Scientists back drug for lungs blockageNewstrack IndiaWashington, Feb 24 (IANS) Scientists have backed clot-busting drug for pulmonary embolism, a potentially deadly blockage of lung arteries, caused by blood clots that travel from elsewhere in the bod…
Academy Awards: And another Mainer hoping for a piece of the Oscar 'Pi' – Press Herald
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Academy Awards: And another Mainer hoping for a piece of the Oscar ‘Pi’
Press Herald Because of his ongoing battle to recover from leukemia — he had a stem cell transplant last June, and was hospitalized for complications earlier this year — Callahan’s immune system is too fragile to allow him to travel to the Oscars in Los Angeles … |
Public awareness critical to promoting culture of multi-organ transplant in … – The News International
Public awareness critical to promoting culture of multi-organ transplant in …The News InternationalThe success of the initiative now hinges on building public awareness so that popular myths about cadaveric donation are dispelled, and more and more p…
AGAINST FORGETTING: You've Come a Long Way, Baby (Or Have You?) The … – Berkeley Daily Planet
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AGAINST FORGETTING: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (Or Have You?) The …
Berkeley Daily Planet As it happened, the only equality this campaign ended up supporting involved lung cancer. Today …. The daytime brutal rape and killing of a 23-year-old in India last December prompted the first international protest around violence against women … |
Cyclists to support raising organ donation awareness – The Sunshine Coast Daily
Cyclists to support raising organ donation awarenessThe Sunshine Coast DailyA RECORD field of bikes is expected today as the eighth annual Cycle of Giving starts, marking the beginning of DonateLife Week. The ride, which raises awareness of organ and t…
Damon Harris Dead: Former Temptations Singer Dies At 62 – Huffington Post
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Damon Harris Dead: Former Temptations Singer Dies At 62
Huffington Post The manager for Hemsley says the late star of the television sitcom “”The Jeffersons”” refused treatment for lung cancer in the weeks before he died of what a coroner says were complications from the disease on July 24, 2012. (AP photo/Nick Ut, File … |
Blood Bank issues urgent call for blood donation of all types – Gozo News
Gozo NewsBlood Bank issues urgent call for blood donation of all typesGozo NewsBlood Bank issues urgent call for blood donation of all types The Blood Bank has issued an urgent request for blood donors. The bank said that blood banks are low and there …
Mindy McCready's Funeral Set For Tuesday In Florida – Huffington Post
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Mindy McCready’s Funeral Set For Tuesday In Florida
Huffington Post The manager for Hemsley says the late star of the television sitcom “”The Jeffersons”” refused treatment for lung cancer in the weeks before he died of what a coroner says were complications from the disease on July 24, 2012. (AP photo/Nick Ut, File … |
Nargileh culture under threat of becoming history in Turkey – Middle East Online
Middle East OnlineNargileh culture under threat of becoming history in TurkeyMiddle East OnlinePopular in much of the Middle East and parts of Asia, the water pipe goes by a number of names including hookah in India and Pakistan and shisha in Egypt, de…
A child's struggle inspires drive for cure – CNN International
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A child’s struggle inspires drive for cure
CNN International Under his care in 2010, Rafi was the eighth child in the world to undergo a stem cell transplant for treatment of EB. While it hasn’t cured her symptoms, the treatment was a success at the cellular level, as her bone marrow now produces the collagen … |