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A child goes missing in India every eight minutes
Catholic Online There is also the “Kumbh Mela syndrome,” which is the Hindu religious congregation that draws millions of pilgrims to the city of Allahabad on the banks of the river Ganga once every 12 years. Some fathers attend to deliberately lose their daughters in … |
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Rise in cadaver transplants brings hope to patients
Daily News & Analysis More than last year’s which stood at 43, show figures put out by the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee, a state body which liaises between patients awaiting an organ and availability of cadaver donations. A cadaver transplant is an organ taken … |
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Ethics of uterus transplants debated
CBC.ca Uterus transplant, CBC Radio’s The Current. Dr. Münire Akar made medical history by implanting a frozen embryo into a woman with a transplanted uterus. Monday’s implant, in Turkey, was the first time doctors have tried to impregnate a woman with a … |
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‘Frankenstein’s Cat’: Bioengineering The Animals Of The Future
Public Radio Tulsa There’s a huge shortage of organ donors worldwide, so scientists just imagine that if you could have these pig farms that are just growing organs constantly, it might save a lot of lives. The problem is … rejection. It just shows the potential of if … |
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Arnie’s Rebounding World: My New Occupation As Multiple Myeloma Patient
The Myeloma Beacon In the last three years or so, I have had a second autologous stem cell transplant, multiple rounds of novel myeloma therapies, traditional chemotherapy, a donor (allogeneic) stem cell transplant in August, and radiation therapy last month. I had hoped … |
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance …
Newswise (press release) Storb is a world-renowned scientist, oncology doctor and expert in bone-marrow transplantation and blood cancer. Additionally, he is a founder of one of the most essential cancer research … Paul O’Donnell, MD, PhD, member of the Clinical Research … Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center names seasoned media executive as …Hutchinson Center A Life of Science |
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CMV Prevention Drug Fast-Tracked by FDA
Monthly Prescribing Reference Phase 2 clinical development of CMX001, for the prevention of CMV infection in adult hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients, has been completed. Chimeric is planning on initiating SUPPRESS, a Phase 3 study of CMX001 for the prevention of … Chimerix antiviral lands on FDA’s fast trackWRAL Tech Wire Chimerix receives FDA Fast Track designation for CMX001 to prevent CMV …News-Medical.net |
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The Renal Failure Epidemic
AllAfrica.com I came back from India on February 20. …. We paid for the donor, and the donor’s wife for the travel expenses and took care of the family. … I’m told by the doctors in India that when you drink a bottle of beer, it translates to 20 cubes of sugar … |
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Caught in the tempest
The New Indian Express A newspaper piece that I chanced to flip through prompted me to think about its cinematic possibilities.” The director who is a … He says, “It is a socially relevant film, mentioning many contemporary issues like religion, organ donation and … |
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The Renal Failure Epidemic
THISDAY Live I came back from India on February 20. …. We paid for the donor, and the donor’s wife for the travel expenses and took care of the family. … I’m told by the doctors in India that when you drink a bottle of beer, it translates to 20 cubes of sugar … |