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Team banding together to promote organ donation
This is Plymouth This year the campaign aims to encourage more people than ever before to join the NHS Organ Donor Register and to talk to their close family and friends about their donation wishes. And the team are backing their calls. The wristbands, which are red … Stretford and Urmston MP helps to raise awareness of organ donation for …Messenger Newspapers I’m an organ donor, see my wristbandTelegraph.co.uk Gosport MP urges people to sign up to NHS organ donor registerDaily Echo The Star –Scotsman –BBC News all 35 news articles » |
Bendamustine and Rituximab Combo Shines in Indolent Lymphoma – Medscape
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Bendamustine and Rituximab Combo Shines in Indolent Lymphoma
Medscape June 3, 2012 (Chicago, Illinois) — New long-term results from a German trial of patients with indolent and slow-growing lymphoma confirm that a simpler 2-drug combination can be used in these patients instead of a more aggressive chemotherapy approach. |
MRI May Offer Alternative for Measuring Joint Space in RA – Medscape
MRI May Offer Alternative for Measuring Joint Space in RAMedscapeThe researchers compared baseline X-ray and 1.5-Tesla MR images on 1 hand and wrist from each of 47 patients enrolled in either the Impact of Rituximab on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evide…
Prednisolone Reduces Mild, Moderate Bell's Palsy Sequelae – Medscape
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Prednisolone Reduces Mild, Moderate Bell’s Palsy Sequelae
Medscape May 24, 2012 — The anti-inflammatory drug prednisolone significantly reduces mild and moderate aftereffects of Bell’s palsy, but does not have the same benefit for patients with more severe sequelae, according to a study published in the May issue of … |
Universal HBV Screening Is Cost-Effective in Lymphoma – Medscape
Universal HBV Screening Is Cost-Effective in LymphomaMedscapeIn patients who were going to receive rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) therapy, screening all patients for HBV decreased the rate of HBV reac…
Progression-free Survival 96% in CLL With Ibrutinib – Medscape
Progression-free Survival 96% in CLL With IbrutinibMedscapeJennifer Brown, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, presented interim data on ibrutinib in combination with bendamustine…
New Equation May Help Predict Chronic Kidney Disease Risk – Medscape
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New Equation May Help Predict Chronic Kidney Disease Risk
Medscape May 8, 2012 — Compared with use of the standard Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study equation for the classification of individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), use of the new Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration … |
India Shuts Telegram Service After 162 Years – Heart
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India Shuts Telegram Service After 162 Years
Heart In the days before mobile phones and the internet, the telegram network was the main form of long-distance communication. At its peak in 1985 the state-run utility sent 600,000 telegrams a day across India but the figure has dwindled to 5,000 at … India will send its last telegram todayindiablooms Message rush as India stops telegramsHerald Sun India’s telegram service goes dark after 163 yearsNew York Post Jagran Post all 212 news articles » |
The functions of cholesterol in the body – Times of India
Times of IndiaThe functions of cholesterol in the bodyTimes of IndiaCholesterol is also used to make bile, a greenish fluid that is produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. The body needs bile to digest foods that contain fat. Bile acts as …
Initiative to beef up care for heart patients in TN – The Hindu
Initiative to beef up care for heart patients in TNThe HinduAgainst the backdrop of an estimated three million heart attacks happening every year in India, a collaborative initiative, to develop an integrated response to the management of heart attacks…