People on the lung transplant waiting list should accept lungs from smokers according to a new study.
Blood donation drive – New Straits Times
Blood donation driveNew Straits TimesKUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Red Crescent (MRC) hopes to collect 300 to 350 packs of blood during the blood donation drive at Sri Pentas today.
Doctors transplant vein grown with patient's own stem cells
For the first time, doctors have successfully transplanted a vein grown with a patient's own stem cells, another example of scientists producing human body parts in the lab. In this case, the patient was a 10-year-old girl in Sweden who was sufferi…
Medical First: Doctors Transplant Lab-Grown Vein
Scientists in Sweden are reporting a medical first: a vein grown in a lab for a 10-year-old girl, using her body's own cells. Doctors are hailing the step as a milestone in tissue engineering, a field in which doctors grow windpipes, bladders, lung…
Carondelet St. Mary's Hospital Recognized for Quality of Stroke and … – Tucson Citizen
Carondelet St. Mary's Hospital Recognized for Quality of Stroke and …Tucson CitizenThese national awards recognize St. Mary's commitment and success in implementing excellent care for heart failure and stroke by ensuring patients receive …F…
Sensitising about blood donation needed – Pakistan Daily Times
Sensitising about blood donation neededPakistan Daily TimesDailyTimes delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, entertainment, business, cricket, politics, and more. For comprehensive …Minister asks youth to donate …
Doctors Transplant Vein Grown from Patient's Own Cells
Researchers Hope to Help Dialysis, Coronary Bypass Patients
Denver Woman Sings Anew After 2nd Double Lung Transplant
Opera singer Charity Tillman-Dick has an enlarged heart, and suffers from idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, a condition that doesn't allow oxygen to be properly absorbed, causing the heart to work overtime.
A kidney transplant story, told through Twitter (the Storified version) #hcsm
I can only assume that other #hcsm fanatics were geeking out a little like I was this morning as IU Health took the Twitterverse through a four-and-a-half hour live tweet of a kidney transplant procedure. Using the hashtag #calebskidney, @IU_Health pos…
Tweeted Organ Donation A Success – 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis
93.1 WIBC IndianapolisTweeted Organ Donation A Success93.1 WIBC IndianapolisDoctors and patients are hopeful that tweeting out the organ donation surgery on the social network platform, will raise organ donation awareness, dispelling …Surgeons tweet …