Sumner hit-and-run victim saving lives as organ donorKOMO NewsSumner hit-and-run victim saving lives as organ donor. By Noah Bond Published: Oct 8, 2013 at 2:43 PM PDT Last Updated: Oct 8, 2013 at 5:45 PM PDT. Share this story. Comments; print ·…
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Cubbon Park stakeholders spar over pigeons, stray dogs
Times of India And that’s just where the problems start for one of the city’s major lung spaces. From dog lovers, pigeon feeders, … Sadly, the horticulture department, which is responsible for maintaining this lung space, is yet to intervene decisively. Ecologists … |
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Testing newborns for ‘bubble boy’ disease could save money
KOMO News But with a stem cell transplant, people with SCID can lead normal lives. If it’s undetected and untreated, SCID typically leads to death before a baby’s first birthday. The federal government recommended in 2010 all states add SCID to newborn screening … |
Heart failure patients often return to the hospitalWZZM(WZZM) Heart failure has one of the highest hospital readmission rates among medicare and medicaid patients. A new study finds memory problems and mental health issues are two of the big reasons wh…
OxyELITE Pro Pulled From Shelves Nationwide After 29 Liver Failure Cases In …Huffington PostDiet supplement manufacturer USPLabs is stopping nationwide distribution of the diet pill OxyELITE Pro in lieu of a staggering number of liver failure cases a…
FDA approves Adempas to treat pulmonary hypertensionFDA.govIn its various forms, pulmonary hypertension is a chronic, progressive, debilitating disease, often leading to death or need for lung transplantation. Adempas belongs to a class of drugs called…
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Four-variable score predicts acute kidney injury
Family Practice News Digital Network DENVER – A four-variable risk score predicted acute kidney injury with high specificity in patients receiving vancomycin, results from a single-center study demonstrated. During a poster session at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial … |
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The power of one
The Almanac Online … an organ to a stranger. In another, an 11-year-old boy and girl in India become community leaders fighting for access to clean drinking water and polio vaccinations. … This year’s films expand the notion of what constitutes a human-rights issue … |
Saving lives, by redefining deathOn Line opinionWhile trying to determine if Amanda satisfied all the requirements of brain death, all controlled by the brain stem, she realised that Amanda, despite her irreversible brain damage, had some reflexive neu…
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Decline of the Buddha’s teaching to a religion
The Island.lk (subscription) The individual who has by now calmed down by his subduing of greed and tension is able to be the commander of his sense organs, instead of being pathetically at their command as most of us are. This gives him the ability to concentrate his full and un … |