CRRT Offers Better Acute Kidney Injury OutcomesRenal and Urology NewsPatients with severe acute kidney injury (AKI) initially treated with intermittent rather than continuous renal replacement therapy (RRT) may be more likely to become dialysis depende…
Durban to host World Transplant Games – Newstrack India
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Durban to host World Transplant Games
Newstrack India The World Transplant Games Federation president Olivier Coustere Thursday said: “Countries that have hosted the event have experienced a 30 percent or higher increase in organ donation rates.” James Nxumalo, Mayor of Ethekwini Municipality where the … |
New entrants to multiple sclerosis market will drive 10% pa growth through 2018 – The Pharma Letter
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New entrants to multiple sclerosis market will drive 10% pa growth through 2018
The Pharma Letter … reformulations of platform injectables and three highly efficacious monoclonal antibodies – Genzyme/Bayer’s (BAYN: DE) Lemtrada (alemtuzumab), Roche (ROG: SIX)/Genentech’s ocrelizumab and Biogen Idec/AbbVie’s (NYSE: ABBV) daclizumab. |
Heart institute starts new treatment for heart failure… – New Vision
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Heart institute starts new treatment for heart failure…
New Vision The new treatment “Cardiac Re-synchronization Therapy’ (CRT) is a highly technical mode of treatment for heart failure involving implantation of a special pace maker in the heart with the aim of taking over the whole function of the heart. Speaking at … |
Cheating sleep damages your heart – Times of India
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Cheating sleep damages your heart
Times of India All studies are united by one critical association — an adverse impact on the heart. A Norwegian study conducted earlier this year found that insomnia may triple the risk of developing heart failure. A 2008 University of Chicago study found that one … |
Indian-American doctors launch heart-disease education networks – New York Daily News
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Indian-American doctors launch heart-disease education networks
New York Daily News Washington, July 26 — With heart disease emerging as the number one killer among Indians, an ethnic doctors’ group has launched educational “Networks” to foster high quality medical education of Asian Indian origin physicians in the US. Launched by … |
Saving newborn lives in India: A look at govt initiatives – Reuters AlertNet
Saving newborn lives in India: A look at govt initiativesReuters AlertNetIndia today accounts for nearly one third of all newborn deaths worldwide but fortunately the Indian govt agrees that saving newborn lives should be a national priority, writes Dr…
Chinese search for infant formula goes global – Times of India
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Chinese search for infant formula goes global
Times of India At Lung Fung Garden, a street mall that is one subway stop from Lo Wu, employees and managers of pharmacies displaying towers of formula cans said that business had plummeted. “Before, we would sell out of our stock,” said one man at the Lung Fung … |
Interfaith: Organ donations not only saves lives, it keeps commandments – Ventura County Star
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Interfaith: Organ donations not only saves lives, it keeps commandments
Ventura County Star Noam suffered irreversible lower-brain death after falling from a fourth-story window in his home to the second floor below. The Naor family who are religiously observant consulted with their rabbi who agreed with their decision to donate their son’s … |
Battle the silent killer, hepatitis – Times of India
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Battle the silent killer, hepatitis
Times of India … carrier frequency of 2%-4%. India is home to 11% of the world’s people with chronic hepatitis B and the number of deaths from hepatocellular carcinoma or cirrhosis each year is between 100,000 and 200,000. … With the most comprehensive multi … |