart transplantation, and has received acclaim for its many programs to treat pediatric patients, including proton treatment for cancer, trauma care, physical rehabilitation, intensive … |
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Leonhardt Ventures Heart Failure Technology Showcase San Francisco
eReleases (press release) SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Leonhardt Ventures will showcase its cardiovascular and heart disease related technologies Tuesday, October 29th, 3pm to 4pm @ PARISOMA 169 11th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 – Conveniently … |
Sleep apnea linked to subclinical myocardial injuryHealio… to demonstrate that greater obstructive sleep apnea severity is independently associated with higher high-sensitivity troponin T levels, suggesting a role for subclinical myocardial injury in…
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The Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Drug Market Will Nearly Double to More Than …
The Providence Journal The Pharmacor advisory service entitled Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma finds that sales of rituximab dominate the current market, and will continue to do so through 2022, regardless of biosimilar rituximab entry. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries’ … |
Lung cancer: Early palliative care can lead to improvements in quality of life …myfox8.comDr. Ramaswamy is a 1995 graduate of Coimbatore Medical College in Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his residency in internal medicine at MetroHealth Medical Cent…