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Heart transplant recipient makes organ donation her mission
Las Vegas Review-Journal Back in the hospital, she was put her on the organ donor waiting list. “You have a mixed bag of emotions,” she said. “You need an organ to live, but you know someone’s going to have to die in order for that to happen. I came to the resolve that people … |
Loyola Performs Record Number of Liver Transplants in FY 13 – Newswise (press release)
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Loyola Performs Record Number of Liver Transplants in FY 13
Newswise (press release) Loyola’s dedicated liver transplant team is headed by surgeon Amy Lu, MD, division director of Intra-Abdominal Transplantation, and hepatologist Jamie Berkes, MD, medical director of Liver Transplantation. Dr. Lu, one of the top liver transplant … |
New Studies Link Air Pollution to Lung Cancer and Heart Failure – Ring of Fire
New Studies Link Air Pollution to Lung Cancer and Heart FailureRing of FireAir pollution is causing serious negative health effects and is linked to lung cancer and heart failure, according to two new studies, The Guardian reports. Both studies were pu…
Gay men protest blood donation ban – kgw.com
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Gay men protest blood donation ban
kgw.com PORTLAND – Protesters around the country Thursday demonstrated against a ban that prohibits gay men from donating blood. In the mid-1980s the FDA banned gay men from giving blood in order to lessen the spread of diseases. The LGBT community has … Gay men plan protest Friday against blood donation banIndianapolis Star Gay Men Plan Blood Donation ProtestKaiser Health News Blood donation restrictions, trends; ‘gay ban’ is not the only banDixie Press Online KCRG –WRTV Indianapolis all 58 news articles » |
Beta-blockers in HF get bum rap for most "side effects," says study – TheHeart.Org
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Beta-blockers in HF get bum rap for most “side effects,” says study
TheHeart.Org Watford, UK – By a wide margin, most adverse side effects attributed to beta-blockers in randomized, controlled heart-failure trials weren’t significantly more common with the drugs than they were with placebo, conclude researchers based on a meta … |
Backpackers' diaries: riding into Madhya Pradesh, the heart of India – The Guardian
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Backpackers’ diaries: riding into Madhya Pradesh, the heart of India
The Guardian In my first proper week on the road, I have travelled south via Agra to Gwalior. Heat is the enemy, mid-40Cs by noon; so I leave Gwalior for Orchha at 5am. Much of the highway is under construction, diversions a pain in the posterior. As a result, I … |
Former PM Marich Man diagnosed with lung cancer – Himalayan Times
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Former PM Marich Man diagnosed with lung cancer
Himalayan Times KATHMANDU: The family of Panchayat era prime minister Marich Man Singh Shrestha has sought government’s help for Shrestha’s cancer treatment. The former prime minister is undergoing treatment for lung cancer at Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon, India. |
Villain with heart of Sher Khan no more – Times of India
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Villain with heart of Sher Khan no more
Times of India Few, if any, would have named their son Pran in the 1950s and 1960s. That’s the kind of impact the Delhi-born actor, who passed away at Mumbai’s Lilawati Hospital on Friday evening, had on popular consciousness during his hey days as the villain no 1 … |
For fairer transplants, 'gerrymander' maps – Futurity: Research News
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For fairer transplants, ‘gerrymander’ maps
Futurity: Research News His situation brought national attention to the large geographic disparities in liver transplantation. Segev, a transplant surgeon, says that if a patient from San Francisco or New York City needed a liver transplant, it would be difficult to recommend … |
Interspecies Transplant Works – Without Immunosuppressive Drugs – Science 2.0
Interspecies Transplant Works – Without Immunosuppressive DrugsScience 2.0Using their new method of xenotransplantation, the islets survived without immunosuppressive drugs. For people with hard-to-control type 1 diabetes, a transplant of insulin-produ…