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If I need a kidney, now is the time to plant the seed
If I need a kidney, now is the time to plant the seed I hope I don’t need one, but I am down to one kidney. It is healthy and medical news says that it may be possible to take DNA from a kidney, plant it into a... Organ donor change shelved
Gordon Brown has shelved plans to introduce an opt-out system of organ donation in the UK despite announcing earlier that he was in favour of trying out the scheme. He has however kept the door open to revisit the...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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138 views | 25 recommendations | 0 comments
Pig organs ‘available to patients in a decade’
Pig organs have for a long time been seen as a possibly beeing able to be used as in humans but rejection has been a problem. Now scientists have announced that using genetically modified pigs bred specifically...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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387 views | 30 recommendations | 8 comments
My Brother Needs a New Kidney, So What Do I Owe Him?
by Linda SolomonI come from a
long line of people with fatal kidney disease. The year my father died
of the disease, I dreamed of him only once. Dreaming of a dead person
is a powerful sensation. Even in the dream, I knew he was not really
with me, that his form was a hollow...
created by TheVancouverObserver | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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532 views | 22 recommendations | 3 comments
Myfortic Delayed Release Tablets Pregnancy Loss Risk FDA Warns
FDA -Warning for Women taking Myfortic Delayed- Release Tablets during pregnancy"Myfortic (mycophenolic acid) Delayed-Release Tablets [Posted 11/27/2007] Novartis and FDA informed healthcare professionals and patients that use of Myfortic Delayed- Release Tablets during... Surgeon ‘hastened death’ to harvest kidneys for transplant
"A doctor has been charged with deliberately hastening the death of a disabled man so that he could harvest his kidneys for another patient, in the first case of its kind in America.The case centres on allegations... Organs for Sale
Kidney transplant has become a lucrative trade in Lahore. For 500,000 rupees (one US dollar is equal to 60 rupees) you could get a complete package which included the purchase of a kidney, it's transplant and the hospitalisation. The Government has passed an...One year on, face transplants becomes established in lexicon of surgery ...
" PARIS (AFP) - The French doctor who a year ago pioneered the world's first face transplant says his patient is continuing to make excellent progress and says more life-enabling grafts of this kind are in the pipeline. On November 27 2005, Isabelle Dinoire, 38, became the...Cremation of Care [unusual topics]
TERROR / POLICE / BUSH / GOVERNMENT / BRITISH / IRAQ / BOMBINGEyelash transplants set to sweep nip tuck world (Reuters)
" LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Think you've seen it all when it comes to cosmetic surgery? Look more closely. Eyelash transplant surgery wants to become the new must-have procedure for women -- and the occasional man -- convinced that beauty is not so much in the eye of the...MAXINE: Tasting vs. Breathing - Investigative Report
When one goes to work in the general foods preparation marketplace, one doesn't expect that they would be working in an environment that is hazardous to one's health. Not so, according to an investigative report released by the Sacramento Bee. It turns out that working in the...Metro/Regional News - Investigative Report: Flavoring agent destroys lungs - ...
The two weren't working in a chemical or pesticide plant. Nor in a weapons plant. They didn't metal-plate, fumigate, degrease, demolish, smelt or weld. They made, of all things, artificial food flavorings....Scandal rocks human tissue industry
"AP - As a seasoned "cutter," Lee Cruceta thought he knew when it was safe to harvest human tissue from the dead for transplants to the living — and when it wasn't."detects cocaine in blood or saliva
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