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BEST samaritans at heart
Daily News & Analysis Within seconds of suffering a heart attack, he fell unconscious. Kishan Dattaram Koli, a senior attendant at the Airports Authority of India who was also in the bus, sprung into action. “When I noticed a commotion, I rushed to where Nagve was lying and … |
Woman receives kidney transplant before Christmas
The Oliver family Christmas was abruptly interrupted by a phone call on Dec. 19. An organ donor in Maine had passed away, the kidney was a match and Debbie Oliver would be getting it.
Calls for urgent action to deal with 'silent pandemic' hepatitis C – ABC Online
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Calls for urgent action to deal with ‘silent pandemic’ hepatitis C
ABC Online JACK WALLACE: Hepatitis C is currently the leading cause of liver transplantation. That’s only going to increase over time. Hepatitis C is curable in the majority of cases. It is just that people need to access treatment services to be able to get … |
New evidence for an old therapy: Fecal transplants work to treat serious intestinal infections
The half-century old medical procedure has long been a measure of last resort, its mere mention enough to make a room full of doctors wrinkle their noses and laugh like schoolchildren: When a patient suffers from a gastrointestinal infection that keeps…
Sister comes to aid of Peters woman with life-saving kidney donation – Tribune-Review
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Sister comes to aid of Peters woman with life-saving kidney donation
Tribune-Review “Donors don’t require dialysis after donations, and the hospital stay is 11⁄2 to two days and they get back to previous activity in several weeks,” said Dr. Amit D. Tevar, surgical director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at UPMC’s Thomas E … |
A city of cardiac patients if air pollution untamed – Republica
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A city of cardiac patients if air pollution untamed
Republica According to the study, the bottom five countries in the rankings from Asia were China, Pakistan, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. The stations in the aforementioned … “In the long term a person might suffer lung, heart or liver failure. There is a chain … |
Feces transplant may help relieve severe diarrhea: study
Jan 17 (Reuters) – It may sound like the most unappealingtreatment available, but a European study has concluded thatinserting fecal material from a healthy person into the gut ofsomebody with severe diarrhea may cure their problem better thanantibioti…
Hearts go waste as many die of cardiac disease – Times of India
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Hearts go waste as many die of cardiac disease
Times of India In India, only Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Kochi and Visakhapatnam have done heart transplants. Many cities like Mumbai have not done a heart transplant in several years simply because they don’t have a programme to retrieve organs from the … |
Fecal transplant may relieve severe diarrhea
It may sound like the most unappealing treatment available, but a small new study has concluded that inserting fecal material from a healthy person into the gut of someone with severe diarrhea may cure their problem more effectively than antibiotics.
Fecal transplant best cure for C. difficile, study shows
Transplant far more successful in beating infection than drugs, report in the New England Journal of Medicine shows