Lifesaving Procedure With an Image ProblemNEWS.GNOM.ESFor cancer patients, a stem cell transplant offers an additional benefit: The new blood cells can attack errant cancer cells that may have survived the original chemotherapy. Two years ago Steven Sa…
Spain leads world in organ donation, transplant: expertShanghai Daily (subscription)… health service may have suffered a series of cutbacks as a result of the economic crisis, but there is one area in which Spain remains a leader and the Spanish peop…
Matters of the HeartThe New Indian ExpressHeart Failure Society of India in partnership with Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad organised a national conference on updating knowledge about the various advances in the management of heart patients on April 1…
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LLCC group takes up organ donation cause
The State Journal-Register Although the Illinois secretary of state’s “Be a Hero” campaign involves community college students, anyone can be an organ donor and help LLCC students meet their goal. One reason community college students are being targeted for the campaign is that … |
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Take strong stand against tobacco: Doctor tells Narendra Modi
Daily News & Analysis One-third of them will be diseased by serious illnesses such as cancer, heart diseases, lung cancers etc. and will die premature deaths. “Several studies conducted in India and abroad suggest that the powerful tobacco industry that includes … ‘End the unholy alliance between political parties and the tobacco lobby’Free Press Journal |
GUESS | Which country in the world leads in organ donation, transplant?InterAksyonMADRID — The Spanish health service may have suffered a series of cutbacks as a result of the economic crisis, but there is one area in which Spain remains a leader and …
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National Donate Life Month
Boston.com (blog) So many people are battling diseases that can be solved by organ donation. After the bombing, many of us felt helpless — this is how people waiting on the organ waitlist feel for years. There are 120,000 people waiting for organ donations in the … It’s National Donate Life Month; Renton agency seeks donorsRenton Reporter |
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Portage native meets her bone marrow donor
Portage Daily Register Bieno had multiple rounds of chemotherapy to kill the diseased marrow and needed a match for a stem cell transplant, which would enable healthy donor cells to take on the disease. The stem cells are extracted from a donor’s blood and pumped into the … |
New panel to cut through red tapePune MirrorIn India, organ donation and transplantation activities are governed by the Transplantation of Human Organ Act (THO), 1994. The law has been made to regulate removal, storage and transplantation of human orga…
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Brunswick father Paul Catelli will undergo autologous haematopoietic stem cell …
Herald Sun Mr Catelli will fly to Russia in April next year for potentially lifesaving autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplant treatment. The treatment will harvest Mr Catelli’s stem cells from bone marrow or his blood, administer high doses of … |