French TribuneCongestive heart failure a serious conditionBonner County Daily BeeAccording the Centers for Disease Control, about 5.7 million Americans have heart failure and half of them will die within five years of diagnosis. Something to take serio…
200 waiting for organ donation in NI – U.TV
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200 waiting for organ donation in NI
U.TV As part of the From the Heart campaign, UTV has been looking at the issue of organ donation in Northern Ireland – where 200 people are waiting for a transplant – and hearing the stories of those whose lives have been saved and those still waiting. New campaign hopes to get people talking about organ donationstv.tv ‘Very few contraindications’ to organ donationITV News End the donor crisis: Brave young man who inspired our organ donor campaign …Daily Mail Coronation Street Blog (blog) –IBTimes.co.uk –TopNews New Zealand all 57 news articles » |
Public divided on 'presumed consent' organ donation – ITV News
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Public divided on ‘presumed consent’ organ donation
ITV News Public opinion is firmly divided on whether organ donation should be opt-in, as it currently is in the UK, or opt-out, as it is in many other European countries, according to an ITV News poll by ComRes. Older people are more likely to agree with the … |
Thoratec And Heartware Vying For Leadership In Implantable Heart Failure … – Seeking Alpha
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Thoratec And Heartware Vying For Leadership In Implantable Heart Failure …
Seeking Alpha Heart failure is a major issue. It’s estimated that nearly six million people in the U.S. alone suffer from the disease and more than 600,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. About 300,000 Americans die of heart failure every year. Drugs help manage … |
Synthetic marijuana use can lead to acute kidney injury – NephrologyNews.com
Synthetic marijuana use can lead to acute kidney injuryNephrologyNews.comThe authors report that nephrotoxicity from designer drugs, such as SPICE or K2, should be considered when a patient presents with acute kidney injury and no other evident cause. …
2 top players in implantable heart devices – MSN Money
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2 top players in implantable heart devices
MSN Money Perhaps there’s no better time than around Valentine’s Day to examine affairs of the heart, specifically the performance and prospects for the two companies making implantable devices to treat heart failure: Thoratec (THOR) and its chief rival … |
Biotech Focus Tracking the Oncology Pipeline – OncLive
OncLiveBiotech Focus Tracking the Oncology PipelineOncLiveIn a second study, researchers sought to accelerate response to ibrutinib by pairing the drug with rituximab in 40 patients with CLL/SLL (median age, 65 years) considered high risk. In all, 38 o…
Outdoor air pollution fifth largest killer in India – Daily News & Analysis
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Outdoor air pollution fifth largest killer in India
Daily News & Analysis These diseases include stroke (25.48%), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (17.32%), ischemic heart disease (48.6%), lower respiratory infections (6.4%), and trachea, bronchus and lung cancer (2.02%). India shows the greatest impacts of outdoor air … Air pollution emerging as biggest cause of deaths in IndiaHindustan Times Delhi pollution leaves schoolchildren gasping for airDaily Pioneer |
Regulatory effect of calcineurin inhibitor, tacrolimus, on IL-6/sIL-6R … – 7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Regulatory effect of calcineurin inhibitor, tacrolimus, on IL-6/sIL-6R …7thSpace Interactive (press release)IntroductionThis study investigated whether the calcineurin inhibitor, tacrolimus, suppresses receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) e…
Pharmacyclics First to Announce Breakthrough Therapy Designation in … – Sacramento Bee
Pharmacyclics First to Announce Breakthrough Therapy Designation in …Sacramento BeeA Phase II single-arm study of ibrutinib as a monotherapy in patients with MCL who received at least one prior rituximab-containing chemotherapy regimen and who progre…