Hospital wins heart association awardMarion StarMARION – Marion General Hospital has received the Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. This recognition signifies Marion General Hospit…
Secretary of State visits area to promote organ donation – Hometownlife.com
Secretary of State visits area to promote organ donationHometownlife.comCenter, and one of the top Secretary of State offices for organ donor sign-ups. The press conference promoted Donate Life Month and the need for potential organ donors to register,…
Franklin mom fights side-effects of stem cell treatment – Wicked Local
Franklin mom fights side-effects of stem cell treatmentWicked LocalHer problems come from a stem cell transplant in 2009 meant to cure a previously well-managed cancer that became suddenly aggressive toward the end of her pregnancy with her son, Justin…
Synta – Exploring Galaxy And Beyond – NASDAQ
Synta – Exploring Galaxy And BeyondNASDAQ… ovarian cancer and under a phase I trial for acute myeloid leukemia; STA-9584 under preclinical development for prostate cancer and CRACM channel inhibitors, also under preclinical testing for chronic inflam…
Blood Donation Should Be in the MPs Agenda in Dodoma – AllAfrica.com
Blood Donation Should Be in the MPs Agenda in DodomaAllAfrica.com"As part of helping people, many volunteers decided to donate their blood to NBTS through the Mnazi Mmoja Hospital Blood donation team," said the Resident Representative of Kore…
Death for a life: inside the donor dilemma – Gloucester Advocate
Death for a life: inside the donor dilemmaGloucester AdvocateThe real bottleneck, in Bendorf's assessment, is that relatively fewer Australians are treated in intensive care units right through to the point of brain death – when no activity can be …
Murder or Compassion? – Chabad.org
Chabad.orgMurder or Compassion?Chabad.orgA Harvard ad hoc committee solved the problem by crafting the term brain death. This criterion stops short of calling the patient dead; it merely states that the brain stem has ceased to function. But it did not…
Kal Tire founder Tom Foorde, 89, succumbs to heart failure – The Province
Tire BusinessKal Tire founder Tom Foorde, 89, succumbs to heart failureThe ProvinceFoord died Thursday in Vernon of a heart failure, just a month shy of his 90th birthday. He is survived by five children, including son Robert, now president of Kal Tire…
Organ donation advocate takes first steps following double lung transplant – Winnipeg Free Press
CBC.caOrgan donation advocate takes first steps following double lung transplantWinnipeg Free PressTORONTO – An Ottawa woman whose high-profile pitch for organ donation has tugged at celebrity heartstrings took a big leap foward Saturday in her own per…
Number of Scots on Organ Donor Register hits record high – BBC News
BBC NewsNumber of Scots on Organ Donor Register hits record highBBC NewsA total of 2025400 people had put their names forward for the NHS Organ Donor Register as of 31 March – almost 40% of the population. However, 600 people are still awaiting life-sa…