25Aug/15

Granddad’s 89th blood donation saved his life after low iron levels identified … – Mirror.co.uk


Mirror.co.uk

Granddad’s 89th blood donation saved his life after low iron levels identified
Mirror.co.uk
A big-hearted grandfather who has given 88 PINTS of blood over the years says his last attempt to donate saved his life. Paul Maynard, from Denton, has given blood for 40 years and had hoped to reach his 100th pint. But when he tried to make his 89th …

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25Aug/15

SORL1 rare variants: a major risk factor for familial early-onset Alzheimer’s … – Nature.com

SORL1 rare variants: a major risk factor for familial early-onset Alzheimer’s
Nature.com
To address this issue we performed a case–control study on rare variants using whole-exome sequencing (WES) data from 484 unrelated French EOAD patients and 498 ethnically matched controls. … The remaining controls were healthy blood donors.

25Aug/15

Tamil Nadu leads in organ transplantations in the country for 2015 – Daily News & Analysis


Daily News & Analysis

Tamil Nadu leads in organ transplantations in the country for 2015
Daily News & Analysis
In a first of its kind, the heart and lungs harvested from a 19-year-old organ donor in Kochi were flown to Chennai on August 12 for transplantations. But this is just another in the series of achievements in the area of organ transplants for the state

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