Around Your Town, Feb. 15Sierra Vista HeraldDoors will open at 7:30 a.m. and close promptly at 11 a.m. A donation of $5 for adults and $3 for children is payable at the door or you can purchase advanced tickets from any Tombstone Lion. For any addition…
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CORONA: Sister’s death from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma mobilizes woman
Press-Enterprise But she was trapped by illness.” Hodgkin’s lymphoma held Liz captive for 10 years, teasing her with optimistic test results only to return with a bigger helping of pain. A stem-cell transplant chased it away for almost a year, the longest remission she … |
The Friday FlyerLooking back at February of past yearsThe Friday FlyerThe Indian Beach Lift Station was under construction in February 2008. In February 2008 …. Publisher Chuck Golding and Editor Carolyn Knight, however, pledged to continue publicati…
Hospitals revise bathing regimen to reduce infectionsMedCity NewsThe study reported last week enrolled 7,727 patients at six intensive-care units or bone marrow transplantation units between August 2007 and February 2009. The study compared bathing wit…
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Five new MDS drugs “set to launch by 2018”
PharmaTimes Currently, there is only one curative treatment for MDS – allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT); however, because of old age and poor general performance status, around 75% of patients are classified as ineligible for this treatment … |
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Guide: Listing of events
Gainesville Sun TWO-ORGAN SPECTACULAR: Concert features two organs performed by John T. Lowe, Jr., John Bradford Bohl, Timothy Denton and Peter Kinzie, 3 p.m. Sunday, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 100 NE First St. Free. … INDIAN INK THEATRE COMPANY — “GURU OF CHAI … |
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Valley soldier needs life-saving transplant
CBS 47 A bone marrow stem cell transplant is the only cure. Kaiser Permanente Oncologist, Dr. Zhang says every second counts in finding a match. The best chance is a Hispanic and minorities tend to donate less. “A lot of it is from cultural religious belief … |
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Love will be in the air today at Hotel Congress
Arizona Daily Star In August 2011, shortly after receiving a stem-cell transplant from her brother, the 17-year-old girl’s health began to decline and she lost her battle with cancer on Aug. 9, 2011. “From that day on, he just never left my side,” Ballesteros said of … |
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Sea slugs grow new p**** every time they mate
Indian Express These animals are “simultaneous hermaphrodites,” meaning each performs both the “male role” of donating sperm to a mating partner and the “female role” of receiving sperm from the partner simultaneously during copulation. A typical mating episode … |
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Organ donation: Rules you should know
India.Com Health There are namely two types of donations, a live donation (where a patient’s family member or close friend, chooses to donate their organ to a loved one) and cadaveric donations (where a person pledges their organs for harvesting and donation after … |