06Oct/17

FDA Approves Roche Zika Virus Assay for Blood Donation Screening – GenomeWeb

FirstpostFDA Approves Roche Zika Virus Assay for Blood Donation ScreeningGenomeWebIn early 2016, Roche began using the Zika assay to screen blood samples under an Investigational New Drug application protocol. The FDA said that the company generated da…

06Oct/17

Synthetic bone material and liquid nitrogen engine projects awarded up to £80000 – Professional Engineering


Professional Engineering

Synthetic bone material and liquid nitrogen engine projects awarded up to £80000
Professional Engineering
Current transplants use grafts from the patient, or a combination of deceased donors and animal bones. The techniques increase the risk of infection, causing delays in healing and higher treatment costs. Abdulaziz hopes to minimise the issues with her …

06Oct/17

‘What’s the alternative, to let someone you love suffer?’: Number of Canadians treated for kidney failure has … – Toronto Star


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‘What’s the alternative, to let someone you love suffer?’: Number of Canadians treated for kidney failure has
Toronto Star
All three were moved to learn this week that Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders and his wife, Stacey, Saunders were joining their community of living kidney donors and recipients. Cameron, 68, even sent her best wishes to the chief and his wife, along

06Oct/17

I know only too well the vital importance of organ donation – Devon Live

Devon LiveI know only too well the vital importance of organ donationDevon LiveNo, what really made me smile was her proposal to change the organ donation rules, to make us opt out if we do not want our organs given to others after death. Instead of th…

06Oct/17

Organ donation opt-out plan: What do people waiting for transplants think? – BBC News


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Organ donation opt-out plan: What do people waiting for transplants think?
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At home, Julie Bartlett has her bags packed and people on standby to drive her to hospital, just in case she receives a phone call saying doctors have a heart that is a match for her. If the call comes, she’ll have a couple of hours to get to Harefield
‘It’s great Wales has been leading the way on organ donation. I’m so proud to be Welsh’iNews
Local teacher reaches out on social media for an organ donorKGNS.tv
British gov’t will now presume everyone is an organ donor, even without permissionLifesite
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06Oct/17

Organ donation opt-out plan: What do people waiting for transplants … – BBC News


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