GUEST VIEWPOINT: Registering as an organ donor might save lives of othersThe Register-GuardThe Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank estimates that more than 7,500 Americans donate to organ banks each year. Yet every year thousands of people languish on or…
UML Chair Khanal at Alka over kidney ailment – Himalayan Times
UML Chair Khanal at Alka over kidney ailmentHimalayan Times“CPN-UML Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal has been hospitalised at Lalitpur-based Alka Hospital at 8 am today duo to complaints of stone sitting in kidney. A team of uro-surgeons including Dr. Suma…
Hookah as toxic to lungs as cigarettes – India Today
India TodayHookah as toxic to lungs as cigarettesIndia TodayHere is one more reason to crackdown on those hookah bars in the capital. Scientists have found that smoking a hookah or water pipe damages your lungs in the same way as a cigarette does, rubb…
Priyanka Chopra is desi at heart – Times of India
Priyanka Chopra is desi at heartTimes of India… with an international label, but at heart, she still is a desi girl. While the first music video of her debut album that releases on September 13, has a global feel to it, on the actress' insistence…
'Mortgages are where HSBC needs to ramp up numbers' – Daily News & Analysis
'Mortgages are where HSBC needs to ramp up numbers'Daily News & AnalysisIn an interview with Vishwanath Nair, he talks about how the London-based lender sees India's banking climate and says the regulator, RBI, has the heart in the right pl…
Kick that butt, ladies – Hindustan Times
Hindustan TimesKick that butt, ladiesHindustan TimesAccording to the latest edition of a research called Tobacco Atlas, which is conducted by the World Lung Foundation, India is placed third in the list of top 20 female. smoking populations in the worl…
Not even 50 donors at eye donation camp – Times of India
Not even 50 donors at eye donation campTimes of IndiaThe objective is to create mass awareness regarding eye donation after death, so that more corneal transplantation may be performed to restore the eyesight of visually challenged persons. Talking to …
Biomarker for heart failure identified – UPI.com
Biomarker for heart failure identifiedUPI.comGalactin-3 has recently been associated with cardiac fibrosis, a condition in which scar tissue replaces heart muscle, and cardiac fibrosis plays an important role in the development of heart failure, Levy s…
Blood donation saves Bacchus Marsh seaman – Melton Leader
Melton LeaderBlood donation saves Bacchus Marsh seamanMelton LeaderHe has also been named the Navy's blood ambassador for 2012 in the Defence Blood Challenge Defence Blood Challenge. The challenge is Australia's largest annual blood donation ev…
Ohio family, Erie hospital settle suit over teen's organ donation – GoErie.com
Ohio family, Erie hospital settle suit over teen's organ donationGoErie.comMichael Jacobs discussed organ donation with his wife, and Michael Jacobs signed a consent form that allowed C.O.R.E. to harvest the organs, Hamot said in a pretrial stateme…