Porter Recognized for Successful Treatment of Heart FailurePortageLifePorter Hospital was recently awarded the Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Bronze Quality Achievement Award. Presented by the American Heart Association, the award recognizes…
Neuro patients at St. Joseph's celebrate with their medical heros – Chicago Sun-Times
Neuro patients at St. Joseph's celebrate with their medical herosChicago Sun-TimesMatthew Grotto~Sun-Times Media JOLIET — A toddler recovered from a fall that left him minutes from brain death. A 23-year-old suffering a stroke received quick inte…
Local mom shares story of organ donation – Palestine Herald Press
Local mom shares story of organ donationPalestine Herald Press“As soon as I decided Brande would be an organ donor, the doctors returned and told me Brande had already signed up as an organ donor and knowing that told me I had made the right decision…
Have your say on organ donation, urges Wrexham AM – News Wales
Have your say on organ donation, urges Wrexham AMNews WalesThe Welsh Government launched the consultation the White paper on organ donation on November the 7th last year, to allow people to have their say on how people give consent to organ donation af…
Veterinary Q&A: Food allergies – The Seattle Times
Veterinary Q&A: Food allergiesThe Seattle TimesIn cases where antibiotics are given to treat secondary infections, or oral corticosteroids for severe itchiness, the diet must be continued for a minimum of two weeks past discontinuation of these tre…
Ministers donate blood during blood donation drive – Khaleej Times
Ministers donate blood during blood donation driveKhaleej TimesSaqer Ghobash, Minister of Labor and Mariam Al Roumi, Minister of Social Affairs, were among the first who donated blood in the mobile blood donation drive which was organized by the Minist…
Proposed system for transplant kidney allocation contains bias against most … – Corpus Christi Caller Times
Proposed system for transplant kidney allocation contains bias against most …Corpus Christi Caller TimesAlmost 400000 Americans receive hemodialysis three to seven days a week, and more than 12000 undergo kidney transplantation each year. Roughly one…
Israel's Chief Rabbinate freezes plan to help determine brain death – Haaretz
HaaretzIsrael's Chief Rabbinate freezes plan to help determine brain deathHaaretzUnder dispute is the setting up of an office that would operate 24/7 helping families seeking halakhic and medical guidance in determining brain death. By Dan Even Tag…
Volunteers for heart patients required – Wishaw Press
Volunteers for heart patients requiredWishaw PressLEADING medical charity Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland are seeking volunteers to help with their pioneering heart failure support service in North Lanarkshire. The charity hope that finding Heart Failu…
Novartis moves ahead with copies of Amgen drugs – Economic Times
Novartis moves ahead with copies of Amgen drugsEconomic TimesSandoz, which has 8-10 molecules in its biosimilar pipeline, has been trying to come up with a copy of Roche's antibody drug rituximab. It has already developed its own versions of growth…