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Hickman man beats two cancers, wants to give back
KLKN And is constantly working, even if that means building his own tractor ice cream maker. But he has another birthday he’ll celebrate each year, October 29. After many blood transfusions, that’s the day he got a life-saving stem cell transplant. Mike … |
Organs of brain dead person donated – The Hindu
Organs of brain dead person donatedThe HinduThe organs of a 56-year-old man, who was declared brain dead at Global Health City, were donated by his family members. Philomin Raj, a resident of Chennai, was admitted to the hospital with a history of sudd…
Straight from the heart – Newrichlandstar
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Straight from the heart
Newrichlandstar 7, 2013, Ron got a call from doctors informing him they finally had a heart donor for him. Ron received a new heart on Sept. 8, his daughter Amy’s birthday. The heart transplant surgery, the second one that took place at the University of Minnesota … |
Organ donation offers brother a second chance at life – Deseret News
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Organ donation offers brother a second chance at life
Deseret News Brothers Dale, left, and Duane Woolsey talk about Duane donating a kidney to Dale last year at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Intermountain’s Transplant Program had a record-breaking year for organ transplants in … |
A different touch to V-Day celebrations – Daily News & Analysis
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A different touch to V-Day celebrations
Daily News & Analysis An organ donation awareness programme was also conducted near Masunda lake. Punarjivan Samajik Sanstha conducted a rally to create awareness about organ donation. “On Valentine’s Day, we are expecting more youngsters. It is a perfect opportunity … |
Giving a spouse the gift of life – Daily News & Analysis
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Giving a spouse the gift of life
Daily News & Analysis The report states that in the last decade, there has been a striking change in the spectrum of living renal donors in India. While spouses constituted just 17.2% of all donors between 2002 and 2006, the percentage has now almost doubled to 34% with … |
Why Did the Husband of One Brain Dead Wife Let His Baby Live and the Other … – LifeNews.com
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Why Did the Husband of One Brain Dead Wife Let His Baby Live and the Other …
LifeNews.com “Brain death” was introduced in 1968 by an ad hoc committee of the Harvard Medical School in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was introduced mainly to facilitate “organ harvesting” and to reallocate resources away from patients whose … |
Valuable Antibodies at a Grisly Cost – New Yorker (blog)
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Valuable Antibodies at a Grisly Cost
New Yorker (blog) 11765 belonged provides antibodies, which are crucial for biomedical research—they can mark cells, pull specific proteins from a slurry of tissue, or deliver a radioactive payload directly to a tumor. To harvest antibodies from an animal, technicians … |
Lungentransplantation – Therapieoption bei Lungenerkrankungen im Endstadium – Deutsches Ärzteblatt
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Lungentransplantation – Therapieoption bei Lungenerkrankungen im Endstadium
Deutsches Ärzteblatt In den letzten Jahren haben die Einführung der „mammalian target of rapamycin“(mTOR)-Inhibitoren (Sirolimus und Everolimus) und des Anti-CD25-Antikörpers (Daclizumab, Basiliximab – nur Induktionstherapie) die Kombinationsmöglichkeiten erweitert (24, … |
Diversity highlight of alumni headed for Hall of Honor – Aurora Beacon News
Diversity highlight of alumni headed for Hall of HonorAurora Beacon NewsWilliam Beschorner, Class of 1965 (deceased, March 2011), was a pioneer in xenotransplantation, the science of transplanting organs from one species to another. He was internationa…