'Ambassadors' know about organ donation first-handDelaware NewsA Grove City couple is being recognized for their work and volunteer efforts to give life to others through organ donation. Andy and Mary Furr were recently named the 2011 Ambassado…
Hope Rises for Stem Cell Therapy to Cure Heart Failure – French Tribune
French TribuneHope Rises for Stem Cell Therapy to Cure Heart FailureFrench TribuneIt was found after a Phase II study on heart failure. It was made public on Monday at an American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, Florida. Backed by Mesoblast Ltd. …
ANN ARBOR: 'Be a Hero at the Big House' promotes organ, blood donation (with … – Heritage Newspapers
Heritage NewspapersANN ARBOR: 'Be a Hero at the Big House' promotes organ, blood donation (with …Heritage NewspapersSince age 5, the liver-transplant recipient has been an active volunteer, working to promote organ donation throughout the sta…
Vifor Pharma CellCept proven superior to azathioprine in study – Pharmaceutical Business Review
Vifor Pharma CellCept proven superior to azathioprine in studyPharmaceutical Business ReviewVifor Pharma's mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept) has proven its superiority over azathioprine (Imuran) in the maintenance therapy of lupus nephritis, as evid…
FIELD HOCKEY: Doughty makes big save ā a stranger's life – Kennebec Journal
FIELD HOCKEY: Doughty makes big save ā a stranger's lifeKennebec JournalSeveral years ago, one of Doughty's family members was battling cancer and survived because of a stem cell transplant. Not long after, she volunteered at a donation drive…
Fundraiser focuses on organ donation awareness – Alberta Daily Herald Tribune
Fundraiser focuses on organ donation awarenessAlberta Daily Herald TribuneIt's been five years since Andrea Vavrek was able to carry out her wish to be an organ donor and her family continues to honour her convictions with an annual fundraiser in h…
Call to make blood donation a people's movement – MorungExpress
Call to make blood donation a people's movementMorungExpressAccountant General, Nagaland VK Girijavallabhan donates blood at the Blood donation camp at the office of the Accountant General, Kohima. (Photo Courtesy/Office of the ACCOUNTANT GENERAL) …
Elderly kidneys viable for donations – Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Elderly kidneys viable for donationsJohns Hopkins News-LetterOftentimes the transplanted kidney comes in the form of deceased donor kidney transplantation (a situation where a kidney becomes available from an individual who has volunteered their organs…
Nurses' 'lack of trust in diagnosis' presents barrier to organ donation – Nursing Times
Nurses' 'lack of trust in diagnosis' presents barrier to organ donationNursing TimesLess than half of nurses trusted clinical diagnoses of brain death without a confirmatory cerebral angiography, while 25% of respondents indicated that mech…
Adage Capital's Top Q3 Healthcare Sector Stock Holdings – Wall St. Cheat Sheet
Adage Capital's Top Q3 Healthcare Sector Stock HoldingsWall St. Cheat SheetThe Company's products and experimental therapies address cancer, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis, organ transplant rejection and psyc…