TIMEPanda cub died of liver failure in US zooZee News… Russia last month. The US National Zoo in Washington said Thursday that liver failure caused the recent sudden death of a six-day-old rare female panda cub, an event which captured national atten…
Sutter dropping its kidney transplants
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, will close its kidney transplant service next month to focus more
Loss of son inspires Bridgeport woman to be an activist for organ donation – Ct Post
Loss of son inspires Bridgeport woman to be an activist for organ donationCt PostDara Brooks, a volunteer with Donate Life, trains for the 5K portion of the ING Hartford marathon, which she will be running in alongside her daughter to raise awareness a…
New York State Tightens Drug Rules for Racehorses – New York Times
Albany Times UnionNew York State Tightens Drug Rules for RacehorsesNew York TimesThe new rules put limits on when horses can be given corticosteroids or other substances that can mask the pain a horse may be experiencing. In April, The Times found nume…
Cross-border aid: Indian visas for ailing children – The Express Tribune
The Express TribuneCross-border aid: Indian visas for ailing childrenThe Express TribuneThree children suffering from heart disease have finally acquired their India visas and will head to Nangpur city of Maharashtra in India. Sindh Assembly Speaker Ni…
HRT can 'cut heart attack deaths' – Halifax Evening Courier
HRT can 'cut heart attack deaths'Halifax Evening CourierThe story is based on research which found that recently menopausal women who took hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for 10 years were less likely to die or suffer heart failure or heart a…
Tagger Falls to Death on Beverly Boulevard – Patch.com
Tagger Falls to Death on Beverly BoulevardPatch.comTagger Falls to Brain Death on Beverly Boulevard. The 19-year-old man was thought to be climbing a tree to reach a building at the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and Union Place. By City News Servic…
Undertrial beaten to death in UP – Times of India
Undertrial beaten to death in UPTimes of IndiaS S Yadav, one of the doctors who conducted the postmortem, said the damage to the liver could have been caused by internal injuries, leading to the victim's death. Jail superintendent R N Upadhyaya sai…
Blood donation camp – The News International
Blood donation campThe News InternationalBahria University hosted a blood donation camp with PNS Hafeez at Islamabad Campus in collaboration with AFIT, Rawalpindi. Students of the university overwhelmingly participated and donated blood for the noble c…
Single Gene Variant in Donors May Affect Survival of Transplanted Kidneys
* In the largest study of its kind, a variant within the multidrug resistance 1 (MDR-1) gene in kidney transplant donors was linked to a 69% increased risk for long-term failure of transplanted organs. * This variant affects the expression of the prote…