NZ@Noon: Scratch leaves man criticalNew Zealand HeraldStories making headlines around the region include a scratch which left a man with organ failure, and Rotorua says goodbye to free antenatal classes. A rose thorn scratch left a fit and healthy Taur…
New blood donation rules take effect in Canada two decades after tainted-blood … – CTV News
CTV NewsNew blood donation rules take effect in Canada two decades after tainted-blood …CTV NewsMONTREAL — A new blood-donation policy came into effect across Canada on Monday, officially nixing the lifelong ban that prevented men who have had sex w…
QOF not behind falling heart failure admissions, claim researchers – Pulse
QOF not behind falling heart failure admissions, claim researchersPulseThe researchers studied practice-level admissions rates in England for heart failure between 2004 and 2011. They then correlated this with population factors such as deprivation, ra…
Bolton And Salazar To Headline Domenici Conference In Las Cruces – KRWG
Bolton And Salazar To Headline Domenici Conference In Las CrucesKRWGToday, Frist is focused on health reform, the basic science of heart transplantation, global health policy, K-12 education reform, economic development in low-income countries, health …
Genetic alterations affect everolimus benefit in breast cancer – The Oncology Report
Genetic alterations affect everolimus benefit in breast cancer
The Oncology Report CHICAGO – The benefit of everolimus in hormone receptor–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer appears to be greater for women who have little or no genetic alteration in this cancer’s most commonly altered molecular signaling pathways, … |
Bengal to get India's first transplant hospital – Times of India
Bengal to get India’s first transplant hospital
Times of India “Since 2010 in Bengal, there have been only five instances of organ transplant – one liver transplant and four kidney transplants. This rate can hardly keep a hospital afloat. In Tamil Nadu, there are roughly 100 transplants every year. Even that … |
68 BJP leaders pledge to donate their bodies – Times of India
68 BJP leaders pledge to donate their bodiesTimes of IndiaSpeaking at a function organized on the occasion of Guru Purnima by Dadhichi Deh Dan Samiti to promote donation of bodies, Modi said he was inspired to donate his body after an eye donation camp…
Facebook Is Being Redefined by Its Developing World Users – MIT Technology Review
Facebook Is Being Redefined by Its Developing World Users
MIT Technology Review The company has already dabbled with using social engineering to boost organ donations in the U.S. (see “Thank God for Facebook: When Platforms Proselytize”). There’s no shortage of similar experiments that could be run in places with more fundamental … |
GAUGUIN: Higher Obinutuzumab Dose Shows Promise in Non-Hodgkin … – Cancer Network
GAUGUIN: Higher Obinutuzumab Dose Shows Promise in Non-Hodgkin …
Cancer Network “Given that CD20 has proved to be a highly successful target antigen for immunotherapeutic approaches in hematologic malignancies, the development of novel anti-CD20 antibodies with functional activity different from that of rituximab may translate to … |
Red Flag for Chronic Kidney Disease Therapy Raised by Researchers – Doctor Tipster
Red Flag for Chronic Kidney Disease Therapy Raised by ResearchersDoctor TipsterA new research published in the journal The Lancet questions a common clinical practice performed on patients suffering from CKD (chronic kidney disease). This clinical prac…