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The Herald | HeraldOnline.com A benefit for Richard Jenkins, who needs a heart and lung transplant after being bitten by a spider seven years ago, will be at 6 p.m. Saturday at John’s Place in Fort Mill. Jenkins is shown here with his daughters Chloe, 7, and McKinley, 17 months … |
India WestFour Indian Americans Receive Soros Fellowships for New AmericansIndia WestIn graduate school, Chhabra is creating a chip model of the liver. The model will replicate the pathophysiology of human livers, thereby enabling a noninvasive study o…
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Mosquito Matchmaker: An Inside (Itchy) Look at Force-Mating Mosquitoes
Gizmodo India “I don’t do it because I love mosquitoes,” says Andolina. Her work creates a ready supply of parasites. She provides these to collaborators in Paris and Singapore, who are trying to develop new drugs that target malarial parasites holding out in a … |
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TomTom Squeezes a Heart Rate Monitor Into Its GPS Watches
Gizmodo India When we reviewed the TomTom Runner GPS watch last year, we pointed out that if you wanted to monitor your heart rate, you’d need to buy an extra accessory. But for athletes looking to seriously train their bodies, metrics on how fast or far they ran … |
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Should Circumcision Be Mandatory?
Daily Beast The Supreme Court decision ending aggregate limits on political donations was made possible by a dangerous, narrow definition of “corruption” the Framers themselves wouldn’t recognize. At the core of the disaster …. Notably, India and China didn’t … |
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Barcelona ban another big blow to self-styled ‘Mes que un Club’ mantra
Goal.com Abidal also returned after a liver transplant and was publically promised a new contract when he played again. That deal never materialised, however, and the France defender departed under a cloud, leaving many to question Barca’s much-mentioned … |
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HC notice over not using donor’s body for research
Business Standard During the hearing, the bench expressed displeasure over the issue and asked the governments to appraise it on the guidelines and rules on organ donation. It said the “last desire of the lady was not realised due to catch-22 situation” of the authorities. |
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Students look for scholarships in some unusual places
Santa Fe New Mexican.com “For some scholarships, you have to be African-American or Indian… . For some, you …. He won about a dozen, including a $3,000 first prize from the Done Vida campaign for a two-minute video he produced to promote organ donation. The biggest boon was … |
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Civil society participation vital for public-health programming
OpEdNews The Knowledge-Attitude-Practice (KAP) survey results underline the payoffs of civil-society participation in public-health programming,” said Dr Sarabjit Chadha, Project Director of ‘Axshya’ at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung … |
India TodayWarning issued after Saharan dust lands in EnglandIndia TodayBritish authorities on Wednesday warned people with heart or lung conditions to avoid exertion as a combination of industrial pollution and Sahara dust blankets the country in smog…