Lack awareness a major hurdle in organ transplantsBusiness StandardAccording to Neelam Mohan, director, department of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and liver transplantation, Medanta-The Medicity Hospital, maintaining a donor after s/he is bra…
Tammy Baldwin, 84 Dem Lawmakers Urge End to Gay Blood Donation Ban in … – Towleroad
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Tammy Baldwin, 84 Dem Lawmakers Urge End to Gay Blood Donation Ban in …
Towleroad Baldwin She sent a letter signed by 84 other Democratic lawmakers Friday to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius expressing concern that the ban “continues to perpetuate inaccurate stereotypes against gay and bisexual men and … Sen. Warren Pushes To End Blood Donation BanWBUR Quigley continues leading efforts to revise discriminatory blood donation policyChicagoPride.com Massachusetts Senator wants blood donation policies re-evaluatedWCVB Boston Gayapolis –The Hill (blog) –UPI.com all 27 news articles » |
Saving Kidney Tissue May Not Improve Survival in Renal Cancer – Cancer Network
Saving Kidney Tissue May Not Improve Survival in Renal CancerCancer NetworkUndergoing nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) for small renal masses substantially reduced the risk of moderate renal dysfunction compared with radical nephrectomy, but not that of k…
Can the Truth Come Back With a Capital 'T'? (Part 4) – Huffington Post
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Can the Truth Come Back With a Capital ‘T’? (Part 4)
Huffington Post While fMRI and EEG studies are helpful to diagnose brain death and map the activation of high level circuits associated with self-awareness or decision making, our current imaging tools still do not, in fact, answer fundamental cause and effect … |
P Chidambaram fills in Sushilkumar Shinde's shoes Rajya Sabha – Times of India
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P Chidambaram fills in Sushilkumar Shinde’s shoes Rajya Sabha
Times of India NEW DELHI: With Union home minister SushilkumarShinde away recuperating from a lung surgery at Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital, finance minister P Chidambaram will step in to help the ministers of state for home in Parliament. Ministers of state RPN … |
Solid Organ Transplant: What Vaccines Do Kids Need? – Medscape
Solid Organ Transplant: What Vaccines Do Kids Need?MedscapeIn some solid organ transplants, for example in liver transplantation, immune suppression may be weaned enough that live virus immunizations can be given after transplantation. This can only be…
Iraqi man saves his 7-month-old son by partial liver donation – Business Standard
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Iraqi man saves his 7-month-old son by partial liver donation
Business Standard That is why we went for live transplant,” Dr Vivek Vij, director of liver transplantation, Fortis hospital. “An adult man’s liver usually has eight segments. We have used two segments of Hunar’s liver which is almost 20 per cent of the entire liver for … |
Hundreds die in India for lack of organs – MorungExpress
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Hundreds die in India for lack of organs
MorungExpress Another major problem is that in India brain death itself is not recognised by many people. “People think till the heart is beating the person has to be alive. Which makes it difficult for us to harvest organs,” Misra explained. According to AIIMS … Cadaveric organ donation in India caught in bureaucratic bindThe Hindu |
Report: Democratic National Committee Tops List Of 'Deceased' Donors – CBS Local
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Report: Democratic National Committee Tops List Of ‘Deceased’ Donors
CBS Local A new analysis of Federal Election Commission filings finds that 32 “deceased” people donated more than $586,000 to congressional and presidential candidates since Jan. 1, 2009. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) … Report: Campaigns collected $600k from dead donorsCBS News Report: Dead donors gave $586KPolitico Report: Dead People Gave Almost $600K To Political Campaigns Since 2009TPM Huffington Post all 14 news articles » |
Understanding Antibodies for Medical Treatments Via Molecular Weight … – Azom.com
Azom.comUnderstanding Antibodies for Medical Treatments Via Molecular Weight …Azom.comTherapeutic recombinant antibodies, principally of the Immunoglobulin G isotype (IgG), account for a growing share of biopharmaceuticals, and a growing number of ap…