Woman gets a new lease of lifeTimes of IndiaThe tumour had compressed the wind pipe and pushed the left lung, causing her cough and breathlessness, said doctors. On Monday, a … As the tumour grew in size it would compressed the lung and the wind pipe…
Bone marrow drive in Carmel for former resident – The Journal News | LoHud.com
Bone marrow drive in Carmel for former residentThe Journal News | LoHud.comThe disease returned four months ago, and she is in dire need of a bone marrow or stem cell transplant. The drive is being run by Delete Blood Center in New York City. The test …
Mixed Results For Spironolactone In Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection … – Forbes
Mixed Results For Spironolactone In Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection …ForbesAlthough the mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) spironolactone and eplerenone (Inspra, Pfizer) have been shown to be beneficial in patients with heart failure…
Erasing Death – Huffington Post (blog)
Erasing DeathHuffington Post (blog)Brain death, the other term commonly used to define death, is thus simply a state of irreversible and irretrievable brain damage either after someone dies due to circulatory arrest — when the heart stops beating (whi…
Spironolactone disappoints in preserved-EF heart failure: Aldo-DHF in print – TheHeart.Org
Spironolactone disappoints in preserved-EF heart failure: Aldo-DHF in printTheHeart.OrgChicago, IL – A year of aldosterone blockade failed to improve exercise capacity, symptoms, or quality-of-life measures in a placebo-controlled trial of >400 pati…
Princesses make wish come true for cancer patient – WBRC
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Princesses make wish come true for cancer patient
WBRC Most recently, she went through a stem cell transplant in December. The organization Friends by Your Side made the visit possible after the organization’s founder, Martino Cartier, heard about Emma’s story. Friends by Your Side is a national non-profit … |
Arts and entertainment calendar, week of Feb. 27 – Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Arts and entertainment calendar, week of Feb. 27Wilkes Barre Times-LeaderThe Power of Story, March 10 at the Dietrich Theater in downtown Tunkhannock at 3 p.m. Award-winning novelist and journalist Suzanne Fisher Staples, who has lived and worked in Pa…
CU prof given grant to study heart failure – Boulder County Business Report
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CU prof given grant to study heart failure
Boulder County Business Report BOULDER – University of Colorado-Boulder professor Leslie Leinwand received a $45,837 grant to study a protein that causes heart failure in adults and children. Leinwand plans to use the grant from the Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation to study the … |
In a broken health system, greed is winning – Greensboro News & Record
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In a broken health system, greed is winning
Greensboro News & Record Recchi was charged $13,702 for “1 RITUXIMAB INJ 660 MG.” That’s an injection of 660 mg of a cancer wonder drug called Rituxan. The average price paid by all hospitals for this dose is about $4,000, but MD Anderson probably gets a volume discount that … |
Velcade-Dexamethasone Plus Donor Lymphocyte Infusions In Myeloma Patients … – The Myeloma Beacon
Velcade-Dexamethasone Plus Donor Lymphocyte Infusions In Myeloma Patients …The Myeloma BeaconThe current study, however, confirms previous research showing that, even if a myeloma patient relapses after a donor stem cell transplant, there are still t…