The Burden of Liver Disease IncreasesPR Newswire (press release)The work of our members has been at the forefront of liver transplantation and has laid the foundation for the development of drugs used to treat patients with viral hepatitis. The most re…
Safe air should be there for all of us to share – Scoop.co.nz (press release)
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Safe air should be there for all of us to share
Scoop.co.nz (press release) Engineer Amitabh Pande, who had been involved in consulting for implementation of Kyoto Protocol related systems in the Asia-pacific region, rues that, “India is at the bottom of a list of 132 countries when it comes to air quality. … According to … |
County Clerk Organ Donor Foundation Reaches $4 Million – The Chattanoogan
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County Clerk Organ Donor Foundation Reaches $4 Million
The Chattanoogan Hamilton County Clerk Bill Knowles, one of the founding board members of the Tennessee County Clerks Organ Donor Awareness Foundation, announced the foundation has reached the $4 million mark in donations since its inception in 1996. “Mr. Knowles … |
Is sugar really toxic? – Salon
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Is sugar really toxic?
Salon Sugarcane cultivation spread to India, where by 500 BC people had learned to turn bowls of the tropical grass’s juice into crude crystals. From there sugar traveled with … In studies with animals and people by Kimber Stanhope of the University of … |
French national's organs harvested – The Hindu
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French national’s organs harvested
The Hindu In the past four years of the State government launching the cadaver transplant programme, quite a few foreigners have received organs from Indian donors. Djealatchoumy’s was the rare instance of organ donation by a foreign national, an official said. |
23rd annual report: Top 100 medicine highlights – PharmaLive (press release) (subscription)
23rd annual report: Top 100 medicine highlightsPharmaLive (press release) (subscription)Roche reported Rituxan/MabThera (rituximab) sales of SFr1.7 billion during first-quarter 2013, up 6 percent compared to 1Q 2012. Sales improved due to increased use…
Air pollution's deadly toll: More than 2 million people each year – ITworld.com
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Air pollution’s deadly toll: More than 2 million people each year
ITworld.com … (93%) and lung cancer (7%). Air pollution tends to be worse in high-population areas such as China and India. … impact around the world. In a study of lung cancer cases across Europe, researchers concluded that any kind of air pollution is dangerous. Air Pollution Kills Over Two And A Half Million People Every YearThinkProgress Childhood Asthma And Autism Linked To Air Pollution: Children And Fetuses …Medical Daily Air pollution is killing as many as 2.4 million people each yearQuartz |
Researchers suggest new model to make organ allocation more equitable – The Hub at Johns Hopkins
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Researchers suggest new model to make organ allocation more equitable
The Hub at Johns Hopkins His situation brought national attention to the large geographic disparities in liver transplantation. “Some geographic areas have very good access to donated organs and some have desperate gaps between organ supply and organ demand,” says co-author … |
Capital Fringe 2013: Nephrectomy – DCist.com
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Capital Fringe 2013: Nephrectomy
DCist.com 2013_07_15_nephrectomy.jpg You know you’re at Fringe Fest when the best part of the show is when someone loses a kidney. As the title indicates, Nephrectomy is a dark comedy about three mall employees with borderline personalities and a penchant for … |
George Zimmerman Shouldn't Have Had A Gun – Raw Story
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George Zimmerman Shouldn’t Have Had A Gun
Raw Story It’s hard for me to post on the outcome of the George Zimmerman trial without just repeating what everyone else has said about racism, our screwed up court systems, the lack of regard for the lives of young black men. Absent racism, there would be no … |