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Dog set on fire in St. Louis dies from organ failure; family mourns
fox4kc.com ST. LOUIS — A German Shepard, Golden Retriever mix dog, that was set on fire while he was chained to a fence, died Friday morning from his injuries. Evidence shows that Brownie was doused with some kind of accelerant like gasoline and then set on fire. |
Research lets people experience what it feels like to be a cow – Daily Caller
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Research lets people experience what it feels like to be a cow
Daily Caller How would chopping down a tree affect your paper usage? These are questions that Stanford University researchers are using virtual reality to answer. “If somebody becomes an animal, do they gain empathy for that animal and think about its plight … |
Protest To Lift Blood Donation Ban For Gay Men – CBS Local
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Protest To Lift Blood Donation Ban For Gay Men
CBS Local ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Opponents of a federal ban on blood donations by men who have sex with men are demonstrating at a St. Paul blood bank. Organizer Zachary Fincher says about 20 to 40 men will try to donate blood at the Memorial Blood Centers’ St. |
Pran Krishan Sikand Dead: Legendary Indian Actor Pran Dies At 93 – Huffington Post
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Pran Krishan Sikand Dead: Legendary Indian Actor Pran Dies At 93
Huffington Post He never wanted to live in Mumbai, but couldn’t return to Lahore after partition, his daughter Pinky Bhalla said in an interview with Rediff.com, an Indian portal. “He had to start all over again and it was quite a struggle,” she said. Pran persevered … |
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation union to promote organ donation – Times of India
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Kerala State Road Transport Corporation union to promote organ donation
Times of India In the latest such move, members of KESCA, an employee union of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), have included organ donation as part of their year-long 34th anniversary celebrations. Along with cultural programmes, KESCA members … |
Six Makkah hospitals ready for Umrah pilgrims – Arab News
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Six Makkah hospitals ready for Umrah pilgrims
Arab News Reports indicate that most people treated at these facilities are from Egypt, India and Pakistan and mostly over 55 years of age, with chronic problems such as high blood pressure and lung diseases. tags: Saudi Arabia. | نسخة PDF · Send to Friend … |
KSA comes a long way in liver transplants – Arab News
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KSA comes a long way in liver transplants
Arab News Mohammed Al-Sebayel, the first Arab surgeon performing liver transplants and chairman of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery Department at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital (KFSH) in Riyadh, said: “We perform 2-3 successful … |
Heart failure: New treatment option makes heart 'softer' – Medical Xpress
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Heart failure: New treatment option makes heart ‘softer’
Medical Xpress Heart failure with concomitant pulmonary hypertension is a growing health problem with a high mortality rate, above all in older people. The cardiologist Diana Bonderman from the University Department of Internal Medicine II at the MedUni Vienna, as … |
Heart transplant recipient makes organ donation her mission – Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Heart transplant recipient makes organ donation her mission
Las Vegas Review-Journal Back in the hospital, she was put her on the organ donor waiting list. “You have a mixed bag of emotions,” she said. “You need an organ to live, but you know someone’s going to have to die in order for that to happen. I came to the resolve that people … |
Loyola Performs Record Number of Liver Transplants in FY 13 – Newswise (press release)
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Loyola Performs Record Number of Liver Transplants in FY 13
Newswise (press release) Loyola’s dedicated liver transplant team is headed by surgeon Amy Lu, MD, division director of Intra-Abdominal Transplantation, and hepatologist Jamie Berkes, MD, medical director of Liver Transplantation. Dr. Lu, one of the top liver transplant … |