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E – cigarettes : A new generation of addicts ?
Daily News & Analysis “It is clear that smoking is extraordinarily dangerous; it causes heart disease, lung cancer and it needs to be extraordinarily well-regulated,” he says. But, he adds, “these replacements are being more strongly regulated than tobacco”. Dr Proctor … |
Understanding Sickle Cell Disease – News-Medical.net
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Understanding Sickle Cell Disease
News-Medical.net Sickle cell patients’ pain is real and is triggered by damage to major parts of their bodies, including the heart, lungs, kidneys and brain. Also, they are … The disease also affects four to five million people in the Middle East, India, South … |
Health minister proposes allowing surrogacy for gay couples and singles – Haaretz
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Health minister proposes allowing surrogacy for gay couples and singles
Haaretz The Health Ministry also is pushing for major changes to organ donation laws. Every Israeli with a driver’s license would automatically be added to the country’s organ donor list unless they explicitly refuse, under an initiative by German and the … |
Recall of Colorado gun controller gets enough signatures – Daily Caller
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Recall of Colorado gun controller gets enough signatures
Daily Caller Colorado Senate President John Morse, the legislator who has become the face of the state’s tough new gun control laws, may be campaigning to save his political career now that the secretary of state has certified that his opponents turned in enough … |
Gomez: I told McCain he should have left office by now – Daily Caller
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Gomez: I told McCain he should have left office by now
Daily Caller Gabriel Gomez, the Republican nominee in the race for Secretary of State John Kerry’s old Senate seat, said Tuesday that he told veteran Sen. John McCain that he ought to have term limited himself out of the Senate by now. Gomez’s opponent, Democratic … |
Omani back from death after 6 heart procedures at a go – Times of India
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Omani back from death after 6 heart procedures at a go
Times of India Right from accessing his heart through an infected chest bone and attaching the heart-lung machine, the doctors had to innovate at every step. It took them five hours to reach Alriyani’s heart and then they found that all his organs, including the … |
More Organ-Donor Testing is Advised – Wall Street Journal
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More Organ-Donor Testing is Advised
Wall Street Journal Organs harvested from deceased donors can only be used for a short period of time, and pathogens like HIV or hepatitis don’t immediately show up on tests, evading detection for weeks, if not months. Tests with shorter turnaround times—like the ones … Senate Passes Bill Ending Ban On HIV-Positive Organ Donation ResearchLez Get Real Senate Passes HIV Organ Policy Equity Act by Unanimous ConsentFrontiers LA (blog) Organ Transplant Legislation, Co-Sponsored by Capps, Approved by US SenateNoozhawk Imperial Valley News all 6 news articles » |
Governor push for student organ donor programme – Times of India
HaaretzGovernor push for student organ donor programmeTimes of IndiaHealth minister Suresh Shetty had approached Sankaranarayanan, who is the chancellor of all universities in the state, with the idea of enrolling students for the organ donation progra…
Gift of organs from the boy with smiling eyes – The West Australian
The West AustralianGift of organs from the boy with smiling eyesThe West AustralianDorine Prince looked at the world through constantly smiling, enthusiastic eyes and his distraught parents hope the gift of organ donation will give someone else the sam…
Facebook Boosts Organ Donation Registration, Study Finds – Huffington Post
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Facebook Boosts Organ Donation Registration, Study Finds
Huffington Post In May 2012, Facebook gave users an option to share their status as an organ donor on the social media site, and also provided access to links where people could get officially registered online with their state’s department of motor vehicles. And … |