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Medic honoured – Boston bombing almost derailed Celiwe’s surgery
Johannesburg Sunday World There was a media frenzy at Garden City Hospital in Joburg on Thursday ahead of Mia’s second successful skin-transplant surgery, on five-year-old Celiwe Maseko of Kagiso, on the West Rand. The historic first operation was done on three-year-old Pippie … |
Yourwellness Magazine Explores Myths Behind Breast Cancer – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Yourwellness Magazine Explores Myths Behind Breast CancerDigitalJournal.com (press release)The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recently published provisional draft guidance which does not recommend the drug everolimus (…
Report Calls for Tougher Measures to Fight TB – AllAfrica.com
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Report Calls for Tougher Measures to Fight TB
AllAfrica.com “The current decline in TB rate is two per cent globally every year,” said Dr Christian Lienhardt of WHO Stop TB Department at the 4th Union Asia Pacific Region Conference on Lung Health (APRC 2013) which recently concluded in Hanoi, Viet Nam. Dr … |
Pool Safety Consultant Offers Free Ebook to the World – Gilmer Mirror
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Pool Safety Consultant Offers Free Ebook to the World
Gilmer Mirror For every person who dies from drowning 5 more are hospitalized for ‘immersion accidents’. Some of those children suffer permanent brain damage, ranging from partial immobility to Total Vegetative State and brain death, with the victim needing lifelong … |
Sunday Arts calendar (April 28) – Kansas.com
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Sunday Arts calendar (April 28)
Kansas.com Free; donations accepted. Call 316-259-0467. “We Sing That Others May Live,” presented by Kansas Mennonite Men’s Chorus, 7 p.m. Sun., Central Community Church, 6100 Maple. Free. Offering will be taken for world hunger relief. Call 316-680-9031 or 316 … |
Review: 'Tales from the Organ Trade' gets inside the controversy Special – DigitalJournal.com
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Review: ‘Tales from the Organ Trade’ gets inside the controversy Special
DigitalJournal.com While there is a need for many non-vital organs, kidneys are the most popular trade. Impoverished people from developing countries, such as India and the Philippines, see kidney donation as an opportunity to improve their lives while helping someone in … |
Cancer threat thwarts kidney donation – Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
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Cancer threat thwarts kidney donation
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette The couple’s friend, Claudia Lennhoff, offered to be Anna’s kidney donor, and plans were progressing for the transplant surgery to take place in May or June, they said. Then the Wahbas and Lennhoff had more bad news. Earlier this month, Lennhoff, 47, … |
Greek clerics oppose law that eases restrictions on organ donations – Kathimerini
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Greek clerics oppose law that eases restrictions on organ donations
Kathimerini The Orthodox Church has not been as outspoken about the bill in public though several clerics have challenged the concept of “brain death,” with some describing it as an “ideological construct for the promotion of organ transplants,” Kathimerini … |
KMC docs treat heart patient with a 'plug' – Times of India
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KMC docs treat heart patient with a ‘plug’
Times of India MANIPAL: Doctors at KMC, Manipal, have successfully treated a 24-year-old man who was diagnosed with ruptured sinus of valsalva (RSOV) in the right ventricle – a communication between aorta and right side of the heart. The patient from Darjeeling, West … |
Bulgarian cities join blood donation campaign – Focus News
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Bulgarian cities join blood donation campaign
Focus News More and more district cities join the free and voluntary blood donation campaign on Palm Sunday, announced the press center of the Bulgarian Ministry of Healthcare. The event is part of this year’s spring campaign for encouraging voluntary blood … |