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Blood donation sites, week of Oct. 27
Tampabay.com LifeSouth Community Blood Center will have blood drives at the following off-site locations this week. Today: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Lizzie T’s Coffee House, 7635 Horse Lake Road, Brooksville; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Walmart, 1485 Commercial Way, Spring Hill. |
US panel backs Gilead Sciences' hepatitis C drug – Zee News
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US panel backs Gilead Sciences’ hepatitis C drug
Zee News Washington: US Food and Drug Administration advisers have unanimously voted in favor of a highly anticipated hepatitis C drug from Gilead Sciences that holds promise for millions infected with the liver-destroying virus. All 15 members of the FDA’s … |
Tufts nurse donates kidney to stranger – Boston Herald
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Tufts nurse donates kidney to stranger
Boston Herald I was just amazed at such a sacrifice,” Harris said. He and Mitchell-Dozier matched for both blood type and tissue. The transplant surgery took place in July. “It is a very amazing thing to meet a person who is selfless like Ms. Dozier,” said Harris’s … |
Chronic Heart Failure to Boost Future Growth – Today's Medical Developments
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Chronic Heart Failure to Boost Future Growth
Today’s Medical Developments Although the renal denervation market has previously been focused on the intervention’s treatment of patients with resistant and uncontrolled hypertension, it is expected that the next approved indication will be in chronic heart failure patients, says … |
Marin Readers' Forum for Oct. 26 – Marin Independent Journal
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Marin Readers’ Forum for Oct. 26
Marin Independent Journal For your readers who remember the “iron lung” and the fear of this crippling disease in our own country, Rotary has since 1985 been the lead volunteer global leader in attempting to eradicate this contagious virus. Since the beginning — with partners … |
Once an indisputable fact, medical advances have turned death into a diagnosis … – National Post
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Once an indisputable fact, medical advances have turned death into a diagnosis …
National Post Thus was born the modern concept of “brain death.” Fotolia. Once an indisputable fact, death became a diagnosis, a judgment call, an educated opinion — and a new world of ethical nightmares opened up. For most people, they are alive one minute and not … |
CHP announces organ donor license plate campaign – Victorville Daily Press
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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 … |