02Feb/14

Patients given smokers' lungs are just as likely to survive, says new study – Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Patients given smokers’ lungs are just as likely to survive, says new study
Daily Mail
André Simon, director of heart and lung transplantation and consultant cardiac surgeon at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, said heavy smokers’ lungs could provide a ‘valuable avenue for increasing donor organ availability’. He told the newspaper
Smokers’ lungs ‘valuable avenue’ for increasing donor organ availability: StudySun News Network
Smokers’ lungs used in half of transplantsThe Independent

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02Feb/14

Sunshine Prevents People From Suffering Stroke and Heart Failure – Guardian Liberty Voice


Guardian Liberty Voice

Sunshine Prevents People From Suffering Stroke and Heart Failure
Guardian Liberty Voice
New research has found that spending time in the sun may prevent people from suffering heart failure or stroke. Sunshine could even save lives. It all has to do with the effect of the sun’s UVA rays on the skin, and blood pressure. The new research

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02Feb/14

'He's up and alive,' WMU grad says of recipient of his donated blood stem cells – The Kalamazoo Gazette

‘He’s up and alive,’ WMU grad says of recipient of his donated blood stem cells
The Kalamazoo Gazette
This time, he was a match for a 66-year-old man with cancer who needed a blood stem cell transplant very soon. He’d already done the necessary screening, so he figured he’d “go for it,” he said. For Larson to match not just one, but two people in such