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Home News Teen survives double-lung transplant, but is upset…
Caledon Enterprise When Amanda was a baby, her parents were warned that if medication failed, lung transplantation was the only cure. Amanda enjoyed playing basketball up until recently when she couldn’t shake-off a flu which soon escalated into pneumonia. Distraught … |
Pa. girl who fought organ donation rules expected to go home Tuesday, mother … – Fox News
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Pa. girl who fought organ donation rules expected to go home Tuesday, mother …
Fox News A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl whose plight for a new pair of lungs spurred a national debate over organ transplants is going home Tuesday, her mother said Monday. In a posting on her Facebook page Janet Murnaghan wrote “WE ARE GOING HOME … |
Joy as detained girl returns home after kidney transplant – The Standard Digital News
Joy as detained girl returns home after kidney transplantThe Standard Digital NewsHer mother had donated a kidney in 2005 but it later failed. They had to look for a family in a similar predicament and were lucky to find an Indian, but authorities woul…
UAB Part of Study of New Drug for Vasculitis – Newswise (press release)
UAB Part of Study of New Drug for VasculitisNewswise (press release)While standard therapy consists of daily oral doses of a cancer drug called cyclophosphamide, followed by azathioprine, an immunosuppressant often used in organ transplant, researchers…
UAB part of study of new drug for vasculitis – UAB News
UAB part of study of new drug for vasculitisUAB NewsWhile standard therapy consists of daily oral doses of a cancer drug called cyclophosphamide, followed by azathioprine, an immunosuppressant often used in organ transplant, researchers showed that fou…
Diabetes doubles heart failure risk in women – Telemanagement
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Diabetes doubles heart failure risk in women
Telemanagement The lifetime risk of heart failure in both women and men is one in five. Till now, not much has been known of the risk factors for heart failure in women – although we do know that women are somewhat less likely to have had a preceding heart attack. A … |
Clues about kidney disease from an unexpected direction – Scope (blog)
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Clues about kidney disease from an unexpected direction
Scope (blog) The only treatment currently available is kidney transplantation or dialysis.” Meanwhile, while it’s increasingly clear that the primary cilium is playing an important role in the DNA damage response, what that role is remains mysterious. “Nobody has … |
Patients turn India street into unofficial cancer ward – gulfnews.com
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Patients turn India street into unofficial cancer ward
gulfnews.com Mumbai: With just a patchwork of colourful plastic sheets to shield patients from the heavy monsoon rains, a Mumbai street acts as an unofficial ward to one of India’s top cancer treatment centres. Every year, the Tata Memorial Hospital draws tens of … |
Pa. girl who fought organ donation rules expected to leave hospital this week … – Newser
NewsdayPa. girl who fought organ donation rules expected to leave hospital this week …Newser… that manages U.S. organ allocation _ added Sarah to the adult list. The case raised questions among some health specialists and medical ethicists about ho…
Physician Continuity Improves Heart Failure Outcomes – Monthly Prescribing Reference
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Physician Continuity Improves Heart Failure Outcomes
Monthly Prescribing Reference (HealthDay News) – Both early physician follow-up and continuity of physician care following an initial hospital diagnosis of heart failure improve patient outcomes, according to research published online Aug. 19 in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian … |