Wall Street Journal Gets It Wrong on Organ DonationPolicyMicThe Wall Street Journal recently ran an article that was very critical of organ donation. The author argues that people who agree to be organ donors don't just give up their organs — the…
Quest for longevity entails paradoxes, compromises – Winnipeg Free Press
Quest for longevity entails paradoxes, compromisesWinnipeg Free PressMost disturbing is his chapter The Brain-Death Revolution, in which he suggests that the now famous Harvard Committee to Examine the Definition of Brain Death "lower[ed] the bar …
Aerocrine: BlueCross BlueShield of Florida Continues Trend, Retires Negative … – Business Wire (press release)
Aerocrine: BlueCross BlueShield of Florida Continues Trend, Retires Negative …Business Wire (press release)We will be better able to identify patients who will respond to inhaled corticosteroids and even determine in whom we may be able to decrease t…
Warden fights cancer complications – Billings Gazette
Warden fights cancer complicationsBillings GazetteLadd was headed to Seattle for stem cell bone marrow transplant surgery when an infection he was being treated for worsened. The infection started around a catheter inserted into his chest to deliver ch…
Blood donation camp organised – The Hindu
Blood donation camp organisedThe HinduEmployees and customers of Best Price Modern Wholesale store here, owned and operated by Bharti Walmart Pvt. Ltd, organised a blood donation camp at the store located near Nidamanuru on the NH-5. At the camp organi…
Health Watch: Developments emerge in treating hepatitis C – Ithaca Journal
Health Watch: Developments emerge in treating hepatitis CIthaca JournalHepatitis C is the leading cause of liver failure, for which the only viable treatment is liver transplantation. Until recently, the standard treatment for hepatitis C has been only…
Impact of chronic kidney disease continues to grow – Asheville Citizen-Times
Impact of chronic kidney disease continues to growAsheville Citizen-TimesIt is estimated that 31 million Americans have chronic kidney disease — a condition that affects people of all ages, races and backgrounds, in all areas of our country and our s…
Falcons Game 63: Falcons Dominate Pirates – The Cannon
Falcons Game 63: Falcons Dominate PiratesThe CannonMeanwhile, Paul Dainton went home to Toronto mid-week to be with his Dad who underwent lung transplant surgery. The first period was pretty much what you would have expected from a team on the cusp of …
Exercise Training Ups Post-Transplant Functional Recovery – Doctors Lounge
Exercise Training Ups Post-Transplant Functional RecoveryDoctors LoungeParticipation in supervised exercise training for three months following hospital discharge for lung transplantation significantly improves physical functions and cardiovascular mor…
Zakaria: Private health insurance is not efficient – WANE
Zakaria: Private health insurance is not efficientWANE(CNN) – At King's College Hospital in London, Dr. Nigel Heaton performs a liver transplant surgery – with a live donor. A young man is giving part of his liver to his younger brother. The liver …