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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…
Plight of a Young Cancer Survivor – The Atlantic
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Plight of a Young Cancer Survivor
The Atlantic At first, he wanted to forget that it ever happened by returning to his life of touring, a risky operation given that his stem cell transplant made him very susceptible to infection. McMahon’s struggles aren’t rare among young adult cancer survivors. |
Medicines for all: Woman threatens anti-India drug cabal in America – Hindustan Times
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Medicines for all: Woman threatens anti-India drug cabal in America
Hindustan Times Every night, she, her husband Mohamed Aboseada and their two sons gather around a computer to Skype with Fathi Aboseada – “we want him to live, he is like my father…” Mahmud has even considered flying to India to get her father-in-law’s monthly dosage … |
Born Babies Save Lives—Their Own and Others by Their Umbilical Cord Stem … – National Right to Life News
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Born Babies Save Lives—Their Own and Others by Their Umbilical Cord Stem …
National Right to Life News The first umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant was performed in October 1988, for a 5-year-old child with Fanconi anemia, a serious condition where the bone marrow fails to make blood cells. That patient is currently alive and healthy, 25 years … Grampa Fighting Cancer Saved by Two BabiesGrowing Your Baby |
Stem cell clinic for 4 year old – Cambridge Times
Stem cell clinic for 4 year oldCambridge TimesThe goal is to get Katie into remission, to be ready to go for a bone marrow stem cell transplant when a match is found. The lower the number of cancer cells pre-transplant the better, her mom explained. Ka…