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‘Collect corneas from all accident victims’
Times of India MUMBAI: As the government dilly-dallies on an innovative measure to boost voluntary eye donation, activists want it to go a few steps more and allow eye collection from all medico-legal cases. A key reason behind the demand is the poor utilization rate … |
Monday Best Time for Hospitalization With Heart Failure, Study Says – Philly.com
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Monday Best Time for Hospitalization With Heart Failure, Study Says
Philly.com FRIDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) — Patients hospitalized for heart failure appear to have better odds of survival if they’re admitted on Mondays or in the morning, a new study finds. Death rates and length of stay are highest among heart failure … |
Common Supplement May Help Patients Fight Heart Failure – Philly.com
Common Supplement May Help Patients Fight Heart FailurePhilly.comFRIDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) — Regular doses of the dietary supplement Coenzyme Q10 cut in half the death rate of patients suffering from advanced heart failure, in a randomized doubl…
Pak man gets new heart, ready to return – Hindustan Times
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Pak man gets new heart, ready to return
Hindustan Times More than two months after he was brought to India in a critical state, Mohammad Zubair Ashmi, 40, is ready to go back to his country Pakistan, with a new heart. The heart transplant was performed on April 23 by Dr … A teacher at the local mosque in … Pakistani has a change of heart, and it’s IndianDaily News & Analysis Madrasi heart for Pakistani Madrassa teacherThe New Indian Express |
Laughter clubs get the bird – Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta Telegraph |
Laughter clubs get the bird
Calcutta Telegraph But the Haasya Yoga Club, one of four clubs whose members used to laugh their lungs out every morning at the 390-acre park in upscale Banjara Hills, wasn’t ready to grin and bear it. It moved the high court, which on Wednesday stayed the ban and … |
Jobs Affect Living Standards and Reduce Poverty: WB – Sudan Vision
Jobs Affect Living Standards and Reduce Poverty: WBSudan VisionIn some cases, the incidence is intolerably high: half of slate pencil workers in India and 37 percent of the miners in Latin America suffer from some stage of silicosis (an occupational lu…
'Dengue patients with low platelet count at risk of heart failure' – Times of India
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‘Dengue patients with low platelet count at risk of heart failure‘
Times of India Echocardiography conducted on the one patient who died showed that his heart was depressed and he had suffered a severe heart failure, even as he was receiving standard treatment for DhF,” said Dr Sengupta. The changes in the heart that occur during … |
Blood donation is valuable, so why not pay donors? – Los Angeles Times
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Blood donation is valuable, so why not pay donors?
Los Angeles Times In 18 of those 19 cases, the enticements worked — and the more the reward was worth, the more blood donation increased. The only “incentive” that was a dud was a free cholesterol test. The economists also noted that donors of blood stem cells can be … Should monetary incentives be offered for blood donation? Study says yesFox News Economic incentives increase blood donation without negative consequencesMedical Xpress Rewards and Incentives for Blood Donation WorkHealthline RedOrbit –EurekAlert (press release) –Ars Technica all 13 news articles » |
Ajax woman needs stem cell transplant – durhamregion.com
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Ajax woman needs stem cell transplant
durhamregion.com She’s one of almost 1,000 Canadians needing a stem cell transplant. Due to her African-Canadian ethnicity, a donor would most likely come from that community. On Sunday, May 26, her family and OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network are holding a … |
Death Rates Decline for Advanced Heart Failure Patients, but Outcomes Are … – Science Daily (press release)
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Death Rates Decline for Advanced Heart Failure Patients, but Outcomes Are …
Science Daily (press release) “For patients with the most advanced heart failure, treatment options used to be limited to heart transplantation — or face early death,” said study author Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, UCLA’s Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science and … |