IFFLA 2013 Review: SHIP OF THESEUS [De]Constructs Identity BiologicallyTwitchThe final story is that of Naveen, a hard-nosed kidney transplant recipient who becomes obsessed with the illegal organ trade in India and has to confront his own notions of o…
Organ Request OK Before End of Life Decision – National Review Online (blog)
Organ Request OK Before End of Life DecisionNational Review Online (blog)One involves brain death, and one involves removing life support, waiting for cardiac arrest, and then procuring organs after a few minutes. This post deals with the latter. I hav…
Gene suppression offers ideas for treating liver failure – Medill Reports: Chicago
Medill Reports: ChicagoGene suppression offers ideas for treating liver failureMedill Reports: ChicagoGene suppression offers ideas for treating liver failure. by Andrew Holik Apr 11, 2013. German researchers have found a gene in mice that if suppresse…
Death of fiancée sparks passion for organ donation – Medill Reports: Chicago
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Death of fiancée sparks passion for organ donation
Medill Reports: Chicago Printer Icon Printer-Friendly Version · Mail Icon E-mail This Story. FeliciaLee. Rebecca Halleck/MEDILL. Felicia Lee, regional coordinator for the Illinois Organ/Tissue Donor Program, talks to passerbys about organ donation at Stroger Hospital Thursday. |
Study illuminates biology behind promising therapy for graft-versus-host disease – HealthCanal.com
Study illuminates biology behind promising therapy for graft-versus-host diseaseHealthCanal.com… Science Translational Medicine, the researchers detail how low doses of the drug interleukin-2 (IL-2) can alleviate chronic graft-versus-host disease (GV…
SLIDESHOW: Organ donor celebration – WDRB
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SLIDESHOW: Organ donor celebration
WDRB They’re not going to be any use to you once you’re gone. You can help so many other people that you don’t even know.” If you would like more information about organ donation, you can go to the website for Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates, KODA, which is … |
Ethical Perspectives – Ashland Daily Tidings
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Ethical Perspectives
Ashland Daily Tidings … family and friends recreated in robotic forms — and programmed to be slightly more lovable or well-read — “Quietus” foresees a time when bodies can be kept functioning after brain death for use in medical, scientific — or perhaps less-ethical … |
health benefits of beetroot – iDiva.com
iDiva.comhealth benefits of beetrootiDiva.comApart from being a fantastic source of digestive fibre, tests have shown that beets might be able to fight cancers of the colon, stomach, lung, breast and prostate. The beet zone. In India, beetroots are nor…
Revered U.S. Army chaplain Emil Kapaun receives Medal of Honor posthumously – Detroit Free Press
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Revered U.S. Army chaplain Emil Kapaun receives Medal of Honor posthumously
Detroit Free Press Everyone knows the story of the modest farm kid who became an Army chaplain in 1944, served two years along the India-Burma border and returned to the military in 1948 for a second stint — dying at age 35 in captivity in Korea. Today, there’s a … |
'Toon Out Cancer' at Relay for Life this weekend – Dinuba Sentinel
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‘Toon Out Cancer’ at Relay for Life this weekend
Dinuba Sentinel She was later transferred to the University of San Francisco Medical Center for still more chemotherapy — a prelude to a blood stem cell transplant. First, specialists made absolutely sure all the cancer had been eradicated from her blood. Then they … |