16May/13

Tissue donation – FFWD

Tissue donationFFWD… list for a kidney transplant, 94 needed a liver transplant, 57 were waiting for a new lung and 17 needed a new heart. Currently, one must sign the back of their health card in order to consent to donate their organs after brain d…

15May/13

Getting fit in middle age can reduce heart failure risk – Science Daily – Science Daily (press release)


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Getting fit in middle age can reduce heart failure risk – Science Daily
Science Daily (press release)
For each MET improvement in fitness, participants’ heart failure risk dropped by 20 percent. For example, if a 40-year-old went from jogging 12 minutes per mile to running 10 minutes per mile — an increase of two METs — he or she reduced heart
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15May/13

For-profit dialysis centers continued to use anemia drug after black box warning – MedCity News

For-profit dialysis centers continued to use anemia drug after black box warning
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It’s just that it does have side effects and people do need to be aware of them,” said Dr. Nina Tolkoff-Rubin, director of renal transplantation and hemodialysis at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Previous studies had found that for-profit

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