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Balloon release for kidney disease awareness
The Advertiser, UK Graciano Masauso, of Mawkin Close, Bowthorpe, organised the event at The Forum for World Kidney Day, which included an exhibition, information, screening, games and a balloon release. Mr Masauso, 35, thought he was going to die when both his kidneys … |
Brunei to celebrate World Kidney Day this Sunday – Borneo Bulletin
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Brunei to celebrate World Kidney Day this Sunday
Borneo Bulletin, Brunei Darussalam By Aziz Idris World Kidney Day is celebrated every year on the second Thursday of March. This year, more than 100 countries observed World Kidney Day on March 12. The global health awareness campaign focuses on the importance of our kidneys and … |
Women donate kidneys to each other’s husbands – Times of India
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Women donate kidneys to each other’s husbands
Times of India, India Having unrelated donors also meant that special permission would be required. As per the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, kidney donors can be the patient’s spouse or a blood relative. If the donor and recipient are not related, … |
Resident goes under knife for World Kidney Day – TheDoings-ClarendonHills.com
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Resident goes under knife for World Kidney Day
TheDoings-ClarendonHills.com, IL By coincidence, March 12 is also World Kidney Day. A global health awareness campaign, World Kidney Day emphasizes the importance of the kidney, and reducing the global impact of kidney disease. "It's really a day of awareness," Barofsky said. … |
Laparoscopic and Open Partial Nephrectomy: A Matched-Pair … – UroToday
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Laparoscopic and Open Partial Nephrectomy: A Matched-Pair …
UroToday, CA To compare surgical, oncologic, and functional outcomes after laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) and open partial nephrectomy (OPN). We undertook matched-pair (age, sex, tumour size) analysis of patients who underwent elective NSS for renal masses … |
Group Proposes Organ Donors Be Compensated – News Channel 8
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Group Proposes Organ Donors Be Compensated
News Channel 8, DC For deceased donors, the foundation suggests covering funeral costs for the donor's family. "We think there is enough money being spent in the system right now to cover all of these things. For instance, dialysis costs $71000 a year. … |
Cornea Transplants Restored Sight To 600 Missourians – eMaxHealth.com
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Cornea Transplants Restored Sight To 600 Missourians
eMaxHealth.com, NC Eyesight was restored last year to 640 Missourians who received cornea transplants made possible through eye tissue donation. “Cornea transplants significantly improve the quality of life for hundreds of Missourians every year,” said Margaret Donnelly, … |
Immune system 'atlas' will speed detection of kidney transplant … – The Virtual Medical Centre
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Immune system 'atlas' will speed detection of kidney transplant …
The Virtual Medical Centre, Australia Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital have devised a new way to decode the immune signals that cause slow, chronic rejection of all transplanted kidneys. They’ve created an immune-system “atlas” … |
Couple scarred in Egytian illegal organ trade – China Daily
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Couple scarred in Egytian illegal organ trade
China Daily, China … allows deceased donations, limiting the need for living donors. Past attempts at legislation have failed partly because of religious and cultural resistance to taking organs from the dead, though many other Muslim countries allow deceased donation. |
First Reported Case In The World: 7-Year-Old Girl Has Six Organs … – Science Daily (press release)
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First Reported Case In The World: 7-Year-Old Girl Has Six Organs …
Science Daily (press release) In addition, he helped pioneer a procedure called APOLT (auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation) that resuscitates a failing liver by attaching a partial donor liver, making lifelong immunosuppressant drugs unnecessary; and the first … |