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CHP announces organ donor license plate campaign
Victorville Daily Press In hopes to help save lives, the California Highway Patrol announced a special license plate to “spread the life-saving message that organ and tissue donation saves lives,” according to a news release. The license plate will feature the message “Save … |
Problem Solver: Refund for deceased son's Internet charges never arrives – Chicago Tribune
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Problem Solver: Refund for deceased son’s Internet charges never arrives
Chicago Tribune … but his mother believes it was during a trip abroad. While in India, insects burrowed into his skin, and though he received medical attention, he was never the same after that, Pamela Roberts said. Bestwina died March 15 of liver failure at age 36 … |
Mother gives her son the gift of sight from beyond the grave as Florida … – Daily Mail
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Mother gives her son the gift of sight from beyond the grave as Florida …
Daily Mail Within days of his mother’s death from a heart attack, Mr Aguirre, 39, underwent the first ever mother-son corneal transplant surgery in the history of the Florida Lions Eye Bank. ‘It’s like a whole new world has opened up,’ the 39-year old Aguirre … |
Infant organ donor honored in Rose Parade – THV 11
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Infant organ donor honored in Rose Parade
THV 11 … Tournament of Roses parade. “The family made a really wonderful decision, and a little piece of Eli lives on,” said hospital president, Marcy Doderer. She explained how one tiny organ donor from Arkansas will be remembered as part of the beautiful … |
Man who invented Lorenzo's Oil dies at 80 – Times of India
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Man who invented Lorenzo’s Oil dies at 80
Times of India ROME: Augusto Odone, a former World Bank economist, defied skeptical scientists to invent a treatment to try to save the life of his little boy, wasting away from a neurological disease, and to give hope to other children afflicted with the same … |
Glenwood Takes Part in Blood Donation Challenge – WICS-TV
WICS-TVGlenwood Takes Part in Blood Donation ChallengeWICS-TV… 1.6 million people were diagnosed with cancer last year. Many of them will need blood–sometimes daily–during their chemotherapy treatment. The blood type most often requested by hospita…
Sparklers deadlier than Diwali bombs – Times of India
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Sparklers deadlier than Diwali bombs
Times of India “It wreaks havoc with the lungs and liver.” Sudipto Bhattacharjee cautioned that these toxic metals enter the body not only through breathing, but from a mere touch. While using sparklers, people, particularly children, absorb metals through the skin … |
Events on Long Island – New York Times
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Events on Long Island
New York Times Free to $15. goldcoastfilmfestival.org. HUNTINGTON “Pandora’s Box,” a screening of this 1929 German silent melodrama with live organ accompaniment by Ben Model. …. (631) 632-1093; universitycafe.org. WESTBURY India Arie, neo soul and R&B. Nov. |
Man Who Received Kidney Transplant Marries His Organ Donor – TIME
NEWS.com.auMan Who Received Kidney Transplant Marries His Organ DonorTIMEIn a story straight out of a Hollywood movie, an Indiana man in need of a kidney, and the woman who provided the necessary organ, have married. The ceremony took place three years…
World obesity day: Watch out! Do not pamper your child with that burger! – Daily News & Analysis
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World obesity day: Watch out! Do not pamper your child with that burger!
Daily News & Analysis Weighing 33 kg, he would get breathless quickly and was unable to play, was pre-diabetic with uncontrollable hunger and hepatomegaly (inflammation of liver). His worried parents brought him to an obesity surgeon who … In very rare cases, there is a … |