PsychCentral.comControlling depression can improve health status and social functioning in …News-Medical.netControlling depression in patients with heart failure can improve health status, social functioning and quality of life, according to a new st…
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) Reduces Net Loss for Third Quarter and Nine … – The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) Reduces Net Loss for Third Quarter and Nine …The Herald | HeraldOnline.comThe European Medicines Agency's (the "EMA") Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has accepted PIX306, CTI's ongoing ra…
Organ donation holds promise for thousands – Daily News – Galveston County
Organ donation holds promise for thousandsDaily News – Galveston CountyIn fact, Galveston's own Vernon Crawford, who received a heart transplant in 2009 and was featured in The Daily News last year, received his new heart from a registered organ do…
Chronic kidney disease associated with increased risk of death regardless of age – News-Medical.net
Chronic kidney disease associated with increased risk of death regardless of ageNews-Medical.netA new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium found that chronic kidney disease a…
Close friend donates kidney
Donna Martineau is undergoing a kidney transplant surgery today. A close friend, Jeanette Smith, is donating one of her kidneys and both were expected to come through their surgeries by late today.
Junk food meals up heart attack risk – Times of India
Junk food meals up heart attack riskTimes of IndiaEating even a single junk food meal can be enough to raise the risk of suffering a heart attack, cardiovascular disease or stroke in later life, new study led by an Indian-origin researcher has warned. …
Obese teens more prone to kidney disease – Times of India
Moneycontrol.comObese teens more prone to kidney diseaseTimes of IndiaTeens in the study who were overweight at age 17 were three times more likely to have end-stage renal disease (ESRD) over the next 25 years, compared with the general population, acc…
'Brain-dead' definition flawed, says ethicist – The Age
The Age'Brain-dead' definition flawed, says ethicistThe AgeA spokesman for the intensive care society that establishes the brain death criteria (ANZICS), Associate Professor Bill Silvester, said Professor Tonti-Filippini was wrong, and potentia…
The deadly dilemma – Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
The deadly dilemmaSydney Morning Herald (blog)Tonti-Filippini and Tibbals back the existing legal definition of brain death, which is the irreversible loss of all brain function (or the irreversible cessation of circulation). They say it requires an im…
Sports and entertainment personalities to be roped as ambassadors for organ … – The Star Online
Sports and entertainment personalities to be roped as ambassadors for organ …The Star Online"We are currently in the process of identifying sports and arts personalities who are also well known for their social work to be appointed as organ dona…