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Augusta man receives daughter-in-law’s kidney following years of bad health
Kennebec Journal Julie Poulin, left, poses with her father-in-law, John Poulin Sr., on Wednesday in Augusta. She donated one of her kidneys to him in a recent transplant surgery. Staff photo by Joe Phelan. Select images available for purchase in the. Maine Today Photo … |
Breast Cancer Rx Linked to Heart FailuredailyRx(dailyRx News) Roughly one in four breast cancers has too much of a protein called HER2, which makes the cancer grow faster. The medication Herceptin (trastuzumab) targets the HER2 protein to help breast c…
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Air pollution: India faces a grim predicament
Hindustan Times The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced, for the first time, that air pollution causes lung cancer. It also said that poisoned air’s major component, particulate matter — smoke, dust and other dirty byproducts of road traffic … Choke on neglect smokeCalcutta Telegraph |
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LA man takes beliebing to disconcerting levels, just in time for Halloween
The Daily Cougar Sheldon has undergone a hair transplant surgery to bring forward his receding hairline, Botox and Aquamid — which is illegal in the US — to alter his face and lips, eyelid surgery to achieve that “sultry” Bieber look and a three-part smile surgery … |
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Findings in Amino Acids Reported from Novartis Pharma
HispanicBusiness.com Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Novartis Pharma, “Here we report the characterization of a proposed biosimilar rituximab (GP2013) and originator rituximab. To compare GP2013 with originator rituximab using an extensive … |
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What’s the Deal With Creatine?
Gizmodo India Creatine is made by our kidneys and livers, but approximately 95 percent of it is stored in our muscle tissue. That makes sense, since that’s where it’s used. It was first discovered in 1832, but it didn’t rise to prominence in the sports world until … |
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This week’s one-off screenings
Philadelphia City Paper Blood Brother (2013, U.S., 92 min.): A winner at Sundance this year, this doc follows a graphic designer who quit his job to help Indian orphans living with H.I.V. Q&A with director Steve Hoover post-screening via Skype. Tue., Oct. 29, 7 p.m., $10.50. |
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Women go bald too: 82% rise in number of females resorting to hair transplant …
Daily Mail Women go bald too: 82% rise in number of females resorting to hair transplant surgery to restore thinning locks. Average age of women seeking hair transplants is 39; Specialists say it’s down to better awareness of problem and remedies; Hair loss … |
Corticosteroids effectively treated patients on anti-TNF-a therapy with …HealioPatients being treated with anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha drugs who developed psoriasiform eruptions achieved partial to complete resolution of lesions after topical co…
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Iran: Man Who Survived Hanging Now In Coma
Eurasia Review IRNA reports that according to an unnamed source: “The executed smuggler has about six-percent awareness according to his attending physicians and is in danger of brain death.” The report indicates that at this level of coma, there is no possibility of … |