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Nagle family has faced numerous life challenges and need community’s help
KLEW Born with a heart defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Paul and his family had to relocate to Seattle in 2011 so that he could undergo treatment and ultimately transplant surgery. “It was a 13-hour surgery,” said mother Duree Nagle. “He had … |
AbbVie's Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results – Earnings Call Transcript – Seeking Alpha
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AbbVie’s Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha This includes Daclizumab, which is in Phase III development in partnership with Biogen, for relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Data from the first of two registrational trials, the select study, were recently published in the Lancet. And results … |
US heart failure costs could skyrocket – WOWK
W*USA 9US heart failure costs could skyrocketWOWKWEDNESDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) — The number of Americans with heart failure could rise 46 percent, from 5 million in 2012 to 8 million in 2030, new research says. And the direct and indirect costs…
Heart failure costs will double by 2030, warns heart association – FierceHealthcare
W*USA 9Heart failure costs will double by 2030, warns heart associationFierceHealthcareHeart failure could cost every American taxpayer $244 per year by 2030 as costs to treat the condition double, the American Heart Association warned in a policy stat…
High alcohol intake ups chronic liver disease risk among overweight people – Zee News
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High alcohol intake ups chronic liver disease risk among overweight people
Zee News Dr. Prati said, “It`s well known that alcohol and a person`s weight are major causes of chronic liver disease however there has been a need for a large population study to compare these factors` influences on each other. Interestingly, the research … |
Mother Shares Story Of Organ Donation – KKTV – KKTV 11 News
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Mother Shares Story Of Organ Donation – KKTV
KKTV 11 News She wanted to raise awareness during National Donate Life Month. Jennifer Sheriff’s baby was born brain dead. She and her husband decided to donate their daughter’s organs. That donation saved two other babies. Jennifer says she hopes all of us think … |
Organ donation is a matter of life or death – Morehead News
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Organ donation is a matter of life or death
Morehead News April 26, 2013 — Morgan McCalvin, 26, from Ashland, said organ donation gave her a second chance at life. She was diagnosed with diabetes as a nine-year-old and now awaits her third pancreas transplant. “About four years ago I became insulin resistant … |
Autism hope in drug trial – ITV News
ITV NewsAutism hope in drug trialITV NewsA drug called Everolimus has been shown to shrink tumours in people with TSC and there is also anecdotal evidence that it improves their autism too. Trystan James, 26, from Cross Hands in Carmarthenshire has the…
Pacemaker pioneer now lives with device – CNN International
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Pacemaker pioneer now lives with device
CNN International Dr. Shumway really worked out the technique of heart transplantation (but) wasn’t able to perform it as soon as Dr. Barnard because of our restrictions here in this country on brain death. We did our first heart transplant, it was in ’67, and was … |
Pacemaker pioneer now lives with device – CNN
Pacemaker pioneer now lives with deviceCNNAnd I remember, we had the donor in one room and the recipient in the adjacent room. In those days, of course, we had restrictions as far as taking the heart from the donor, there had to be brain death before y…